3D printer prints soft robot in one piece — scientists experiment with mass production
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have printed a soft robot suitable for mass production on a 3D printer in 9 hours.
OpenAI’s GPT-4o is capable of cognitive dissonance — model changed opinion of putin during the study
Researchers from Harvard University in the United States have discovered the ability to models of artificial intelligence GPT-4o from OpenAI to change your mind.
Laser qubits in the sky over Long Island — scientists test quantum communication in the air
American scientists plan to implement a project to test quantum communication in free space. Using lasers, they want to launch qubits over the Long Island Sound.
DeepSeek R1 updated: an improved model with 685 billion parameters is now available on Hugging Face
In the world of modern information technologies, the struggle to create the smartest AI model has long gone beyond Silicon Valley. Chinese developers are actively catching up with Western giants, and in this race, DeepSeek has announced a new version of its powerful R1 model posted on the Hugging Face platformwhere developers from all over the…
Grok is coming to Telegram — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot from xAI becomes the official assistant of the messenger
In your channel Telegram Pavel Durov has announced a one-year partnership with xAI. Grok chatbot will be tightly integrated into the messenger.
Rare Bluetooth profiles you never knew existed
In the previous article we have reviewed Bluetooth audio codecs used to listen to music. However, codecs are only a small part of the «iceberg» of technologies that are needed not only to play music. That’s why today we’re going to look at Bluetooth profiles, without which we couldn’t even hear our loved ones, and […]
Lunar miners: a harvester for collecting helium-3 was shown in the USA
The American startup Interlune has presented a full-fledged prototype of a lunar harvester for collecting helium-3 (3He), which is in short supply on Earth, but in sufficient quantities on our satellite.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei: Apple is no longer creative, future smartphones will have only one app
Carl Pei from Nothing spoke about his vision of the smartphone market and technology in general, including AI, and the place of his company in the future.
Hide your SMS: the Chinese read text at a distance of 1.3 km with a laser without any optics
Scientists from the Chinese University of Science and Technology used a laser to read an 8-mm letter on a board mounted on the roof of a house 1.3 km away.
«I’m going to kidnap you»: Google co-founder advises to threaten AI with physical violence» to make it work better
Google co-founder Sergey Brin seems to have found an effective way to overcome the hallucinations of AI chatbots — simply threaten them with physical violence.
Fuel for airplanes straight from the air — new MIT development absorbs carbon dioxide
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have developed a sodium-air fuel cell, which can power heavy electric vehicles, including airplanes.
«Useless form factor»: Tesla Optimus exec thinks humanoid robots are superfluous
The human body has evolved to adapt to other than warehouse or industrial work. The former head of the Optimus group at Tesla believes that non-humanoid robots are needed for these jobs.
A computer in a typewriter case «pulls» vintage games
This computer with a slightly strange keyboard layout on the case was actually once an Optima SP 26 typewriter. Reddit user maniek-86 turned it into a PC.
Artificial intelligence has spontaneously learned to see like a human
Japanese researchers from Osaka University have discovered the ability of generative artificial intelligence models Vision Transformers (ViT) spontaneously develop mechanisms visual processing of information similar to humans.
Cyborg jellyfish with remote control will explore the ocean
Scientists from Japan have developed a mechanism that allows control the movement jellyfish to be used for ocean research and monitoring.
A new era of heat pumps: flexible alloy heats and cools 20 times better during deformation
Specialists from the The School of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a new flexible alloy made of titanium and niobium, which heats up when stretched and cools down when compressed.
TSMC chooses MicroLEDs over lasers for optical data transmission inside data centers
Leading chip manufacturer and semiconductors TSMC teams up with California-based startup Avicena to optimize photodetector arrays in interconnects MicroLED-based LightBundle for data centers.
Has it started? OpenAI’s smartest AI models refuse to shut down on direct orders
During the study, the latest o3, o4-mini, and Codex-mini models from OpenAI refused to follow a direct order and bypassed the shutdown script. This is despite the fact that the engineer told them «please».
