Trivia: What was the population of the Death Star?
In a galaxy far, far away, the Death Star wasn't just a weapon... it was a monumental achievement of (fictional) engineering and human resource management.
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Next-gen MRDIMM standard nears completion targeting 12,800 MT/s DDR5 transfer rates for AI and data center workloads
JEDEC's latest announcement provides an updated timeline for the future of MRDIMM, a relatively new memory standard introduced a few years ago to support bandwidth-intensive data workloads. Multiplexed Rank DIMM technology uses a multiplexing register and buffers to allow two memory ranks to operate simultaneously on a single DIMM, effectively...
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The Oscars just ruled that AI actors and AI-written scripts can't win awards
The Academy clarified rules for two categories related to AI, writes Vanity Fair. The first states that the only acting roles eligible for Oscar nominations are those "demonstrably performed by humans with their consent." Screenplays, meanwhile, must be human-authored to be eligible.
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Waymo robotaxi drives off with passenger's luggage after airport drop-off glitch
"I pressed the trunk open button, tried to get my luggage, but it doesn't do anything, and it drives away immediately," Jin told NBC.
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Utah becomes first state to target VPN use in age-verification law
On May 6, Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, takes effect. The law states that a user is considered to be accessing a website from the state if they are physically located there, regardless of whether they use a VPN, proxy server, or other means to disguise...
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Meta says New Mexico lawsuit could force Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp out of the state
Back in March, a jury already found the company violated the state's consumer protection law by lying about platform safety and hit Meta with $375 million in damages.
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Chinese court rules companies can't fire workers just because AI can replace them
We see a lot of stories about US tech giants laying off employees because AI systems are replacing them. As was the case with Meta, Amazon, and Block, these cuts are usually framed as ways to streamline businesses and embrace new technologies – even when they're not – which tends...
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This new material could make carbon capture dramatically cheaper by cutting the energy needed to run it
A research team at Chiba University in Japan is taking a different approach, focusing on solid carbon materials that can do the same job with far less heat. Their work centers on a new class of materials called viciazites, designed to control how nitrogen atoms are arranged within a carbon...
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Steam Survey: AMD's CPU gains stall as Nvidia's final RTX 5000 desktop GPU appears
There was little movement at the top of the GPU chart as the RTX 3060 remained the most popular option among survey participants. Its place at the top could be cemented if reports that Nvidia is re-releasing the 2021 card in July – a response to the memory crisis – prove accurate.
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A startup says it can replace home sprinklers with sound waves. Fire safety experts say show us the data
The underlying concept is not new. Acoustic fire suppression has been studied for years as a means of disrupting combustion by pushing oxygen away from the fuel surface.
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