Category: 3. Tech

  • US chip giant GlobalFoundries opens $4 bn Singapore plant

    US chip giant GlobalFoundries opens $4 bn Singapore plant

    Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The world’s third-largest contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries opened a $4 billion manufacturing plant in Singapore on Tuesday as part of a global expansion to help ease an industry supply crunch. The semiconductor sector is recovering from disruptions caused by the pandemic, high inflation and sluggish global economic growth caused… Continue Reading News…

  • SoftBank supremo eyes rare success with Arm IPO

    SoftBank supremo eyes rare success with Arm IPO

    Masayoshi Son’s successful investments in Yahoo! and Alibaba in the 1990s made it seem like he had the Midas Touch but he has suffered some painful losses in recent years. Masayoshi Son’s once-exalted reputation as an investor is badly tarnished, but the irrepressible founder of Japan’s SoftBank is hoping that the mega-IPO of Arm this…

  • MIT AI Model Speeds Up High-Resolution Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles

    MIT AI Model Speeds Up High-Resolution Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles

    A machine-learning model for high-resolution computer vision could enable computationally intensive vision applications, such as autonomous driving or medical image segmentation, on edge devices. Pictured is an artist’s interpretation of the autonomous driving technology. Credit: MIT News A new AI system could improve image quality in video streaming or help autonomous vehicles identify road hazards…

  • How to turn off your location on an iPhone

    How to turn off your location on an iPhone

    Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Smartphone technology has revolutionized our lives but raised concerns about privacy. Location sharing, for example, can help us by letting navigation apps and ride-sharing services know where our devices (and usually us, too) are. However, sharing your location can lead to issues involving privacy, security, and…

  • Hubble and Webb Telescopes Shed Light on K2-18 b’s Habitable-Zone Atmosphere

    Hubble and Webb Telescopes Shed Light on K2-18 b’s Habitable-Zone Atmosphere

    Observations made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have disclosed the existence of carbon-bearing molecules within the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b, which is approximately 8.6 times the mass of Earth. For context, Neptune is approximately 20 times as massive as the Earth, so the mass of K2-18 b…

  • These upcoming EVs are our mass-market faves

    These upcoming EVs are our mass-market faves

    Today, Tesla is the industry leader—the automaker with the most EV sales. An updated Model 3 is finally on the horizon, and we’re hoping the company will address some of its quality and finish issues. What we’re hearing is that they will use more luxurious materials in the cabin, an updated dash, and more sound-deadening…

  • Hot summer air turns into drinking water with new gel device

    Hot summer air turns into drinking water with new gel device

    Credit: University of Texas at Austin For significant portions of the globe faced with water shortage problems, a beacon of hope may be on the way: the ability to easily turn hot air into drinking water. For the past few years, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have focused on the moisture present…

  • Algorithm breaks the exabyte barrier

    Algorithm breaks the exabyte barrier

    Illustration of distributed HPC hardware and different communication channels. Credit: The Journal of Supercomputing (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s11227-023-05587-4 A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer’s available memory by identifying a massive data set’s key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don’t choke computer hardware. Developed at Los Alamos…

  • Playing hide and seek with a new breed of malware threatening millions of users

    Playing hide and seek with a new breed of malware threatening millions of users

    Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Lurking just under the surface of popular online applications like Dropbox and Discord is a threat lying in wait to infect users unlucky enough to cross its path. Findings produced by Georgia Tech’s Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Lab reveal this new type of menace, labeled as web app engaged (WAE)…

  • In art, AI can acquire an entirely new purpose

    In art, AI can acquire an entirely new purpose

    The dancers did not want the AI to behave like themselves. Instead, they embraced its mistakes. Credit: Benedikte Wallace Researcher Benedikte Wallace set out to teach a computer how to dance. She ended up gaining new insight into how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in creative practice. Artificial intelligence is essentially trained to be…