Though an official announcement has yet to be made, Broadcom and OpenAI look to be collaborating on a new AI chip. The Financial Times reported the deal, which would produce the first AI chip of OpenAI’s own. OpenAI has been looking for ways to diversify its hardware, which is currently …
Read More »Microsoft PowerToys 0.94 Introduces Shortcut Conflict Flags, Sniper‑Like Mouse Control, and More
This week, Microsoft released PowerToys 0.94, a feature-packed utility suite for Windows 11 “power users.” The first big change is a search box inside the Settings menu, allowing users to type inexact search terms. Results appear as suggestions in a flyout menu with the option to open a single option …
Read More »Rectangular Telescope Design Could Offer the Best Way to Find Earth-Like Planets
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already captured some incredible images of our universe, with some game-changing insights to boot. But researchers at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute believe the observatory would be capable of even more if it had been designed differently. Published Sunday in Frontiers in Astronomy …
Read More »JUICE Spacecraft Successfully Slingshots Around Venus on Track for Jupiter Orbit
The ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which launched in April 2023, has completed another successful flyby aimed at boosting its speed ahead of a Jupiter orbital insertion sometime in 2031. This latest flyby saw it come close enough to Venus that it had to turn off many of its …
Read More »Astronomers Find Surprise Exoplanet Forming Around Sun-Like Star
It wasn’t so long ago that exoplanets were technically only hypothesized and had never been directly observed. Today, it seems like every other week produces an amazing new observation and an exciting new insight.This week’s breakthrough comes from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, used by a team from Ireland’s …
Read More »Scientists Have Created a Protein Qubit Inside a Living Cell
Quantum technology is a uniquely poor fit for biology. It requires extreme precision and clean environments free of interference, which couldn’t be further from the environment inside a living cell. Scientists have trouble maintaining the state of a qubit inside enormous, shielded quantum devices, but now researchers from the University …
Read More »DeepSeek's New AI Model Reportedly Built for Upcoming Home-Grown Chips in China
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has revealed that China will soon have home-grown “next generation” chips for AI systems, which raises the question of whether the country has achieved a big breakthrough in building its own technology stack. The statement came in a short note on the company’s official WeChat account, where …
Read More »Microsoft Hints at More Affordable Xbox Cloud Gaming Option
Microsoft is looking at making Xbox Cloud Gaming more affordable with a potential new offering that could lower the cost for users. Access to Xbox Cloud Gaming is only currently possible through the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, priced at $19.99 per month. But Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s VP of next …
Read More »Microsoft Tells Users to Ignore 'Harmless' CertEnroll Errors After Latest Windows 11 Updates
Microsoft is urging Windows 11 users to ignore error messages that appear following the installation of the July 2025 preview update and the August 2025 security update. The company says these issues are logged in Event Viewer under Error ID 57 and contain a warning that the “Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic …
Read More »AI Startup, Perplexity Wants to Buy Chrome Browser for $34.5B
AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited proposal to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion in cash, according to a company spokesperson. The bid comes after growing regulatory pressure on Google, with a federal judge previously ruling that the company holds an illegal monopoly in internet search. The U.S. …
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