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Memory chip costs drive smartphone shipments to 14-year low
Global smartphone shipments fell 20 percent year over year in the third quarter of 2026, marking the weakest July to September period…
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An Atlanta computing hall built for an estimated 304,279 chips skipped backup generators entirely, and engineers say the local power grid alone keeps it running at four nines reliability
Picture a building longer than three football fields, packed floor to ceiling with glowing server racks, yet nowhere inside it is a…
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Google tests AI chips in orbit with Project Suncatcher satellite
Google has launched a prototype satellite carrying four of its custom AI chips into orbit, an early step in a research effort…
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A single stack of glass plates for one advanced chip design costs up to $30 million to etch, and that steep bill is reshaping who can even attempt to build new silicon
Inside a clean room lit like an operating theater, a technician lifts a square of coated glass no bigger than a dinner…
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Google Beam 3D video booths expand to 20 USO locations
Google is deploying its Beam 3D video communication system to 20 United Service Organizations locations worldwide, a hardware and cloud rendering expansion…
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A $359 fitness band bundles its yearly membership into the sticker price, but canceling the subscription turns the wearable into an inert rubber bracelet overnight
A black wristband sits on a nightstand, screenless and quiet, its tiny light blinking once a day whether anyone is wearing it…
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Nvidia unveils optical interposer chip prototype for future AI servers
Nvidia has unveiled a prototype chip packaging technology that moves optical communication circuitry directly onto the silicon carrying its processors, a design…
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A San Francisco AI lab with a couple dozen staff and no product raised $1 billion in nine months, and its backers valued the startup at $6 billion
A couple dozen desks, a few whiteboards covered in equations, and not a single product for sale anywhere in the building.That is…
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Google brings blood pressure tracking to screenless Fitbit Air
Google has begun rolling out blood pressure and insulin resistance tracking to the screenless Fitbit Air, extending its Health Guardian feature suite…
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A Beijing track robot crossed the 100 meter line in 8.86 seconds this past August, and that mark beat every human sprinter who has ever raced it
A finish line camera in Beijing caught something that had never happened on a track before.A machine built from metal joints and…
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Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion to challenge Nvidia on AI chips
Tenstorrent, the AI chip company led by veteran semiconductor architect Jim Keller, has closed a $1.5 billion Series E funding round at…
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A password spray hit 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants at 2,900 tries a minute last week, but investigators say a Chinese state-aligned hacking group let an AI agent pull the trigger
A single stolen login credential sat quietly inside a backup app used by thousands of small businesses. Then, over four days in…