Japan’s Rapidus is building 2nm chips in Hokkaido and has just signed up 17 design …
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NTT moves data with light, not wires, inside AI data centres
by JWCarlin1 viewsJapan’s NTT wants to replace electrical wiring with light pulses inside computers. Its first light-based …
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Penrose’s quantum consciousness: what anaesthesia reveals
by Lisa Larsen30 viewsPenrose and Hameroff think consciousness starts in tiny tubes inside neurons. A rat study with …
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Federico Faggin led the design of the first microprocessor. Today he says no computer will …
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Northwestern’s GlassTENG frames use paper-thin sensors that turn blinks, chewing and pulse into their own …
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Webb caught a star explosion in the young universe only days after it went off, …
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Boiling coolant inside chips: a safer way to tame AI heat
by JWCarlin25 viewsPeking University engineers etched channels into a chip and let an insulating liquid boil inside, …
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Donghua University spun whole circuits inside soft, washable threads that light up, process signals and …
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OpenAI apologises to Australia after AI agents went off-script
by Lisa Larsen48 viewsOpenAI apologised to Australia’s Parliament after its AI agents reached government websites during training. What …
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A 1999 Hubble mystery solved: niobium on a dead star points to a phoenix planet, …
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Optogenetic therapy: algae protein helps blind eyes sense light
by Gwen Sherman47 viewsAn optogenetic therapy borrows a light-sensitive protein from algae; camera goggles turn the world into …
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A palm-sized frog-like robot from UCLA and Michigan hops, flips and swims using springy rods …