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WTF?! Companies like Amazon have spent years trying to get their drone delivery programs off the ground. Today, several drone delivery firms are operating in a number of states, and that’s exposed a problem not everyone foresaw: people shooting the drones. In Florida, a 72-year-old man has been arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart […]

HPC Warfare: The Pentagon is augmenting its high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities by turning its supercomputers into a cloud service. After two years of prototyping, two commercial vendors will now turn their technology into a proper commercial venture. The DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), launched in 2015, has been described as the Pentagon’s “innovation experiment” to

Something to look forward to: Google is gearing up for another yearly showdown between its new flagship smartphones and Apple’s concurrent rivals. Reports indicate that the upcoming Pixel 9 series could introduce camera, chassis, and AI-related upgrades. Meanwhile, the Cupertino giant is preparing to kick off a mobile AI race with this fall’s hardware and

Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt derived from petroleum. After exposing the plate, he washed it with lavender oil and petroleum

Made in China: Chinese company Loongson Technology claims to have developed its new processor technology without copying anything from Western counterparts. The Loongson 3A6000 chip can now be purchased with a motherboard or as part of a complete system, offering a chance to better understand what the hardware can actually accomplish. AliExpress recently started offering

What just happened? The use of copyrighted material to train AI has become a hot-button issue, with experts divided on whether it constitutes theft or a legitimate form of study akin to artistic training. Microsoft’s AI top executive thought it would be a good idea to add fuel to the fire by making some bold

The big picture: If there’s one thing that generative AI is supposed to be good at, it’s analyzing the written word. However, two studies suggest that this ability may have been overhyped. One study demonstrates that Gen AI struggles with understanding long-form books, while another shows that these models find answering questions about videos challenging.

Something to look forward to: InspireSemi is betting big on its “supercomputer-on-a-chip” product called Thunderbird. The company believes that leveraging open-source RISC-V architecture and agnostic software compatibility makes its PCI add-in card more affordable, accessible, and efficient than its competitors. The Austin-based semiconductor company InspireSemi announced that it has tapped out its first Thunderbird “supercomputer-on-a-chip”

In brief: When they were first introduced, electric vehicles held a certain mystique that helped to drive sales. But the aura about these vehicles has been fading as evidenced by declining sales numbers and more recently, a Pew survey showing that the number of Americans seriously considering purchasing one has dropped by 9 percentage points.

In context: Apple has been trailing in the foldable device race, with no concrete plans to dream up one into existence despite numerous related patent filings – even as rivals like Samsung have been in on the game for nearly half a decade. However, a new patent filing suggests that Apple may have something even