2026 Looks Big for Quantum Computing Real-World Deployment

'Ghost Murmur' Used to Locate Downed Airman Was Trump's Bogus Reference to an Actual Technology

The apparent reference was to the quantum magnetometer, medical technology used to detect faint heartbeat anomalies.

Alexander Wang's Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases First AI Model

Muse Spark is the product of a series of rapid billion-dollar acquisitions Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg and is said to be exceptionally compact but ...

Nvidia's Buy of Main Supercomputer Software Raises AI Chip Neutrality Concerns

SchedMD, which owns Slurm, the leading open-source software for supercomputers, would let Nvidia produce software updates favoring its own chips over those of rival chipmakers ...

China's Open-Source AI Dominates Global Downloads, Threatens US Leadership

Lower cost and ease of customization of parameters make AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot and MiniMax more popular globally than models from OpenAI and ...

Xiaomi's Lei Jun Quadruples AI Budget to $8.7 Billion As MiMo-V2-Pro Excites Developers

The new agentic AI model developed by Xiaomi's youthful female-led research team, and recently released anonymously, has already racked up 1.5 trillion tokens and rave ...

Nvidia-Backed Nuro Begins Tokyo Test of Human-Like Zero-Shot Autonomy Vehicles

Unlike Tesla and Waymo the Nuro self-driving vehicles use an autonomy stack that doesn't depend on location-specific street maps.

Air Optics Revamps Fiber Optics for Faster, Cooler Data Transmission

Glass tubes will not only surpass glass fiber in transmitting data faster and more cheaply, but also make quantum communications more reliable.

Who Will Win the Race to Land a Crew on the Moon?

The complexity inherent in SpaceX's grand ambition to do the job using fully reusable vehicles creates room for delays that make this a true horse ...

Why the Silicon Chip Was Most Likely Inspired by UFO Debris

Within months of the July 1947 Roswell UFO crash the transistor emerged and evolved quickly into microchips, supporting insider accounts of alien inspiration for human ...

When Will Photonics Supersede Silicon?

Photonics' promise as the speed- and energy-efficient alternative to silicon chips is being fulfilled in increments, starting with specialized applications.

ASML Keeps Lock on EUV Lithography for AI Chip Boom

The Dutch maker of the world's only EUV chip printing machines is riding high on the boom created by AI leader Nvidia.

The Korean American Engineer Who Enabled the Microprocessor

Dawon Kahng figured out how to make transistors scalable and power-efficient enough to be packed into today's microprocessors by the billions.

Microsoft Maia 200 Joins Wave of Competition for Nvidia's AI Chips

The Maia 200 will join AI chips from Google and Amazon as potential alternatives in a segment in which Nvidia is likely to retain its ...

2 Asian Immigrants Were Behind "Alien" Fiber Optics Technology

The pioneering work of Narinder Singh Kapany and Charles Kao laid the groundwork for fiber optics technology which some believe was reverse-engineered from a UFO ...

UK Crewless Helicopter to Patrol Seas, Hunt Submarines

The Royal Navy's first full-sized autonomous helicopter will carry out missions that would be physically taxing and potentially dangerous for human crews.

SiFive to Adopt Nvidia's NVLink for Fast CPU-Nvidia GPU Link

SiFive will be the first maker of RISC-V chip designs to integrate its chip blueprints with Nvidia's AI GPUs.

This Man Wants to Put a Nuclear Reactor in Your Backyard

Yasir Arafat's Aalo microreactor may solve the energy problem while preserving a green and safe planet.

Robots Could Be Coming to Your Home in 2026

Humanoid robots are moving from the prototype era to real-world use and 2026 is looking to be the beginning of a world where humans and ...

Quantum Computing Is the Next Great Disruptor

From simulating complex cancer-fighting molecules to threatening global encryption, the quantum era is arriving faster than the AI revolution.

The US Owes a Strategic Future Tech Industry to Asian Immigrants

Synthetic Biology, the most transformative of future industries, was built from the ground up by immigrant innovations.

10 Most Significant Synthetic DNA Advances of 2025

This year's milestones in synthetic biology have been, if not miracles, certainly the makings of miraculous advances to come shortly in medicine and bio-engineering.

Hyundai's Boston Dynamics to Debut New Atlas Humanoid Robot

Using electric motors instead of hydraulics allows the new Atlas to be more dexterous, stronger and able to operate outside the assembly-line context.

A Pill to Extend Your Dog's Healthspan

Clinical-stage biotech company Loyal is developing the first FDA-approved longevity drug for dogs, a breakthrough that could completely change veterinary and human medicine.

Commercial Fusion Power Faces 3 More Epic Tech Hurdles

The sheer amount of time and money needed to overcome these hurdles may relegate fusion power to the permanent status of an expensive scientific toy ...

