Scientists shrink light to create the tiniest pixel ever
At that scale, a display with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels could fit into an area measuring just one square millimeter.
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Tesla board warns shareholders to approve Musk's $1 trillion pay deal or risk losing him
Musk's proposed pay package, which consists of 12 tranches of shares, will award him up to $1 trillion contingent on meeting certain targets, including increasing the company's market cap from its current $1.36 trillion to $8.5 trillion by 2035 – that's around twice what the world's richest company, Nvidia, is...
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OpenAI's hype vs Anthropic's strategy: who's really winning the AI war?
OpenAI has entered agreements worth hundreds of billions of dollars to build vast data centers packed with high-performance chips, designed to strengthen its grip on generative AI. Yet as it expands through costly construction and mass-market products, a quieter rival, Anthropic, is emerging as a more structurally sustainable business in...
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High school student surrounded by police and handcuffed after AI mistakes his bag of Doritos for a gun
Taki Allen, a 16-year-old high school student at Kenwood High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, got an unwelcome surprise as he sat outside with friends after football practice while waiting to be picked up last week.
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Researchers turn mushrooms into living memory chips for sustainable computing
Mushrooms have long attracted scientific attention for their complex biological networks and resilience across environments. Those same biological systems, researchers found, can be engineered to create "memristors" – devices that retain memory of electrical activity.
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Repair shop calls Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition a disaster in design
Computer repair shop and popular YouTube channel Northridge Fix has made plenty of headlines over the years, many of them related to the well-documented RTX 4090 melting power cable issues.
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General Motors to launch eyes-off self-driving Cadillac Escalade IQ
General Motors will debut an "eyes-off" automated driving system on the electric Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028, expanding its self-driving technology for consumer vehicles. The feature builds on GM's Super Cruise experience and Cruise subsidiary's research.
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AMD's Am9080 at 50: The reverse-engineered chip that launched AMD into the CPU era
The Am9080 arrived in mass production in 1975 as AMD's version of Intel's 8080 – an instruction-set-compatible implementation built on AMD's own n-channel MOS process rather than a carbon-copy fabrication. That detail matters: the Am9080 wasn't a rebadged Intel part.
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Engineering the perfect robotic hand could unlock a $5 trillion humanoid market
Robotics engineers worldwide are tackling one of the most challenging frontiers in artificial intelligence and mechanical engineering: building a hand that functions like a human's. While humanoid robots can walk, lift, and balance, the absence of dexterous, sensor-rich hands remains a significant barrier to large-scale deployment in factories and other...
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