“The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC,” reports Axios.
Nvidia’s CEO unveiled a new ARM-based “N1X processor made alongside Microsoft,” reports CNBC, that “will be incorporated into a new RTX Spark superchip, debuting i…
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks “had a mere capacity of 1.44MB,” remembers XDA Developers, “which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about.”
Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while w…
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks “had a mere capacity of 1.44MB,” remembers XDA Developers, “which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about.”
Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while w…
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Futurism:
China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth’s regular gravity.
The futuristic-looking m…
“Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla’s browser now makes even more extensive use of AI,” writes the Register, “providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions.”
Firefox 142 brings …
“It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam,” writes this report from ScienceDaily, “and hurtling through space at the speed of light toward a black hole, on a mission to probe the very fabric o…
While college applicants are often required to write a personal essay for their applications, political scientist/author/academic Yascha Mounk argues that’s “a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against …
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
Neurotech startup Precision Neuroscience on Thursday announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major win for the four-ye…
Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, “after a passenger could not locate their cellphone.”
Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and becaus…
“The early web was fun,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. “It was weird. It was community-driven. It’s time to rebuild that.
“Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg.”
The amount of that purchase is “undisclos…