This fall, with watchOS 27, Apple Watch will finally get access to Siri AI with a software update that turns your wrist into the most widely-used wearable AI platform on Earth. That’s not hyperbole. Siri AI on Apple Watch is arguably the most important feature to this year’s watchOS update. Though it didn’t get much attention atContinue Reading
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks, the tech industry listens. He used his first-ever post on X last week to argue that open AI models “strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.” Nvidia is a chip company (with a focus on GPUs). But it also has itsContinue Reading
More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons…Continue Reading
“A robot built by a company associated with sex dolls has no business in our classrooms.”, “A robot built by a company associated with sex dolls has no business in our classrooms.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
AI companies have faced several copyright lawsuits over the ethics of using published literature to train their models., AI companies have faced several copyright lawsuits over the ethics of using published literature to train their models., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
While most older fourth-generation fighter jets are able to fly at supersonic speeds, they have to engage their afterburners, which reduces their range. Not only do afterburners use an incredible amount of limited fuel, but they also place enormous thermal stress on the engines, accelerating wear and increasing maintenance requirements.Continue Reading
Modern commercial jet engines are among the most refined pieces of engineering ever developed. They are quieter, more fuel-efficient, and dramatically cleaner than the engines that powered earlier generations of airliners. So in this video, we take a look at why Boeing introduced engine chevrons, how they reduce noise, whyContinue Reading
SystemRescue 13.00 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and Many Useful Improvements. SystemRescue 13.00 is now available. This is a significant update to the popular Arch-based live Linux distribution that many of us use for system repair and data rescue tasks. If you work with broken systems, need to recoverContinue Reading
The official OMG! Ubuntu add-on for Firefox is back – albeit far later than planned (sorry about that). If you’ve used our Chrome extension over the last decade, this add-on will be familiar as it’s the same thing, just in Firefox. Same look and (almost) the same features because it’sContinue Reading
A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there was no indication that any copyright had been breached. Google announced in December that it was suing SerpApIContinue Reading
Microsoft cloud and Azure services hosted on the West Coast of the US went down for hours on Thursday when network connectivity failed. Although services running entirely within Microsoft’s West US cloud region were unaffected, any traffic entering or leaving the facilities was affected. Microsoft has now published a PreliminaryContinue Reading
Sony’s decision to stop producing PlayStation discs starting in 2028 was met with a ton of initial backlash, especially in the wake of Sony reminding its customers yet again that a digital purchase of content isn’t actually a purchase of content at all and what you’ve bought can be rippedContinue Reading
TDK has introduced the EP21 series of flat-wire double chokes (ordering code B82552J*J021). The company intends them for common-mode filtering in DC-DC converters and other low-voltage EMC protection circuits. The parts share a 23.8 x 17.7 mm footprint and stand 21.6 to 22.3 mm tall, depending on the version. TheContinue Reading