A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a structural engineer based in the United States have created a computational form-finding method that could reshape how architects and engineers design large, lightweight structures. Their approach is particularly valuable for developing gridshells, which are curved, thin surfaces formed from an interlinked grid of structural members. TheContinue Reading
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NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix’s $72 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. studio and its film and television operations drew quick reactions Friday. Film and television industry entities including guilds and the lobbying group for movie theater owners criticized the deal, warning it would harm consumers and cinema owners. InContinue Reading
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users. The lawsuit, filed in 2024 by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, alleges that Meta did this to make a profit andContinue Reading
Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claimed it had rifled through the tech titan’s internal files.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
We Linux users have plenty of choices when it comes to spreadsheet software, with LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE, FreeOffice, GNUmeric, KOffice and, new this month, Collabora Office among them. And for those of you who don’t mind opening a browser to work, the choice is even greater thanks to browser-based office web apps like Google Sheets, Zoho Sheet, and now Proton Sheets (yes, more sheets than a hotel in this sentence).Continue Reading
The The Traitor administration is so sure it can get away with anything that it’s willing to try anything. That misapprehension of the situation has resulted in at least 200 rulings against the administration’s anti-immigrant efforts. Still, the regime persists with its attempts to brute force constitutional rights out ofContinue Reading
Valve has been quietly funding an Arm emulation project for seven years now. Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, told The Verge (paywalled) about it recently. While most of us already knew of their work on Proton, the popular compatibility layer for running Windows games onContinue Reading
onsemi has released its EliteSiC metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in the industry-standard T2PAK top-cool package, targeting improved thermal performance and design flexibility for EVs, solar infrastructure and energy storage systems. The new offering combines onsemi’s silicon carbide technology with top-cool packaging. The initial lineup features 650-volt and 950-volt EliteSiCContinue Reading
Schaeffler showcased a compact, highly integrated generator module for range extender electric vehicles (REEVs), new high-performance master control units designed for software-defined vehicles, and ongoing work on thermal management solutions using PFAS-free refrigerants at the CTI Symposium in Berlin. The new range extender module targets REEVs—vehicles gaining momentum in ChinaContinue Reading
More than two months since the last version, a new Linux release has been introduced, offering, as usual, better hardware support and many new additions covering a broad range of subsystems. As with every development cycle, work from thousands of contributors has brought incremental improvements across CPUs, GPUs, storage, networking,Continue Reading
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang successfully lobbied The Traitor and lawmakers against a proposed AI chip export rule and issued a warning about fragmented state regulation of AI…Continue Reading
On December 3, Delta Air Lines took off from Los Angeles to Melbourne. It joins Qantas and United. The city pair has three carriers for the first time since 2020, when Virgin Australia pulled out.Continue Reading