File systems: digital magic from coffee makers to TikTok
Whether you’re using a smartphone, laptop, or robot vacuum cleaner, any electronic device has a file system. Without it, websites won’t work, your photos and videos with your pets won’t be available, and so on. Today, we’ll try to briefly understand the basic terms and test the selection of a cluster for disk fragmentation.…
Google Veo 3 video with sound generator is already in Ukraine
Google has announced that a new generative AI model for video creation called Veo 3 is now available in Ukraine presented in May of this year, and now we have expanded its availability.
AI language models have learned to recognize emotions and hidden meaning better than some people
Large AI language models are already capable of recognizing hidden subtext and emotions and other subtleties in the texts on a par with people.
Something went wrong: Intel considers abandoning 18A process
According to unofficial reports, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is considering stopping the promotion of the 18A (1.8 nm) process among lithography customers.
MIT creates a pocket-sized 3D printer that prints objects in seconds
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have created a tiny 3D printer chip-sized device that forms the necessary objects using light in a matter of seconds.
The first nuclear reactor producing energy, hydrogen and clean water is launched in the United States
NuScale Power, a US corporation, together with GSE Solutions, has launched the world’s first fully integrated simulator of hydrogen, electricity and clean water production simultaneously in a small modular nuclear reactor.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is faster than RTX 5070 Ti — new driver adds up to 27% performance
Sometimes drivers improve performance better than hardware changes but this time AMD managed a miracle — the Radeon RX 9070 XT has accelerated by a third.
Q-Code 92: $20,000 PC build fails despite numerous component replacements, including motherboard
A 3D graphics professional was faced with the difficulties that self-assembly of a PC build. Numerous component replacements, including the motherboard, had been unsuccessful.
Super-precise qubits: Oxford reduces quantum computer errors to 1 in 6.7 million
Physicists from Oxford University set a new world record for accuracy management of qubits in a quantum computer.
Thousands of Norwegian residents became «millionaires» due to a mistake in the state lottery code — winnings were overstated by 10,000 times
Last week, a short-lived wave of euphoria swept across Norway as thousands of residents received notifications that they had become millionaires after winning the Eurojackpot lottery. It would seem that everything should have ended with the purchase of luxury cars and housing, but instead, the «winners» received significantly smaller amounts and…
Fusion Google: the company will receive 200 MW from a technology that does not yet exist
Corporation Google has signed an agreement with the American startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems to purchase 200 MW of energy fusion from ARC, the world’s first commercial fusion power plant.
Terahertz instead of gigahertz — quantum material speeds up transistor switching by 1000 times
Researchers from Northeastern University in the United States have found a way to speed up electronics by a thousand times by replacement of silicon chips on quantum materials.
Inno3D has tested the NVIDIA RTX 5050 — no independent tests on the release again
Video card manufacturer Inno3D has released benchmarks for the NVIDIA RTX 5050. Owners of the RTX 4060 8GB have no need to run to the store, but independent tests seem to be coming later.
The first soccer match between robots — they behaved like kids
While people are arguing whether Artificial intelligence will take away our jobsand Boston Dynamics surprises everyone with his workIn China, a less dramatic, but no less interesting experiment took place to demonstrate that robots can jump better than gymnasts. For the first time, a soccer match was held between autonomous humanoid robots. No…
Liquid metal printed circuit boards are self-healing and work despite damage
Scientists from the Virginia Institute of Technology in the United States have created new printed circuit boards with liquid metal, which are self-healing and work effectively even in severe damage.
Starlink at the lowest possible altitude: Sceye airships will distribute Internet from an altitude of 20 km
The American aerospace startup Sceye will launch airships into the stratosphere to provide high-speed Internet access and connectivity to remote areas and natural disaster zones.
The Great Space Show — Netflix will be broadcast by NASA
NASA is teaming up with Netflix, a streaming service that will broadcast the agency’s space missions to millions of viewers around the world.
AMD FSR scaling was tested on a 2012 NVIDIA graphics card — what happened
AMD FSR technology formally supports the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, but will modern software improve the performance of such antiques?
First announcement of XRING O2 — Xiaomi creates a universal chip for smartphones, watches and cars
Xiaomi continues to move towards creating its own technological ecosystem. And it seems that the next important step in this direction will be the second generation of the proprietary XRING chip, which will potentially be able to unite not only smartphones or tablets but also smartwatches and even cars under its «wing».
Indium oxide replaces silicon in a new transistor by Japanese scientists
Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Sciences of the University of Tokyo have developed powerful transistor, by replacing silicon with a crystalline material — gallium-doped indium oxide.
Claude the chatbot ran a «convenience store for a month» — lost $200, went crazy and went to a business meeting with the Simpsons
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 model ran a real food vending machine in their San Francisco office for a month. As a result, things got absurd — even the Simpsons were mentioned.
Nanorobots will crawl into your nose to clean it better than medicine, — Chinese scientists
Researchers from China and Hong Kong have created tiny robots, can penetrate the nose to eliminate congestion and dangerous bacteria.
Streaming 4K from the Moon: NASA tests high-speed laser communication
NASA and the Australian National University are testing the technology high-speed laser communication between the Earth and the Moon.
NVIDIA explains why desktop RTX 5050s have GDDR6, while laptop RTX 5050s have GDDR7 — the explanation is as follows
Many people were surprised by NVIDIA’s decision to use the previous GDDR6 memory standard in RTX 5050 desktop graphics cards, while laptop cards have GDDR7.
