“I do think we’re rapidly approaching the point where it will be a significant impact.” It has been nearly one month since many parts of the federal government shut down after lawmakers missed a budget deadline at the end of September, but so far, NASA’s most critical operations have…
Ideas include algae-based fuels and capturing carbon from the exhaust while driving. The Japan Mobility Show kicks off in Tokyo this week, and Mazda is using the occasion to show off a couple of concepts it says embody a theme called “the joy of driving fuels a sustainable tomorrow.”…
Details are remarkably sparse on what has been agreed to. On Tuesday, Westinghouse announced that it had reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would purportedly see $80 billion of new nuclear reactors built in the US. And the government indicated that it had finalized plans for a…
Nvidia is working with Lucid on autonomous cars and future factories. Is it possible to be a CEO in 2025 and not catch a case of AI fever? The latest company to catch this particular cold is Lucid, the Saudi-backed electric vehicle startup. Today, it announced a new collaboration…
Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base. An AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT is a gigantic statistical web of data relationships. You give it a prompt (such as a question), and it provides a response that is statistically related and hopefully…
Update introduces two ways for the fridges to show ads. After kicking off an unpopular pilot test last month, Samsung made the practice of having its expensive smart fridges display ads official this week. The ads will be shown on Samsung’s 2024 Family Hub smart fridges. As of this…
The storm was so strong a hurricane hunter had to end its mission early. Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwestern Jamaica, near New Hope, on Tuesday at 1 pm ET with staggeringly powerful sustained winds of 185 mph. In the National Hurricane Center update noting the precise landfall time…
The startup has partnered with RepairPal to service its affordable EV truck. Earlier this year, Slate Auto emerged from stealth mode and stunned industry watchers with the Slate Truck, a compact electric pickup it plans to sell for less than $30,000. Achieving that price won’t be easy, but Slate…
Both AMD and Intel continue to serve low-end PCs with aging silicon. As newer, more efficient silicon manufacturing processes have gotten more expensive and difficult to develop, chipmakers like Intel and AMD have repeatedly rebranded some of their older processors with new model numbers. This has allowed both companies…
New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives. On Monday, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a revised partnership agreement that introduces an independent expert panel to verify when OpenAI achieves so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), a determination that will trigger major shifts in how the companies…
