Ana Swanson / New York Times: The US awards the first CHIPS Act grant to BAE Systems, giving the defense contractor $35M to boost production of chips used in F-15 and F-35 fighter jets — The award, which will go to BAE Systems, is part of a new government program aimed at creating a more
Read MoreThe online rumor mill around the existence of a potential Pro version of the PlayStation 5 has turned a little more with the release of some unsubstantiated information at this stage but may have some basis in reality. A user called RandomlyRandom67 released a list of specs on the videogame discussion forum ReseEra going into
Read MoreBloomberg: TechInsights: Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro shows “significant progress” in China’s domestic design and engineering of radio-frequency chips, replacing US suppliers — The Shenzhen-based company’s handsets include RF switches from Maxscend Microelectronics Co. and power-amplification modules …
Read MoreThe U.S. Commerce Department announced a $35 million award to BAE Systems to enhance domestic semiconductor production, according to a recent Reuters report. This funding, part of the $52.7 billion “Chips for America” program, aims to quadruple chip production in New Hampshire, crucial for F-35 fighter jets and commercial satellites. The investment in BAE Systems
Read MoreIn today’s data-driven world, the exponential growth of unstructured data is a phenomenon that demands our attention. The rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has added even more fuel to this data explosion, directing our focus toward a groundbreaking technology: vector databases. As a vital infrastructure in the age of AI, vector
Read MoreCredit: Apple Apple is said to be working on two screen sizes of the iPad Air and two of the iPad Pro, which are expected to launch in early 2024. Later, the iPad 11th-generation launch will phase out the iPad 9th-generation and some older accessories. This is said to simplify the iPad lineup. The iPad
Read MoreApple is named PETA’s “Company of the Year” for the removal of leather products from all of its accessories.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: The US needs an AI moonshot mentality, and in 2024 the government should galvanize support for a broad investment backed by strong public sector infrastructure — Artificial intelligence is too important to be left entirely in the hands of the big tech companies
Read MoreA new report has revealed the iPad Air 6, coming in March, will feature Apple’s powerful M2 processor.
Read MoreQuynh Nguyen / Bloomberg: Vietnamese media reports Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sees Vietnam as a potential second home for the Silicon Valley company and plans to open a design center there — Huang, speaking at a Hanoi semiconductor and artificial intelligence conference hosted by a Vietnam ministry Monday …
Read MoreNext year, the iPad 9th generation and M1 MacBook Air will be discontinued, signaling a much clearer lineup for Apple.
Read MoreSol-1 system pictured from the front. {Credit: Paulo Constantino) While the concept of a computer system implemented in discrete logic ICs is by itself not among the most original ideas, the way some machines are executed certainly makes them stick out. This is the case with [Paulo Constantino]’s Sol-1, which not only looks extremely professional,
Read MoreAshraf Khalil / Associated Press: How Street Sense, The Salvation Army, and Samaritan are using tech to help the unhoused, as people shift to cashless payment apps and don’t carry spare change — John Littlejohn remembers the days when lots of people had a couple of dollars to spare to buy a copy of Street
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority An upcoming HONOR flagship phone could bring a 160MP periscope camera. This would blow current phones out of the water in terms of resolution. There are loads of flagship phones with great camera zoom capabilities on the market, such as the Google Pixel 8 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra,
Read MoreFor all its popularity and success, SQL is a study in paradox. It can be clunky and verbose, yet developers often find it is the simplest, most direct way to extract the data they want. It can be lightning quick when a query is written correctly, and slow as molasses when the query misses the
Read MoreIt’s been a rough month for generative AI (GenAI). First, AWS launched Amazon Q, its answer to Microsoft’s Copilot, only to have its own employees warn of “severe hallucinations” and data leaks. Then Google launched Gemini, its answer to ChatGPT, to much fanfare and an incredible demo, only to acknowledge after the fact that the demo was fake.
Read MoreCredit: Threads Meta-owned Threads looks set to launch in the EU on December 14. The launch date comes via a countdown timer on the Threads website in the EU. Threads, the Meta-owned rival to X (formerly known as Twitter), launched in July. However, the new platform hasn’t been available in many European countries until now.
Read MoreFinancial Times: A look at the race among chip giants to make 2nm chips, as Samsung and Intel see the next leap in chip manufacturing a chance to close the gap with TSMC — TSMC, Samsung and Intel battle to create ‘2 nanometre’ chips in moves that will shape the future of $500bn industry
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus A OnePlus executive reportedly dished out the OnePlus 12 global launch date. The executive apparently said that the OnePlus 12R was coming to Europe as well. The OnePlus 12 launched in China last week, and it looks like a very capable flagship phone. We’ve already seen leaks regarding the handset’s global launch, and
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Users have been reporting lately that ChatGPT has gotten lazy. Instead of giving long, detailed answers, the AI bot would reply with formulas and recipes and urge the user to complete the task using the same. OpenAI has acknowledged user reports and feedback on this end and is looking
Read MoreEmily Nicolle / Bloomberg: London-based crypto derivatives trading platform Global Futures and Options, or GFO-X, raised a $30M series B led by M&G Investments — – M&G’s investment was part of a funding round for GFO-X — Funding was provided through its Prudential With-Profits Fund
Read MoreWall Street Journal: New York state, IBM, and more plan to invest $10B in a chip research facility at the University at Albany, set to include ASML’s advanced chip-making equipment — Planned facility to include advanced chip-making equipment made by ASML — New York state is joining chip companies …
Read MoreCowgol on Z80 running CP/M ties together everything needed to provide a Cowgol development environment (including C and assembler) on a Z80 running the CP/M operating system, making it easier to get up and running with a language aimed to be small, bootstrapped, and modern. Cowgol is an experimental modern language for (very) small systems.
Read MoreWashington Post: Sources detail Disinfo Lab: run by an Indian intelligence officer and behind a covert influence operation on social media discrediting Narendra Modi’s critics — NEW DELHI — Since 2020, an opaque organization calling itself the Disinfo Lab has published lengthy dossiers and social media posts claiming …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Podcasts will finally shut down in April 2024. Those who use the app have till July 2024 to migrate their subscriptions to YouTube Music or another podcast app. Google announced in September that it’s shutting down Google Podcasts for good. The company has now put a definite date
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