Technology

The U.S. War Department has awarded Amprius Technologies a grant of up to $75 million to convert an existing electric vehicle battery production line into a high-volume drone battery manufacturing facility. The Fremont, California-based battery maker plans to retrofit a U.S.-based electric vehicle battery line operated by a major South Korean manufacturer. The converted facility … Read more

In short: Bose goes back to basics, and today’s youth are largely responsible for that. The company is now taking pre-orders for a new set of noise-canceling earbuds that swap Bluetooth wireless connectivity for a wired listening experience. It’s the company’s first set of wired headphones in more than a decade. Bose says the new … Read more

The world’s largest and most powerful launch vehicle, SpaceX’s Starship, just launched into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the company’s more powerful Starlink V3 internet satellites. The unmanned Starship Flight 14 lifted off from the company’s Starbase location in Texas at approximately 7:46 a.m. CT on Monday, September 28. The historic departure … Read more

The takeaway: Researchers have found a way to forge certain RSA signatures without considering the key behind them, challenging a long-held assumption about one of the oldest public-key cryptosystems on the Internet. The attack does not appear to compromise the most commonly used RSA implementations today, including those protected with PKCS or PSS padding. However, … Read more

Scientists have found a way to prevent the chaotic scattering of light and sound waves in complex, oddly shaped spaces. Shout into an irregularly shaped room and your voice will collapse into a chaotic mess of echoes. The incoming wave hits a sloping wall, bounces off at an angle and quickly becomes completely unpredictable. Physicists … Read more

80 Although the multiplayer mode favors those with spare cash, Ace Combat 8’s single-player adventure is worth the price of admission alone. The story could have been more intense – more introspective – but it’s still entertaining, and while there are some pacing issues and uneven dynamics in filler missions, much of the game is … Read more

Researchers have found that brain circuits are hijacked, leading to increasingly rigid and repetitive behavior. The brain circuit normally involved in selecting natural mouth and facial movements, but which is disproportionately taxed when behavior declines with repeated cocaine exposure. The new study by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that the striatum is … Read more

What just happened? It appears that Russia has followed in Iran’s footsteps and decided to target data centers in its hostilities. A Russian drone hit a business center in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Friday, killing four people and damaging a data center that Russia later confirmed as a target. The September 25 attack shocked … Read more

According to an independent research report based on information from AI research firm Transluce, OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents repeatedly polled a UN website and used techniques that appeared to circumvent restrictions on retrieving publicly available data. The agents searched a public data hub run by UN Trade and Development, the trade arm of the United … Read more