Zara, H&M Use AI Clones to Reduce Photo Shoots

Fast-fashion houses turn to AI-generated images of actual human models to reduce photo shoots while producing more images as they seek to move upmarket amid ...

China's EUV Manhattan Project Seeks to Match ASML

With the help of ex-ASML engineers and massive recruiting budgets a deep black Chinese project has built a prototype of a machine capable of using ...

Google Challenges Nvidia by Adjusting Its TPUs to Meta's PyTorch

Google's TorchTPU initiative seeks to make its TPU chipsets a more universally accessible rival to Nvidia GPUs.

AI's Jagged Edge Gives Grief to Early Business Adopters

Optimistic businesses that adopted AI to meet labor-intensive needs have struggled with a technology that can do many wonderful things but often fail at trivial ...

Federal Government to Hire 1,000 AI Engineers

A Trump plan to revamp government includes a campaign to hire 1,000 AI engineers, with pledges by Apple, Google and Nvidia to hire the program's ...

Nvidia Defends Open Source AI LLM Turf with Nemotron Nano

Nvidia releases its 3rd-gen open-source large language AI model as adoption surges of open-source models from Chinese AI developers like DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibana's ...

China Approves 2 EVs Not Tesla for Level-3 Self-Driving

EVs from state-owned Changan Auto and BAIC Motor were approved to operate with level-3 self-driving in designated areas of Chongqing and Beijing, surpassing Tesla's partially ...

Home Brain Stimulator for Depression Approved by FDA

The Flow Neuroscience brain stimulation device will become available in the 2nd quarter of 2026.

How to Raise Venture Capital For Your Tech Startup

Raising venture funding to ramp up your idea is all about showing yourself to be someone who has done the homework to understand the scale ...

Taikonauts Install Debris Shields on Tiangong

After the windshield of the Shenzhou-21 was cracked by debris and deemed unsafe to carry taikonauts back to earth, a team conducted a space walk ...

Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses a Hit but Face Privacy Concerns

The popular glasses face competition from Google, Amazon and Xiaomi but face prospects of a ban in the EU on concerns that it can be ...

How Nvidia's H200 Stacks Up Against Chinese AI Chips and Blackwell

The decision to allow H200 chips to be exported to China would significantly improve its AI capabilities but not nearly as much as Nvidia's Blackwell ...

Google Joins Newest Race to Power AI from Space

Skyrocketing AI data-center energy demands drive Google’s radical orbital data center project which aims to tap the sun directly to access “one hundred trillion times ...

20 Most Credible UFO Sightings of 2025 in S. Korea

The large number of credible sightings in a country the size of Indiana suggests that S. Korea is a hotbed of UFO activity.

The Future of Walking Begins With Dephy

The world’s first commercial robotic exoskeleton footwear is in the works as Nike partners with bionic footwear company, Dephy.

Invisibility? X-Ray Vision? Coming Soon

Metamaterials are turning science fiction superpowers into practical real-world capabilities.

The 3 Big Advances Likely to Precede Quantum Computing Rollout

We're likely to see three technologies that will dramatically advance computing and lay the technological groundwork for producing and implementing practical quantum computing.

Alibaba's Quark AI Glasses to Take on Apple, Meta Globally

The Chinese e-commerce and payment processing giant has positioned the glasses as a life assistant with plans to compete against offerings from Apple, Meta and ...

Blue Origin Announces Super Heavy Variant of New Glenn

Jeff Bezos gets serious about dethroning SpaceX in the orbital launch business with plans for the New Glenn 9x4 that will add 4 engines to ...

New Menlo Micro Switching Chips Speed Up Nvidia Testing

The bottleneck created by outdated chip testing equipment has been eased by a new Menlo Micro switching chip that speeds up AI chip testing by ...

Will Quantum Computing Obsolete Chipmaking?

State-of-the-art chipmaking that begins with ASML lithography and proceeds to the intricate process technologies developed by TSMC, Samsung and Intel will continue being essential in ...

The EUV Device that Enables Advanced Nvidia, Samsung and Intel Chips

It took almost 40 years for ASML, a Dutch company once partly owned by Intel, TSMC and Samsung, to become the ultimate gatekeeper for cutting-edge ...

Humanity's Biggest Toy Throws Off Knowledge, Technologies

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest, costliest science experiment but the investment has produced an abundance of scientific advances and technologies since operations ...

IBM's New Loon Chip Targets Useful Quantum Computing

Progress in its intricate error-correction technology lets IBM project 2029 for achieving commercially useful quantum computing with the new Loon chip.

AI Music Indistinguishable from Real Thing for 97%

A survey of 9,000 across eight nations shows AI music to be practically indistinguishable from human-created compositions.