Micron PCIe 6.0 SSD with 30.25 Gbps speed debuts at Computex 2025
Solid state drives for PCIe 5.0 with transfer rates of 12-15 Gbps are no longer a surprise. But Micron decided to surprise with an SSD with a sequential read/write speed of 30.25 Gbps.
Playing ahead: Zoom boss has replaced himself with AI, his avatar leads financial meetings
Zoom boss Eric Yuan played a proactive role in the race between artificial intelligence and humansby creating its own AI avatar, which now attends boring financial meetings instead.
One cable for everything: Sparkle shows off Intel video card with Thunderbolt 5
One of the new products shown at Computex 2025 that definitely deserves the attention of computer enthusiasts is the Sparkle Thunderbolt video card. This concept can give new life to something that once seemed lost – video output via USB-C in video cards. If you use displays with USB Type-C or dream of a simple connection «one cable», this…
World’s first petahertz transistor created in the USA — will speed up computing by a million times
A group of researchers from the University of Arizona, The Jet Propulsion Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology and Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich have created the first ultrafast photonic transistor, capable of speed up calculations a million times.
«Rewrite the chapter in the style of J. Brie»: the writer published a book with «forgotten» promos for ChatGPT
The writer used a promo for ChatGPT — for her novel, but forgot to remove references to it.
Solar panels can provide up to 85% of Japan’s electricity needs, — study
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have found that solar panels on rooftops and electric cars could provide up to 85% of the country’s electricity needs.
Steam Deck in your head — Valve is preparing its Neuralink, chip for it will appear this year
Gabe Newell wants your brain. Valve has long had plans for a neural interface, but the specifics are currently limited to the development of a chip for it.
MSI shows off PinSafe Design — motherboards won’t scratch fingers with sharp soldering spikes
Anyone who has ever assembled a computer on their own knows the feeling — scratched fingers, pinched skin, invisible wounds from sharp contacts on the back of the motherboard. But it seems that MSI has decided to put an end to this. At Computex 2025, the company showed an updated concept — PinSafe Design. It is designed to save users from…
DOGE Musk used «someone else’s AI» to check officials — Llama 2 from Meta, not Grok
The DOGE team, headed by Elon Musk, did not analyze the responses of federal employees with their own Grok model. They «borrowed» Llama 2 from Meta.
The tallest building created by 3D printing was built in Switzerland
The Swiss village of Mulens has completed the construction of a 30-meter white Tor Alva tower printed on a 3D printer, which has now become the world’s tallest building created with 3D printing.
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4 — an AI model for programmers that is prone to blackmail
The Anthropic Claude Opus 4 model is not only helps with writing code, but can also do everything possible to prevent the user from turning to another system.
Data theft on Intel systems at 5 KB per second — scientists find processor vulnerability
Cybersecurity experts from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have discovered a serious vulnerability in all modern Intel processors, which allows attackers to steal users’ personal data.
Fuses for NVIDIA RTX: a gamer created a monster cable to prevent anything from melting
Reddit user malcanore18 has already had problems with damage and repair of his NVIDIA RTX 4090. So he decided to create something that would prevent connectors and cables from melting.
Thermal imager in the eye — scientists test contact lenses
Scientists from the The Chinese University of Science and Technology has created contact lenses, that allow you to see infrared light.
Home Wi-Fi quality will decline in the next 5 years, 6 GHz band «on the verge of depletion», — CableLabs analysts
CableLabs, a research laboratory established by US cable operators back in the 1980s, claims that the rapid growth in Wi-Fi usage could lead to the 6 GHz bandwidth approaching the «— depletion limit, resulting in a potential deterioration in the quality and speed of home wireless networking in the next 5 years.
Twice the cooling — nanofilms the size of a grain of sand send compressors and refrigerants to the landfill
Scientists from the Laboratory of Applied Physics of the University Johns Hopkins has developed an innovative cooling technology due to solid-state thermoelectric cells.
