Archive for the 'Technology' Category
AI Helping to Solve Fusion Energy
February 19th, 2025Via: MIT News: In a recent open-access paper titled “Prediction of Performance and Turbulence in ITER Burning Plasmas via Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Profile Prediction,” published in the January issue of Nuclear Fusion, Howard explains how he used high-resolution simulations of the swirling structures present in plasma, called turbulence, to confirm that the world’s largest experimental fusion […]
Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
February 15th, 2025Via: Gizmodo: Artificial intelligence may one day make humans obsolete—just not in the way that you’re thinking. Instead of AI getting so good at completing tasks that it takes the place of a person, we may just become so reliant on imperfect tools that our own abilities atrophy. A new study published by researchers at […]
AI Delaying New Tech Adoption?
February 14th, 2025Via: Vale: Large language models, especially those on the scale of many of the most accessible, popular hosted options, take humongous datasets and long periods to train. By the time everything has been scraped and a dataset has been built, the set is on some level already obsolete. Then, before a model can reach the […]
World’s First Hybrid Quantum Supercomputer Reimei Activated in Japan
February 14th, 2025Via: Interesting Engineering: Engineers in Japan have activated Reimei, the world’s first hybrid quantum supercomputer. The 20-qubit quantum machine has been integrated into Fugaku, the world’s sixth-fastest supercomputer. The hybrid system is designed to solve problems that classical supercomputers take much longer to process. The machine is housed at the Riken scientific institute in Saitama, […]
Larry Ellison Wants to Put All America’s Data, Including DNA, in Giant Database for AI to Study
February 13th, 2025Tell us another one, Larry. Via: Register: If governments want AI to improve services and security for their citizens, then they need to put all their information in one place – even citizens’ genomic data – according to Larry Ellison, the Oracle database tycoon. Ellison shared his take on what governments need to do to […]
PassMark Sees First Yearly Drop In Average CPU Performance In Its 20 Years Of Benchmark Results
February 11th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware: Benchmarking software developer PassMark publishes the average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks in a line graph. In line with what many enthusiasts might expect, the PassMark graph has always shown a consistent increase in processor performance year-on-year. However, for the first time since the company […]
DOGE Technologist and Thiel Fellow Luke Farritor
February 10th, 2025And now, Department of Energy: …listed as an engineer in the DOE’s staff directory… Hmm. Via: R&D World: Before he joined the White House’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), 23-year-old engineer and former SpaceX software intern Luke Farritor was already making waves in digital archaeology. In 2023, he helped lead the Grand Prize-winning team […]
Research Underway to Enable Satellites to Permanently Orbit in Very Low Earth Orbit
February 9th, 2025Is this actually going to happen? I don’t know why, but Cryptogon is read by many people who are qualified to provide a sanity check on this. I hope they comment. Needless to say, it would be very bad if remote operated/autonomous weapon systems were able to use realtime, high definition imagery, available planet-wide, for […]
Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
February 7th, 2025Via: MacRumors: The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The Washington Post. The undisclosed order is said to have been issued last month, and requires that Apple creates a back door that allows UK security officials unencumbered access to encrypted […]
Aluminum Batteries
February 6th, 2025Via: IEEE Spectrum: Electric vehicles( EVs) and green energy sources rely heavily on batteries to store electricity. Currently, more than 75 percent of the world’s energy storage depends on batteries that contain lithium, an expensive mineral that’s subject to volatile pricing. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries themselves can be volatile, too, because they use a flammable electrolyte […]