Apple iPhone 17 Air's protective glass reveals a camera in a strange place
The iPhone 17 Air is expected to be not just another novelty in Apple’s smartphone lineup, but a real experiment in style, design, and layout. According to preliminary data, it will be the thinnest iPhone of all that the company has produced. But elegance comes at a price: in the pursuit of minimalism, Apple seems to have sacrificed battery…
Danish residents to receive copyright on body, voice and face to protect against AI
Denmark is planning to introduce the first rules in Europe to protect citizens from AI dipshits and grant them copyright to their own body, voice, and facial features.
Researchers improve gold extraction from old electronics
Researchers from the University of Flinders in Australia have developed a safer method of gold extraction and recovery from ore and electronic waste.
Asus unveils RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti BTF with hidden GC-HPWR power connector
ASUS has updated its proprietary BTF series of graphics cards. This time, the company has focused not only on technical specifications but also on ease of assembly. The new models in the series — GeForce RTX 5090 ROG Astral and RTX 5070 Ti TUF — have an innovative approach to power supply: now the power cable can be completely hidden from view.
New AMD procedural tree generation — 52 KB VRAM instead of 34.8 GB, dynamic season change and GPU-only detail
Despite the best efforts of engineers, naturalistic vegetation in games still requires a lot of memory and computing resources. AMD seems to be proposing radical changes.
Li-Fi instead of Wi-Fi — connection up to 224 Gbps in the visible light spectrum
Researchers from the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science proposed a new platform for high-speed wireless transmission Li-Fi data.
NVIDIA DLSS Transformer Model scaling is out of beta
NVIDIA announces DLSS Transformer Model at the CES 2025 exhibition. The frame scaling model improves ray reconstruction in DLSS 4, DLAA, and ultra-high resolution quality.
Prove you're not a robot: how bots quietly took over the Internet in 2024
If you think that the Internet is not what it used to be, you’re right. A new study (and not just one) has shown that most traffic no longer comes from people. We officially lost control of the global network back in 2024. Bots (programs that interact with websites in an automated manner) have been […]
Ultrasound helps to detect defects in a Li-ion battery before it explodes
Researchers from Drexel University in Philadelphia (USA) have developed a process for diagnosing Li-ion batteries to identify possible defects and prevent their thermal acceleration.
Microsoft Mu — a small AI model running completely locally in Windows 11 settings
It seems that Microsoft thought that Windows didn’t have enough artificial intelligence, and so decided to add it right into «Settings». After all, you need something to load the neural units available in modern chips. Company introduced a small language model Mu that will help users find settings faster in Windows 11.
The future of processors: MIT has developed a technology for creating chips from gallium nitride
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have developed a relatively inexpensive and scalable technology for combining high-speed gallium nitride transistors with standard silicon chips.
Voice from OpenAI: In Versailles, tourists will be able to talk to statues instead of listening to a guide
The administration of the Palace of Versailles in France has announced a partnership with OpenAI and the French startup Ask Mona to voice about 20 of garden statues using AI as an alternative to a traditional audio guide.
Ceramic batteries that last 50% longer and do not catch fire are being prepared for mass production
Ion Storage Systems, a small company based in Beltsville, Maryland, is slowly changing the rules of the energy game. It started as a university project and now has its own small-scale production and government funding, including from the U.S. Department of Energy. Pros version The Wall Street Journal, this company may be the one to finally realize…
Alternative to air conditioning — new paint that «sweats», effectively absorbs heat
Researchers from Singapore have created special paint, which effectively absorbs heat even in high humidity conditions.
China's new mosquito drone will spy completely unnoticed
Chinese researchers from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) have created tiny drone, the mosquito-like bug is capable of conducting reconnaissance and spying unnoticed.
Electric transport consumes energy in the cold — scientists have found out why and how to deal with it
Scientists from the Cornell University in the United States, together with Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT), found that electric vehicles consume significantly more energy in cold weather.
New solar cells convert weak office light into electricity with 38% efficiency
A group of Taiwanese scientists from the National Taiwan University Yang Ming Jiaotong has developed innovative perovskite solar cells are capable of generating electricity from low interior light.
Microsoft improves the accuracy of quantum computing by 1000 times
Microsoft programmers say they’ve managed to develop a new way to fix bugs in quantum computing using innovative 4D coding.
GPS replacement — quantum diamond magnetometer changes navigation
German researchers from the Institute Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Solid State Physics has created a compact quantum magnetometer, which accurately measures extremely small magnetic fields.
Largest DDoS attack in history — 37.4 TB of data in 45 seconds
Internet security company Cloudflare has announced that it has repelled a record-breaking DDoS attack. One of its customers received 7.3 Tbps of unwanted traffic, totaling 37.4 TB.
The new display supports 1 million FPS — it's not for gaming, it's for 1Tbps data transfer
The X Display Company (XDC) has introduced a high-speed display capable of 1 million FPS. Gamers may one day rejoice at this technology, but it’s not for gaming.
Elon Musk promises to fix it: Grok talks about the outbreak of right-wing violence under Trump's presidency
Elon Musk likes to call those who disagree with him «fake media» — this time it’s his own chatbot Grok from xAI.
Gmail is under threat: Russian hackers bypass multifactor authentication, Ukraine is also mentioned
How is it possible to hack Gmail multifactor authentication? Access from apps plus social engineering.
A risk expert: «It is better to advise to get a face tattoo than to learn to program»
A risk analyst would not advise children to learn to program now. When it comes to risks, we are talking about the development of AI, which is actually destroying low-skilled coding.
How will computer networks work at space distances, — answers from the scientist
Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College in the United States Siddhartha Jayanti asked how the computer networks at great distances in deep space.
Neural texture compression on NVIDIA RTX 50 and Intel — YouTuber shows an exciting demo
NTC texture compression is undemanding to video memory and offers realistic quality. NVIDIA’s Blackwell graphics cards are specifically «tailored» for neural rendering.
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