Computing
China ramps up energy boom flagged by Musk as key ...
New data on China's relentless energy installations underscore warnings from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang that the nation's world-beating power network will deliver a major advantage over the U.S. in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
Is artificial general intelligence already here? A...
Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such artificial general intelligence has already arrived. This...
How can computing for AI and other demands be more...
The growth and impact of artificial intelligence are limited by the power and energy that it takes to train machine learning models. So how are researchers working to improve computing efficiency to support the rising demand for AI and...
OLED gaming monitor shows only light burn-in after...
Optimum Tech has shown the faintest burn-in on its OLED monitor after 3,000 hours of use over two years, primarily from close to 500 hours of Overwatch. All that gameplay burned in the player card and health bar in...
Microsoft purges Windows 11 printer drivers, putti...
Microsoft is preparing a significant change to how printers are supported in Windows 11, ending support for drivers that primarily support older hardware.
Intel XeSS 3 MFG mod triples Arc A380 triples perf...
Intel XeSS 3 Frame Generation is shown to work effectively, even on entry-level GPUs. Cyberpunk 2077 increased from 55 to 60 FPS to as high as 140 FPS with MFG enabled.
Snag this premium WD Black SN850 2TB for a mere $1...
This rare price drop brings one of WD’s most popular PCIe 4.0 SSDs below $200, even as memory and storage prices trend upward
Why bitcoin is losing its luster after stratospher...
Bitcoin, the world's biggest cryptocurrency, sank this week, wiping out gains sparked by Donald Trump's presidential election victory in November 2024.
Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh judgment day is reporte...
New leaks point toward a March 23 embargo lift for review of Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake refresh. However, this batch appears to include only three chips, with the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus absent from the lineup. Early pricing...
MSI's RTX 5090 Lightning storms in at a thunderous...
MSI has launched a lottery offering 10 winners the chance to purchase the limited-edition RTX 5090 Lightning.
AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions, se...
In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine's detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent...
Builder's dream PC case vanished from stores, so t...
Redditor u/AudiblyTacit shared their custom 3D-printed SFF case based on the Xikii FF04, equipped with an RTX 5070 Ti.
City skylines need an upgrade in the face of clima...
When structural engineers design a building, they aren't just stacking floors; they are calculating how to win a complex battle against nature. Every building is built to withstand a specific "budget" of environmental stress—the weight of record snowfalls, the...
20-gigawatt Chinese microwave weapon touted as ‘St...
Scientists in China have developed an incredibly powerful microwave weapon capable of disrupting or damaging low-Earth orbit satellites.
Crypto disaster sends $44 billion in bitcoins to r...
Only 0.3% of cryptocurrency exchange transaction clients got rich as a result of a major error.
Robots that keep moving when flipped? Sea star tub...
Ever feel run off your feet? Spare a thought for sea stars, creatures whose movement involves the coordination of hundreds of tiny tube feet to navigate complex environments—despite the lack of a central "brain."
In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuc...
Tires stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warramunga facility, about 500 kilometers north—a remote monitoring station I've directed for the Australian National...
Minisforum MS-02 Ultra mini workstation hands-on —...
I wanted to see if the diminutive new Minisforum MS-02 Ultra could replace my very bulky but capable DIY desktop PC.
Q&A: Turning waste into fuel and chemicals—practic...
Creating fuel and chemicals from agricultural waste to revolutionize the industrial structure is the aim of the cutting-edge biomanufacturing research activity based at Kobe University. One key player in this research is Professor Ogino Chiaki, a bioproduction engineering expert...
Dynamic digital product passports for short-shelf-...
Dynamic digital product passports—real-time, intelligent digital records that capture the true condition of perishable goods such as food and drink throughout their life cycle—could dramatically cut waste and improve safety, thanks to a new framework jointly developed by researchers...
































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