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'The navigation systems on board aircraft and drones will be off significantly': Why aging magnetic data poses a growing risk and how quantum sensors could help fix it

By Desire Athow Published 4 April 26

Exclusive Quantum diamond magnetometers could enable resilient navigation without GPS, while supporting defense, security, and future magnetic mapping systems.

'Building AI literacy, proficiency, and fluency': how the US National Science Foundation is planning a nationwide AI workforce expansion

By Desire Athow Published 3 April 26

Exclusive NSF outlines its nationwide plan to expand AI literacy, training, and adoption for workers, businesses, and local communities.

'Every living thing on Earth runs on the same programming language': How AI foundation models trained on DNA could transform plant biology

By Desire Athow Published 29 March 26

Exclusive How AI foundation models are moving from language into the biology of living systems and plant science.

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'A huge amount of network traffic now comes from machines talking to other machines': what rising data demand means for networks

By Desire Athow Published 28 March 26

Exclusive With AI reshaping operations, a telecom expert says networks and data centers are growing increasingly interconnected.

1979 was the year Apple dreamed of multi-colored Macs, but it had to wait nearly 20 years before the release of the iconic iMac G3

By Wayne Williams Published 22 March 26

Apple’s long obsession with colorful computers started in 1979 and still shapes its Macs today.

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'AI can be relentless in a way that a human is not': With too few experts to go around, this startup is chasing a Matrix-style idea of “copying and pasting” expertise

By Desire Athow Published 18 March 26

Exclusive With too few human experts, this AI startup is chasing a Matrix-style idea of “copying and pasting” expertise.

“People aren’t put off by ‘used’ — they’re put off by uncertainty”: How the smartphone industry can build trust in refurbished devices

By Desire Athow Published 17 March 26

Exclusive Most smartphones still work when retired, yet fewer than 10% are refurbished — how can the industry close the gap?

"We're the layer that AI needs to get things done in the real world": MeatLayer is building a marketplace where AI hires humans to do jobs

By Desire Athow Published 17 March 26

Exclusive It sounds like dystopian fiction, but MeatLayer is building a marketplace where AI hires humans.

'Data is so ubiquitous nowadays, but we’re not necessarily coming up with new ways to protect it': Researchers develop ‘negative light’ signals that hide transmissions in plain sight

By Desire Athow Published 15 March 26

Exclusive Scientists demonstrate a communications method that hides data in natural heat radiation, making transmissions invisible to snoopers.

'People don’t trust bad AI voices': listeners rated a Chinese startup's synthetic voices higher for trust and realism than those from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon

By Desire Athow Published 11 March 26

Exclusive Listeners rated a Chinese startup's AI voices more realistic and trustworthy than those from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

“We intend to launch our first end-to-end commercial DNA Data Storage solutions before the end of 2026”: Biomemory outlines its DNA storage roadmap after Catalog deal

By Desire Athow Published 7 March 26

Exclusive French DNA storage pioneer Biomemory has acquired rival Catalog, and told us where it sees the technology in the years ahead.

Before The Matrix and The Terminator, there was 'The Creation of the Humanoids' — how an obscure 1962 B-movie set the scene for robot takeover and introduced the concept of centralized intelligence

By Wayne Williams Published 7 March 26

Before modern robots, a 1962 B-movie and 1990s MIT research reshaped machine intelligence.

“Rewriting the blueprint, not removing bricks”: Multiverse Computing says it can shrink large AI models and cut memory use in half

By Desire Athow Published 4 March 26

Exclusive Multiverse launches compressed OpenAI language model designed to cut memory needs and lower AI infrastructure costs.

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“AI in networks isn’t CPU vs. GPU”: Intel unveils 18A-based Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ for edge AI and early 6G infrastructure

By Wayne Williams Published 3 March 26

Intel expands Xeon 6 lineup with 288-core Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ targeting AI workloads in 5G networks.

Huawei debuts its Atlas 950 AI SuperPoD at MWC 2026, taking the AI data center fight to Nvidia and AMD

By Wayne Williams Published 3 March 26

Atlas 950 AI SuperPoD goes global as Huawei challenges Nvidia and AMD in data center computing.

Finally, someone launched an Android tablet for grownups: Lenovo ThinkTab X11 is a durable, rugged slate that will come with a long warranty and the backing of the world's largest PC maker

By Wayne Williams Published 2 March 26

Lenovo unveils ThinkTab X11 rugged Android tablet at MWC 2026 with Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, IP68 durability, and a removable battery design.

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AI is competing with humans to buy DDR5 memory amid the RAMpocalypse caused by its owns appetite for memory

By Wayne Williams Published 2 March 26

DDR5 memory listings scraped 50,000 times per hour by bots as AI boom fuels new opportunities for resellers.

Lenovo embraces Microsoft Surface Pro design with ThinkPad X13 detachable tablet PC — but with a $2,000 starting price, is it too expensive for its own good?

By Wayne Williams Published 2 March 26

Lenovo reveals ThinkPad X13 Detachable at MWC 2026 with Surface-inspired design, Core Ultra Series 3 processors, and a $1,999 starting price.

Prices of AMD's popular Ryzen 5 series doubled since February 1st to $400 — nobody knows why, but here's what may have happened

By Wayne Williams Published 26 February 26

AMD Ryzen 5 prices doubled to $400 in February 2026 amid memory shortages, wafer constraints, and thinning retail inventory.

World’s largest SSD has tripled in price in just nine months and now costs more than a new car

By Wayne Williams Published 24 February 26

World’s largest SSD has tripled in price in just nine months and now costs $37,128, roughly $302 per terabyte.

Before Cerebras, there was Amdahl: How legendary US engineer was way ahead of his time with wafer-scale integration and plotted supercomputer performance for the humble PC 43 years ago

By Wayne Williams Published 23 February 26

How Gene Amdahl turned IBM’s mainframe blueprint into a rival empire — and gambled on wafer-scale silicon decades before the AI era made it viable.

A portable computer in a suitcase: Toshiba's 1982 T100 was nothing like any computer ever launched till then and it even came with a modem and a mechanical keyboard

By Wayne Williams Published 22 February 26

A suitcase-style CP/M computer with LCD, modem, and mechanical keyboard - the Toshiba T100 redefined early portable business computing.

'What we really wanted was Mike': How Mike Markkula was Apple's first true master marketer before Steve Jobs and wrote the business plan that made Apple a Fortune 500 company

By Wayne Williams Published 21 February 26

How Mike Markkula transformed Apple from garage experiment into the business that reshaped personal computing.

“The AI data centers of 2036 won’t be filled with GPUs”: FuriosaAI’s CEO on the future of silicon

By Desire Athow Published 21 February 26

We talk AI hardware, data centers, Nvidia’s dominance, and the future of inference chips with June Paik, CEO and co-founder of FuriosaAI.

Asus quietly launched Windows 11 Pure edition and almost no one noticed; 'Not for open channel' OS alludes to a faster, better, cleaner version of Microsoft's popular system

By Wayne Williams Published 17 February 26

Asus quietly ships ExpertBook B5 G2 with an unadvertised Windows 11 Pure OS option that appears tailored for enterprise customers.

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