This is quite a bit bigger than the original 12mm² die. The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to build bigger CPUs, it’s been mostly forgotten. Forgotten that is, until [Klaus Scheffler] supersized it over ten-fold! The project
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati becomes the company’s interim CEO, and co-founder Greg Brockman steps down as the board’s chairman but will remain OpenAI’s president — “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid …
Read MoreThe board of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, says it has lost confidence in CEO Sam Altman. Mira Murati, previously CTO, will serve as the company’s leader until it finds a permanent replacement.
Read MoreOn December 5, we’re celebrating WIRED’s 30th anniversary by bringing together the people who have shaped the world we live in, and who are pioneering the tech that will define the next 30 years.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A leaked internal memo from Amazon reveals the company is preparing for layoffs. Amazon plans to cut “several hundred” jobs from its Alexa department. The move is meant to help Amazon maximize its resources toward its current priorities — generative AI. Yesterday, Amazon announced a partnership with Hyundai that
Read MoreSam Altman. | OpenAI Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday. “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its
Read MoreCristina Criddle / Financial Times: Microsoft blocks the word Disney from Bing Image Creator after copyright concerns due to a viral trend where users created Disney film posters of their pets — Film company’s logo was visible in mock-ups of movie illustrations featuring users’ pets — Microsoft has tweaked …
Read MoreThe former presidential candidate recently released his first novel, The Last Election.
Read More“Ivan the Space Biker” and “Proto-Barney,” who Valve says were used in the alpha builds of Half-Life. You can now play as them in multiplayer. | Image: Valve. Valve just released a 25th anniversary update for Half-Life that adds a whole bunch of new content, some welcome quality-of-life upgrades, and even Steam Deck support, according
Read MoreInstant photography was one of the twentieth century’s coolest-to-have consumer inventions, but when the digital photography revolution came it had few answers. It survives as a niche format thanks to Fuji’s Instax line and a group of Dutch entrepreneurs who revived a defunct Polaroid works, but what hasn’t made it are the earlier pack and
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: Sources: Apple is pausing advertising on X after outcry over Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic tweet and reports that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content — – The left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters for America published a report Thursday that highlighted Apple, IBM …
Read MoreEddie Makuch / GameSpot: Game developer Scopely, citing data.ai, says Monopoly Go reached $1B+ in revenue in seven months, faster than any other casual game in mobile game history — Game company Scopely has announced that its mobile game Monopoly Go has now raked in more than $1 billion in revenue, becoming 2023’s …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority An “Unsubscribe” button is currently in development for Gmail on Android. The button will appear at the top of the email, just like it does for the web version. It was also discovered Google is working on a predictive back navigation function. No matter what we do, annoying marketing
Read MoreApple is reportedly still struggling to build a 5G modem to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm and now it might have to extend its deal with the chipmaker.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus has recently begun rolling out Oxygen OS 14 based on Android 14 to the OnePlus 11. With this update, the phone gets an extra Snapchat widget for the OnePlus Shelf feature and a lockscreen shortcut for Snapchat that launches you straight into the camera pane within the app.
Read MoreThe Space Shuttle has often been called the most complex pieces of machinery ever built, an underhanded complement if there ever was one. But it’s a claim not strictly limited to the final spacecraft. With a project as far ahead of the technological curve as the Shuttle was in the 1970s, nearly every component and
Read MoreThe Beats Studio Pro headphones are among an absolute downpour of new Black Friday deals that launched today. This deal was one that really caught our attention as it’s an enormous discount on a product that hasn’t been on the shelves for long. But you can now grab yourself a pair for an all-time low
Read MoreThe DoggoRamp is made of maple hardwood and looks gorgeous. It’s also expensive.
Read MoreNational climate advisor Ali Zaidi holds a press briefing on Thursday, December 16th, 2021, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. | Image: White House Climate change is already taking its toll on the US economy, according to the most sweeping national assessment yet that was published earlier this week.
Read MoreSony’s top-of-the-range WH-1000XM5 are available at their lowest-ever price in Amazon’s Black Friday sale.
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up to discuss the best hacks of the previous week, at least in our opinions. After chasing the angry bird away from Kristina’s office, we go to the news and learn that we’re in the middle of a solar conjunction Essentially, the Sun has come between
Read MoreWith the addition of shared password groups, iCloud Keychain is finally a viable alternative to 1Password and similar apps and services.
Read MoreThe app makes your texts appear in blue chat bubbles on your iOS friends’ phones. But there’s a cost.
Read MoreMartin Coulter / Reuters: The EU Court of Justice says Apple has filed a legal challenge to the Digital Markets Act — Apple (AAPL.O) has filed a legal case contesting decisions taken by the European Commission under its recently-introduced Digital Markets Act, according to a post shared by the Court of Justice of the European
Read MoreAirPods are all well and good, but what about the alternatives? These are some of the best around over Black Friday.
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