The world’s most powerful supercomputer, capable of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second, has been unveiled at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, designed primarily to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and run other classified simulations. The $600 million system, named El Capitan, consists of 87 computer racks weighing 1.3 million pounds and draws 30
Read MoreThe world’s most powerful supercomputer, capable of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second, has been unveiled at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, designed primarily to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and run other classified simulations. The $600 million system, named El Capitan, consists of 87 computer racks weighing 1.3 million pounds and draws 30
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images One last chance before the divest-or-ban law takes effect on January 19th. TikTok has just over a week before it’s forced to either separate from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or functionally cease operations in the US. An appeals court upheld a divest-or-ban
Read MoreAlex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have collectively agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming venture, and will focus on existing products — The sports-focused streaming service will not move forward, the companies said Friday. — Venu is dead. — The sports-focused streaming …
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad for The Verge Fluffy robots, portable TVs, and vacuums with arms and legs. This is what we come to CES for. Read the full story at The Verge.
Read MoreThe OnePlus 13 series is the first major launch of 2025 and feels like the start of something new for both Android phones and OnePlus itself. For Android devices, this is one of the first times that flagship phones are embracing massive 6,000mAh batteries, signaling that 2025 might finally be the year we achieve the
Read MoreImage: Tesla Tesla has officially revealed the latest version of its Model Y crossover following images leaking online that teased the EV’s redesign. Codenamed “Juniper,” the Model Y 2025 refresh is now live on Tesla’s website in China and other Asia-Pacific markets with deliveries expected to begin in March. It’s the most significant update to
Read MoreIt’s once again a fan favorite with its new M4 version, but 20 years after Steve Jobs launched the Mac mini, it has had an extraordinary life of rave reviews — and criticism. Apple’s website announces the Mac mini in 2005 Steve Jobs introduced the Mac mini with the explicit aim of attracting Windows switchers.
Read MoreCredit: Andy Walker / Android Authority A new leak suggests that the S Pen on the upcoming Galaxy S25 Ultra might not come with Bluetooth functionality. If true, this would mean that the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s S Pen would also lose features like gestures and remote control. Samsung introduced the S Pen with the first-ever
Read MoreWelcome to a new year of programming and the brand new monthly list of JavaScript stories just for developers! Among the highlights of this new year: Svelte and SvelteKit have seen a slew of incremental improvements, Astro.js 5.0 just hit, and the Next.js team is working on a composable caching mechanism. Meanwhile, we revisit the
Read MoreHP’s Neil Dover explains why proper device cybersecurity is vital from the supply chain all the way to decommissioning. Read more: Why cybersecurity is vital throughout a device’s life cycle
Read MoreHP’s Neil Dover explains why proper device cybersecurity is vital from the supply chain all the way to decommissioning. Read more: Why cybersecurity is vital throughout a device’s life cycle
Read MoreCalculator app has been around in macOS forever. Here’s how to use its four modes in macOS Sequoia. macOS’s Calculator app. Apple’s Calculator app lives in the /Applications folder at the root of your Startup Disk. One of the simplest of all the macOS apps, it was also one of the first utilities shipped with
Read MoreCalculator app has been around in macOS forever. Here’s how to use its four modes in macOS Sequoia. macOS’s Calculator app. Apple’s Calculator app lives in the /Applications folder at the root of your Startup Disk. One of the simplest of all the macOS apps, it was also one of the first utilities shipped with
Read MoreCalculator app has been around in macOS forever. Here’s how to use its four modes in macOS Sequoia. macOS’s Calculator app. Apple’s Calculator app lives in the /Applications folder at the root of your Startup Disk. One of the simplest of all the macOS apps, it was also one of the first utilities shipped with
Read MoreChristie Wilcox reports via Science.org: Both longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) and humans can figure out how to work together to move an unwieldy object through a series of obstacles. So scientists pitted the two against each other. They had individuals and groups of different sizes of both species maneuver a T-shaped object through holes
Read MoreThe Biden administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of AI chips before leaving office, “a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia,” reports Bloomberg. From the report: The US wants to curb the sale of AI chips used in data centers
Read MoreThe Biden administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of AI chips before leaving office, “a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia,” reports Bloomberg. From the report: The US wants to curb the sale of AI chips used in data centers
Read MoreNew information about the handheld seems to spring up every day, but it’s unclear when the Switch successor will make its appearance. It also doesn’t matter.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google is partnering with The Linux Foundation to launch an initiative meant to “fund open development and enhance projects” in the Chromium ecosystem, according to an announcement on Thursday. The fund, called Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers, is billed as a “neutral” space to support Chromium projects. Google launched Chromium alongside its Chrome
Read MoreMemory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares. The infamous WannaCry, Slammer, and Heartbleed exploits, and the more recent LDAP Nightmare, for example, were all enabled by buffer overflows. These memory safety vulnerabilities stem from the
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A federal judge this week rejected Google’s motion to throw out a class-action lawsuit alleging that it invaded the privacy of users who opted out of functionality that records a users’ web and app activities. A jury trial is scheduled for August 2025 in US District
Read MoreApple has made the Apple TV+ show “Severance” available on the Roku Channel for a limited time to promote the second season. An Apple TV+ teaser image for the second season of ‘Severance’ The Apple TV+ workplace thriller “Severance” is arriving back on the service on January 17. As part of its promotion of the
Read MorePhoto by Apu Gomes / Getty Images As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on their political enemies. In a series of posts on Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump claimed firefighters’ inability to get the fires under control was due
Read MoreThis week we break down the new government committee being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
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