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The Download: a smoking “endgame” and a new Elizabeth Bear story

The Download: a smoking “endgame” and a new Elizabeth Bear story

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway. —Jessica Hamzelou As the parent of two little girls, I often think about...

oomwoo - Le robot aspirateur open source à monter soi-même

oomwoo - Le robot aspirateur open source à monter soi-même

La société Maker's Pet vient de lancer oomwoo , un robot aspirateur open source que vous construisez vous-même ! C'est fait à base de Raspberry Pi 5, LiDAR 2D, ROS 2, châssis imprimé en 3D, et le tout fonctionne en local. Sauf qu'il y a un détail rigolo, pour l'instant il fait à peu près tout......

Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub

Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub

Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of just over 400,000 people—roughly half the size of San Francisco. Over the past two decades,...

The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings

The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. Like a...

The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictions

The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictions

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why. —Jessica Hamzelou It’s been hot in London this week. Really hot. A...

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced in 2021. The design could pave the way for faster and more energy efficient computers for years to...

Super Mario is mathier than you think

Super Mario is mathier than you think

Here’s a problem you probably didn’t solve in school: You’re an ambitious young plumber from Brooklyn in a world inhabited by violent human-size mushrooms called Goombas. The love of your life has been kidnapped, so you embark on a quest to rescue her, venturing through stretches of pipe-filled and...

Heads in the game

Heads in the game

The Argentina v. France final of the 2022 Men’s World Cup in Qatar was shaping up to be one of the most epic games in soccer history. With just 12 minutes remaining in the extra time added to the game to break a tie, the referee had a critical decision to make—and fast. Lionel Messi, the Argentine...

The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine.  It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the...

Elephant alert! AI warning systems aim to avoid deadly clashes

Elephant alert! AI warning systems aim to avoid deadly clashes

India is home to about 60% of the world’s wild Asian elephants, and around 80% of the animals’ habitat lies outside protected areas, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change. That brings people and wildlife into close contact, and clashes can turn lethal: There have been...