A US student has designed giant storage stands capable of supporting up to 45,000 pounds of superconducting magnets for the world’s first electron-ion accelerator (EIC). The four-tiered stands were designed by Robert Desjardins, a mechanical engineering senior at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and his mentor, EIC mechanical engineer Jonathon Greene. The structures will store … Read more
Make compromises: Huawei and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year reciprocal patent license covering 5G, computing, AI and networking. Huawei says this is the first agreement between the two that extends to 5G. As part of the deal, Qualcomm will also buy a number of Huawei-owned U.S. patents in computing, AI and networking. Neither company disclosed … Read more
The US military has withdrawn its entire contingent of B-1B Lancer bombers from RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom following new Iranian-related security concerns over the strategic air base. All US long-range bombers based at the Gloucestershire base returned to their home stations in the US on Sunday 4 October. At least a dozen B-1B … Read more
WTF?! Elon Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI after President Trump ordered the term Super Intelligence (SI) to be used instead of artificial intelligence. Musk appears to be following in the footsteps of fellow CEO Mark Zuckerberg, although the Facebook boss – who changed his company’s name several years ago to reflect a … Read more
The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), at a ceremony in Whittier, Alaska, Oct. 3. With the commissioning, the approximately 9,700-ton (8,800-ton) warship will enter active service as the second Flight III destroyer in the U.S. fleet. The ship is named after the late Senator Ted Stevens, … Read more
What you can look forward to: Microsoft is preparing to expand its Advanced Shader Delivery service to PCs with Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm graphics hardware, a move aimed at shortening the lengthy shader compilation process that can delay a game’s first launch. The service is already included in the PC version of Gears of War: … Read more
An institution that was explicitly set up to neutralize biological disasters is now at the center of one. Panic reigned in the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia this weekend following the death of Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Institute for Plague Control. Shipilova died on October 2 in an intensive … Read more
A Pittsburgh-based company has unveiled its powerful open-source humanoid robot. The robot, called RP1 (ROBOTO 01), was publicly unveiled at IROS 2026, marking its global debut. The company positions RP1 as the world’s first high-performance, full-stack, open source bipedal humanoid robot. RP1 is aimed at researchers, educators, robotics developers and embodied AI teams with the … Read more
What just happened? Another incident has occurred and highlights the need to be careful about what you tell the AI. A Florida woman is charged with a felony after using Claude as a diary and allegedly writing that she planned to “shoot up” the sheriff’s office. After a human evaluator reviewed the statements, they were … Read more
A nearly 1,200-foot-tall wind turbine has reached its full height in eastern Germany, creating a new approach to capturing wind energy at altitudes where the wind blows stronger and more consistently. The pilot turbine in Schipkau was developed by the German engineering firm GICON for the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) and is intended … Read more