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REST IN PEACE Patrick Stewart, the actor best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek series and as Professor Charles After his longtime spokeswoman, Kelly Bush Novak, officially announced his death, tributes poured in from around the world. Fans and former colleagues remembered his legendary roles and marveled at how … Read more
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will allow website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content to train their models. Many websites contain a text file called robots.txt that informs crawlers what content they are allowed … Read more
China has unveiled its new amphibious assault ship, which is also the world’s first catapult-capable drone carrier. The Type 076 ship, named Sichuan, can easily be used to operate stealth drones and serve as a large naval combat platform. China carried out the successful launch and landing of the GJ-21 stealth reconnaissance and attack drone … Read more
Ripple effect: PC makers have spent most of this year chasing memory and graphics chips while AI data centers bought up everything they could. Now the circuit boards these chips sit on are also reportedly running low. These same factories are busy making far more expensive circuit boards for AI servers, pushing PC orders to … Read more
China could potentially launch its new aircraft carrier by the end of next year, according to a report. The ship could be China’s first carrier with a nuclear propulsion system. The report, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), revealed details citing recent satellite images of the Dalian Shipyard in northern China. … Read more
Hackers have stolen about $6.3 billion worth of digital assets from Binance, a major cryptocurrency exchange operator. The heist is more than four times larger than the largest crypto theft to date. TRM Labs Inc., a venture capital-backed blockchain intelligence startup, believes that both cyberattacks were carried out by a state-backed North Korean hacking group … Read more
Editor’s opinion: Many research and business organizations are trying to force their employees to use AI tools wherever and whenever they can. It goes without saying that the backlash is as strong as the dogged determination of senior leadership to advance AI, even where there is no need for it at all. David Durman could … Read more
As the United States expands nuclear power to provide reliable, carbon-free electricity, it still faces a major challenge: disposing of the radioactive waste left behind by spent reactor fuel. To address this problem, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy James P. Danly announced Thursday a $5.4 million grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) … Read more
Ludo Robotics Inc., a subsidiary of major South Korean video game maker Krafton Inc., today introduced Ludi 0.2, an artificial intelligence robotic system designed to understand and interact with people in the physical world. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Ludo grew out of Krafton, a company that primarily publishes video games and is best known for … Read more
Thanks, AI: Although magnetic tapes have their origins in the beginnings of computer science and digital media, they have never completely disappeared from the market. In fact, demand for data storage is currently so high that tape manufacturers are investing millions to expand their production capacity. Fujifilm recently announced a significant new investment in its … Read more