Nvidia can barely sell its best chips in China. A crop of local challengers is racing to fill the gap. One of them just raised nearly $900m to speed up. Shanghai Biren Technology is selling HK$7 billion (about $892.5m) of new shares to boost GPU production…Continue Reading
An illustration of the newly discovered exoplanet Gaia23bra b. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system. The technique relies on a phenomenon introduced by Einstein in his 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity, called gravitational microlensing.Continue Reading
An illustration of a black hole at the heart of a dust cloud blasting out neutrinos. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Mysterious “little red dots” discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy cosmic “ghost particles” through the cosmos. Neutrinos are referredContinue Reading
Jagger, 82, told the publication that he attempted to use AI to help come up with a title for the Rolling Stones’ most recent album, 2023’s “Hackney Diamonds.”, Jagger, 82, told the publication that he attempted to use AI to help come up with a title for the Rolling Stones’Continue Reading
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business. The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganization designed to “reset” Xbox as it facesContinue Reading
In Larry Sanger’s recent failed attempt to start a “WikiProject Intellectual Diversity”, he tried to recruit his followers to help him change Wikipedia’s rules around representation of viewpoints, religions, parties, and nationalities (a version of his earlier “Nine Theses”). The draft WikiProject was not itself a bannable offense, but hisContinue Reading
AZL, a German composites engineering group, has launched a collaborative project to make plastic-based battery casings economically viable for electric trucks, buses and off-highway vehicles. Plastic casings are already used in passenger cars as an alternative to steel and aluminum, where AZL says they cut weight and open new routesContinue Reading
EVelution Energy is building a commercial-scale, solar-powered plant to make cobalt metal and EV battery-grade cobalt sulfate, in Yuma County, Arizona. Once operational, the facility is expected to process about 24,000 metric tons of cobalt hydroxide feedstock per year. EVelution says it will produce up to 20,000 metric tons ofContinue Reading
Newegg is now listing the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G OC for $329.99 – its original launch price. VideoCardz writes that the listing was created on July 2 and published on July 5.Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
British Airways is by far the leading long-haul operator from the UK. Between July 2026 and March 2027, the oneworld carrier plans an average of 94 daily departures from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and London Gatwick Airport (LGW).Continue Reading
To most passengers, an aircraft is identified by the flight number printed on a boarding pass. However, the identity used by pilots and air traffic control can be slightly different. The same aircraft may operate one flight under a standard airline call sign, another under a modified alphanumeric call sign,Continue Reading
Giordano said there is evidence that DEWs, which can be mounted in backpacks or vehicles, have been used domestically., Giordano said there is evidence that DEWs, which can be mounted in backpacks or vehicles, have been used domestically., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Hannah Montana Linux (HML) has become a conversation starter in the land of FOSS (aka FOSSLand?), and somehow, the year is 2026. The remaster, released by Noah Cagle, a developer/YouTuber, has taken us by surprise. This new avatar of HML is a combination of Debian Live tooling and the CalamaresContinue Reading