Gaming companies are reportedly the next targets in the US government’s potentially broader Tencent purge – TechCrunch

Some of the biggest names in online gaming in the United States have received letters from…

How AI will automate cybersecurity in the post-COVID world

As cybercrime is becoming more lucrative and more automated, we’re going to have to depend on…

Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs

The company claims the technique, dubbed 3d parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements…

Physicist: The entire universe might be a neural network

We live inside a neural network, he says, not a simulation — “but we might never…

A robot wrote this entire article. Does that scare you, human? | GPT-3

My brain is not a “feeling brain” but it is capable of making rational, logical decisions.…

This tiny nuclear reactor just won safety approval

A nuclear power startup called NuScale has received safety approval for its tiny nuclear reactor. The…

I’m Sorry Dave, You Shouldn’t Write Verilog

We were always envious of Star Trek, for its computers. No programming needed. Just tell the…

Watch the first ever demo of a self-powered electronic paper interface

Scientists have developed a method of turning paper into keyboards that can convert notebooks into music…

Facebook open-sources Opacus, a PyTorch library for differential privacy

Facebook’s Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable…

iOS 14: Facebook’s Apple Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse

Soon-to-launch iOS 14 is a momentous leap for iPhone privacy, but this week Facebook confirmed its…

Neuralink demonstrates its next-generation brain-machine interface

During a press conference held online, Elon Musks Neuralink gave a progress update on its ambitious…

Fix For Potential SSD-Damaging Bug Coming in Windows Update – ExtremeTech

Microsoft is rolling out a fix for an SSD defrag bug introduced in the 2004 update…

Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it

California company NDB says its nano-diamond batteries will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny…

The USB Null Modem Cable Is Now A Thing

The classic serial null-modem cable was, among other things, used to connect two computers together for…

Solved astronomy mystery after just one year at university

Three first-year students have found a way to detect violent explosions in distant galaxies. Now, one…

Pysa: A Tool to Prevent Security Vulnerabilities in Python | Hacker Noon

Pysa is an acronym for python static analyzer. It checks code and analyzes how data flows…

Stealing Keys From The Sound Of The Lock

If you are smart, you wouldn’t hand your house key over to a stranger for a…

Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing

Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in…

iPhone and iPad photos permanently wiped, as Adobe bungles iOS Lightroom app update | ZDNet

Lightroom iOS users learn a hard lesson in backing up photos, but Adobe doesn’t even offer…

An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator

A university student edited OpenStreetMap data and created a hilarious Microsoft Flight Simulator glitch Read more…