A new DNA synthesis method called Sidewinder can assemble dozens of genetic sequences simultaneously in a single test tube with just one error per 10 million assembly events, far surpassing convention…
New engineering graduates must treat artificial intelligence as leverage rather than competition to succeed in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Engineers who master fundamentals, develop system desi…
Quantum computers require significant classical computing infrastructure to operate, with companies like Nvidia, Q-CTRL, IBM, Riverlane, and Google Quantum AI developing classical hardware and softwar…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the Nvidia Groq 3 language processing unit at GTC 2026, marking the company's first chip designed specifically for AI inference rather than training. The chip incorpo…
Researchers and advocates are raising concerns that the AI industry is failing to systematically measure how the technology affects human well-being, even as it rapidly deploys tools that reshape cogn…
AI hardware startup Majestic Labs announced a new AI server, Prometheus, featuring up to 128 terabytes of memory — over 60 times more than Nvidia's DGX B300 — to overcome the "memory wall" bottleneck …
South Africa holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves critical to AI infrastructure and hosts the continent's largest data center market, giving it unique leverage over major te…
A new AI-powered thermal camera system launched on May 19 on Angel Island is detecting gray whales in San Francisco Bay to prevent ship strikes. The WhaleSpotter system uses artificial intelligence to…
European researchers have developed a millimeter-wave radar system that can distinguish between insect species by analyzing micro-Doppler signatures from their wingbeats, offering a non-invasive alter…
The IEEE Standards Association has launched the IEEE Global Medical Mobile App Assessment and Registry, a publicly searchable directory that lists therapeutic medical apps vetted by experts for techni…
Researchers at the University of Waikato have developed a text-to-speech system for a specific dialect of te reo Māori, built on the principle that the synthetic voice and all data used to create it m…
Companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have released open-source tools and models in the last two years aimed at enabling robots to reason, decide, and act. The open-source movement tha…
On July 16, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the first atomic test, known as the Trinity test, in New Mexico. A 20-year restoration effort has produced hundreds of vivid photographs from t…
The next major advancement in Physical AI will not come from more capable robots, but from smarter human-machine interfaces that allow users to interact with machines naturally in real-world environme…
According to the article, total investments in robotics companies reached a record $40.7 billion in 2025, yet a significant gap remains between the promise of AI-powered robots and their real-world ec…
In the late 1940s, engineers at the University of Manchester, including Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and G. E. Thomas, developed Manchester code to solve the problem of unreliable data reading c…
The article explains that the robotics field uses "dull, dirty, and dangerous" (DDD) to describe tasks suitable for automation, but a recent study found that only 2.7% of robotics publications define …
Melbourne is leveraging its expertise in hosting major global events to build a "research flywheel" that combines large-scale AI compute infrastructure, data-intensive research, and international coll…
Researchers have discovered a security vulnerability in large audio-language models (LALMs) that allows attackers to embed imperceptible commands in audio clips, hijacking AI voice systems to execute …
A new study published in Science Advances details electronic rings that wirelessly transmit hand motion data to an AI system capable of translating multiple sign languages into text. The seven-ring sy…