Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s Tesla Bot on Friday, a robot codenamed Optimus that shuffled across a stage, waved, pumped its arms in a slow sort of dance move and could go on sale by 2027.”Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robo…
Tesla’s artificial intelligence team is pushing ahead with work to create humanoid robots and build truly self-driving cars. You can learn more about it at the company’s second AI Day, set for the evening of Sept. 30. Expect to see some of the most …
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AMD will begin shipping its Ryzen 7000 family of desktop processors, bringing a 29% speed boost to PCs favored by gamers and creative types like video editors and animators.
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The new model, packaging thre…
Tesla has revealed the AI technology it’s created to teach its thousands of cars to drive themselves in the race to revolutionize the transportation industry.The artificial intelligence system, called Dojo and detailed Tuesday at the Hot Chips confe…
Teaching robots to understand language turns out to help them deal with the open-ended complexity of the real world, Google has discovered.The tech giant has grafted its latest artificial intelligence technology for handling language, called PaLM, onto…
Government subsidies and pandemic-era telecommuting have quietly fueled the growth of broadband fiber networks, propelling the fast connection technology from an exotic, expensive technology niche to the mainstream.In the US, the Rural Digital Oppor…
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Nvidia announced technology to let metaverse developers create lifelike avatars that can give an animated human face to the computers that people will interact with online.
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The metaverse needs new comput…
President Joe Biden will sign the CHIPS and Science Act into law Tuesday, the White House said, sending $52.7 billion to processor manufacturers over the next five years in an effort to help the United States reclaim its semiconductor industry …
Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon launched a public effort in July to scrap the leap second, an occasional extra tick that keeps clocks in sync with the Earth’s actual rotation. US and French timekeeping authorities concur.Since 1972, the world’s t…
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Quantum computer maker Quantinuum proved the merits of 1990s idea, catching and correcting errors as a calculation progresses.
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This key step ultimately could potentially make the revolutionary machines p…
With the COVID spending spree on PCs at an end and consumers spooked by inflation and a worsening economy, Intel’s profit and revenue plunged in the second quarter, the chipmaker said Thursday.Intel’s own problems, like quality issues with the chips…
Wikipedia pages influence judicial thinking, citing legal cases 20% more often after new articles describing them were written, MIT researchers have found.The study, detailed Wednesday, shows that legal minds are similar to those of students, hobbyi…
After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate on Wednesday passed the CHIPS Act, a bill that would provide $52.7 billion over five years to try to help companies like Intel and GlobalFoundries compete with Asian processor manufacturers.The bill is…
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Intel’s nascent effort to build chips for other companies, called Intel Foundry Services, won over a major customer, Taiwan-based MediaTek.
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By helping Intel’s struggle to reclaim its chipmaking leadershi…