The case for fixing everything
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a...
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How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their...
Read moreTSMC warns of Intel Foundry’s growing prowess during the company’s latest earnings call — ‘We view Intel as our formidable competitor and do not underestimate them’
By now, TSMC has become a much bigger chipmaker than Intel has ever been, but the world’s top foundry still calls its American peer a ‘formidable’...
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New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1
All of the hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel…
Read moreNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Returns in June, RTX 5050 9 GB Edition on Pause
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB “Ampere” GPU, which is two generations old, is expected to make a comeback in June this year. Meanwhile, the rumored...
Read moreSpoofed Tankers Are Flooding the Strait of Hormuz. These Analysts Are Tracking Them
Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in...
Read moreAfter a month of haggling with players, Mega Crit make Slay the Spire 2’s beta patches official, with big character reworks alongside new art and scoring systems
Slay the Spire 2 has received a major update that rolls all of the additions, tweaks and fixes from recent beta updates into the main branch...
Read moreQingzhou prototype cargo spacecraft completes rendezvous tests in orbit
China has conducted rendezvous and proximity operations tests involving a prototype cargo spacecraft and a satellite in a step towards low-cost orbital infrastructure. The post Qingzhou...
Read moreFiraxis reveal Civilization 7’s not good enough at building attack maths, tanking its late-game performance – a patch/tutor is here
Band of soldiers + building. What does that equal, Civ 7? It’s ok, stop panicking. I know you’ve been struggling with some late-game maths, and Firaxis...
Read morePresentation: Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform out There
Matheus Albuquerque shares strategies for optimizing a massive CX platform, moving from React 15 and Webpack 1 to modern standards. He discusses using AST-based codemods for...
Read moreThe Call of Duty movie gets a release date, but can it continue the trend of popular video game adaptations?
A Call of Duty movie is set to release on 30th June, 2028. Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan and Battleship’s Pete Berg will be writing and directing the...
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