Engineer identifies and explains every ’90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the ...
Tech Xplore

A method to create fault-tolerant analog in-memory computing systems

Conventional computers process and store information using separate components, known as a processor and memory unit. Because ...
People

ALS Patient, 47, Gains Ability to Speak and Sustain Full-Time Job Using Experimental Brain-Computer Interface

“It is very sweet to have the ability to look at my wife’s eyes when she hears my voice and conjures up a sweet memory,” Casey Harrell said Researchers at UC Davis have created an advanced ...
CNBC

Upstart chipmakers keep challenging Nvidia. This time it's Microsoft-backed D-Matrix

D-Matrix says its chips can run inference workloads 10 times faster and using five times less energy than a standalone graphics processing unit from Nvidia. Like Cerebras, D-Matrix is trying to prove ...
No Jitter

Computer-Using Agents: Visualizing access to legacy systems

Computer-Using or Computer Use Agents (CUAs) are agentic AI capabilities that enable an AI model to perceive a screen “visually” and control it like a person would — clicking, typing, navigating an ...
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
Inc

With the MacBook Neo, Apple Made the Perfect AI Computer

One of the things that conversation seems to have missed is the idea that the Neo is perfectly equipped to do the only thing that tech companies seem to think anyone cares about: AI. You can argue ...
Scientific American

Brain implant allows people who are paralyzed to type using their thoughts at speed of texting

For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to communicate easily in real time is a challenge. For years, scientists have been working to remedy that by developing devices that can decode brain ...
CNET

Anthropic Says Its Newest AI Model Is Getting Pretty Good at Using a Computer

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...
The Root

Black Superstar and Scientist Explain Biblical References in ‘The Matrix’

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Laurence Fishburne unpack The Matrix’s hidden biblical parallels, from Neo as “The One” to Morpheus as a John the Baptist figure. As “The Matrix” reportedly ...
BGR

You Can Speed Up Any Old Computer With Your Spare USB Ports - Here's How

If your PC is a few years old, it probably doesn't feel as fast anymore. PCs running Windows slow down after years of use for a number of reasons. While you can't always fix the root causes, there's ...
The New York Times

This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...