Elon Musk took to social media to claim that xAI, his pet AI project, will have more computing power than everyone else in the world combined in less than five years. The billionaire said this in response to an X post that says xAI is the “best team to join if you want to innovate,” specifically mentioning efficiency (intelligence per watt/mass
Robots fashioned from dead lobster exoskeletons have awesome strength, light weight, and flexibility — necrobotics advance mixes sustainable food waste with synthetic components
Swiss scientists have used dead lobster parts as robotic appendages. The strong yet flexible and lightweight exoskeletons of these marine animals have been successfully demonstrated as robotic manipulators, grippers, and swimmers or flappers flexing at up to 8 Hz. The use of dead animal parts makes this an advance in ‘necrobotics.’ This example of bio-hydrid robotics, from the
Customer orders two Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs, receives 20 SSDs worth over $5,100 instead — lucky score of two boxes packed with ultra-fast 2 TB PCIe 5.0 drives
Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc — experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet
For years, Google has enforced a restriction on changing the @gmail addresses it hands out when signing up for a new account. Apart from email, that's the address you use to log into any Google service, like YouTube, so many of us have been stuck with old identities we'd like to move on from. Fortunately, this convenience
Laptop maker Framework announces another immediate memory price hike, says additional increase expected within a month — encourages buyers to bring their own memory and check PCPartPicker for better d
Highly customizable and upgradable laptop manufacturer Framework announced that it’s hiking the prices of memory modules, this just one month after it had to increase RAM pricing by 50% and stop selling standalone kits to avoid scalpers. The firm also expects another price increase within the next month.
According to the company's blog , it’s increasing
AI data centers may soon be powered by retired Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines — firm asks U.S. DOE for a loan guarantee to start the project
Texas-based HGP Intelligent Energy sent a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to repurpose two retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors for use in an AI data center project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, under President Donald Trump’s Genesis Mission . Bloomberg says that the company aims to use two old reactors to deliver
This AMD-powered iBuyPower prebuilt has 32GB of DDR5 memory, Ryzen 7 CPU, and an RX 9060 XT GPU for just $1000 — $250 off provides pricing relief during RAM pricing crisis
If high memory prices are holding you back from building a new gaming PC, opting for a solid prebuilt can be a smart choice. Take, for instance, this iBuyPower Slate Mesh gaming desktop PC that pairs 32GB of DDR5 memory with an AMD CPU and GPU, available at a discounted price of $999.99 on Best Buy
Nvidia buys AI chip startup Groq's assets for $20 billion in the company's biggest deal ever — Transaction includes acquihires of key Groq employees, including CEO
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Arch Linux kills off Nvidia Pascal GPU support — users still running GTX 10-series graphics cards will have to manually install older drivers
Arch Linux is among the first Linux distributions to officially discontinue support for the GTX 10-series GPUs, following Nvidia's July announcement that it would discontinue default support for the lineup. In an update on the Arch Linux website , the Linux distro is officially switching to Nvidia driver version 590 as the default driver for Nvidia graphics cards. It lacks
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite's latest Linux benchmarks show significant regressions, perform similarly to five-year-old Intel Tiger Lake chips — promising chip continues to be plagued by software suppo
Things aren't looking too rosy for Snapdragon X Elite PCs. Although they made an initial splash in the market, combining excellent battery life with mid- to high-end performance, the machines' popularity suffered due to software support issues. As an example, Phoronix ran Linux performance tests on the SoC, and there have been significant regressions in just a few