Elevator inspectors in Japan may soon receive instructions from AI, thanks to an interesting plan involving Nvidia and Hitachi Building Systems. With thousands of elevators being inspected each year in Japan and a limited supply of workers with the skills for this task, Hitachi plans to start using AI agents …

Apple is preparing to introduce a new product this week via an online announcement, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Among the possible launches are the M5 iPad Pro and a Vision Pro with an updated chipset (probably M5 as well) and an improved strap design. Both devices are believed to be …

The head of the European Space Association (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, has warned that Europe needs to quickly develop its own reusable launch vehicle in order to catch up with the efforts of American companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin. The wheels are in motion to get this done, he said, …

Microsoft is preparing a massive redesign of the desktop OneDrive app. Over the coming months, the program will see improvements to photo management, a handful of new AI-powered editing tools, and better sharing options. The new OneDrive desktop app will shift away from the small taskbar flyout and become a …

October is the time to catch up on spooky movies, and if you’ve got a lot of people streaming, gaming, or working at once in your home, buffering might have you suffering. The cure? A new router or mesh system. Cutting-edge networking hardware harnesses the entire Wi-Fi spectrum for optimum …

Late last week, a Reddit user showed off their unique iPhone 17 Pro Max setup, which uses passive PC SSD heatsinks to improve sustained performance stability. The user, u/T-K-Tronix, says their DIY cooling system bumped the Pro Max’s stability score from 69.4% to 90.5%.The iPhone 17 Pro Max has the …

A hardcore graphics card hobbyist has published a video showing off his incredible collection, which includes just about every flagship GPU from each major generation over the past 30 years. The expansive exhibit spans three decades of Nvidia and ATI/AMD graphics cards, starting with the NV1 from 1995 and running …

On Thursday, Meta introduced Vibes, a collection of AI-generated, short-form videos available exclusively in the Meta AI app. Similar to how you’d scroll through Reels on Facebook or Instagram, you can now browse AI videos alongside the prompts that inspired them. In one of Meta’s examples, a video depicts strong, …

NASA has announced that for the first time, it will contract out a private spacecraft to reboost one of its falling satellites: the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The observatory has spent the past 20 years searching for gamma-ray bursts. The commercial company will launch a new reboosting spacecraft in spring …

Microsoft has debuted “microfluidic” cooling, which it suggests could be used to cool future AI chips by allowing some cooling fluid to flow through the chip itself rather than just over the cold plate attached to it. Microsoft claims this form of cooling was three times more effective than standard …