New OLED technology makes every pixel an acoustic speaker
Scientists from South Korea have developed an innovative Pixel-Based Local Sound OLED technology that allows each individual pixel in an OLED panel to produce sound.
Like a «adult» video card: Adreno control panel with Steam support for Snapdragon X PCs
Built into Snapdragon processors Adreno video card There are obviously no performance settings, especially on the PC. Qualcomm has fixed it.
Manufacturer of $6000 Procolored printers infected users’ systems with malware
Nowadays, we’re used to the fact that even the most expensive devices can sometimes have flaws — but rarely do you expect a professional printer costing several thousand dollars to bring dangerous malware with it. Yet that’s exactly what happened to customers of Procolored, a brand that specializes in direct-to-shirt printers for…
Wind turbine without rotating parts generates energy using piezoelectricity
Researchers from India have created a simple wind turbine made of a flexible polymer sheet with piezoelectric elements.
Google Beam introduces futuristic 3D video calls — with voice translation
A few years ago, Google introduced Project Starline, an experiment to rethink video calling. It has evolved into «a new 3D communications platform» Google Beam.
Google launches ultra-low-cost AI subscription for $250 per month with 30 TB of storage and YouTube Premium to boot
Google outbids the competition in AI prices all the closest competitors with the launch of a new AI Ultra subscription that will cost $250 per month; the previous premium tariff «AI Premium» is renamed «Google AI Pro» with the same price of $20.
World’s smallest semiconductor structure used to produce «pure» hydrogen
For the first time in history, scientists from South Korea have received an environmentally friendly pure hydrogen, using an ultra-small quantum semiconductor material as a photoelectrode.
Google has created an «AI fitting of» clothes online — right in the search results
Google has announced a new feature — now you can stop guessing what you look like in your clothes and try them on virtually «try them on».
Audio codecs in simple terms, or how to get the most out of your Bluetooth headphones
When you buy new wireless headphones, the specifications table may contain abbreviations that are unknown to many people. For example, AAC or aptX. They are needed to transmit sound «over the air» from your smartphone or laptop to potential headphones. In this article, we will analyze the most common audio codecs. What is an audio […]
Laptops with NVIDIA RTX 50 have improved performance and driver consumption — the result is noticeable
NVIDIA has fixed one of the biggest problems with laptops with GeForce RTX 50 — graphics cards without mentioning it in the official release notes (only later in the forum).
Google Meet has learned to translate your voice — and sound like you
The world of messengers is changing dynamically. While Microsoft withdraws Skype from the marketGoogle continues to actively develop Meet and add new features to it. During the Google I/O conference, the search giant introduced a new feature in Meet: during video calls, the service can automatically translate your speech into another language. This…
New decentralized AI chip works without cloud and internet
Researchers at the Munich Institute of Technology (TUM) in Germany have created a tiny chip artificially intelligent computer capable of performing real-time computations, similar to the human brain, without the need for an Internet connection and the use of cloud services.
Intel unveils Arc Pro B50 and B60 graphics cards for professionals: up to 24 GB of memory, AI focus, and prices starting at $299
As well as expectedAt Computex 2025, Intel made a loud statement in the field of professional graphics and AI. The chipmaker introduced a new line of Arc Pro B-series graphics cards aimed at workstations for graphics, rendering, machine learning, and design. The main emphasis is not only on performance but also on a large amount of memory and…
8.6 MJ: the United States doubled the capacity of the NIF thermonuclear reactor
Researchers from the Livermore National Laboratory in the United States for the first time were able to obtain 8.6 megajoules of energy from the experiment controlled fusion.
What happens if you take a picture of a car’s lidar with your smartphone? A Reddit user made a video and regretted it
We’d like to warn you right away, don’t do it again. It is also better not to do it accidentally. Jeguetelli from Reddit conducted an interesting but unpleasant experiment with lidar.
«Matrix: Start» — researchers powered 350 LEDs from the human body
Researchers at the University of Alabama in the United States have used duct tape from a store to create a triboelectric nanogenerator capable of collect electricity from the human body and the environment.
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