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Nov 18, 2023

Apple’s modem chip project fails to match Qualcomm’s modem technology

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

The company’s journey to make its modem has been long and frustrating.


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As per a Bloomberg report, the iPhone maker, which had planned to launch its chip by next year, will likely miss its target of shipping the component by the spring of 2025, people familiar with the matter said. The chip may debut at the end of 2025 or early 2026, the last year of Apple’s extended contract with Qualcomm.

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Nov 18, 2023

This Book-Filled Swedish Cabin Is a Bibliophile’s Dream

Posted by in category: futurism

Architect Fria Folket positioned a Billy bookcase from Ikea along almost every wall to house the owners’ expansive library.

Nov 18, 2023

These noise-canceling headphones can filter specific sounds on command, thanks to deep learning

Posted by in categories: information science, mobile phones, robotics/AI, transportation

Scientists have built noise-canceling headphones that filter out specific types of sound in real-time — such as birds chirping or car horns blaring — thanks to a deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm.

The system, which researchers at the University of Washington dub “semantic hearing,” streams all sounds captured by headphones to a smartphone, which cancels everything before letting wearers pick the specific types of audio they’d like to hear. They described the protoype in a paper published Oct. 29 in the journa IACM Digital Library.

Nov 18, 2023

What Sam Altman’s surprise sacking means for the AI race

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

It is a big setback for OpenAI, and could slow the industry as a whole | Business.

Nov 18, 2023

Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved.

By Lauren Leffer

Nov 18, 2023

Cryogenic Industries Founder Pledges To Give Nearly All Of His More Than $400 Million Fortune Away To Caltech

Posted by in category: futurism

Engineer Ross M. Brown, who built and sold an industrial conglomerate for more than $400 million, is donating nearly all his wealth to promising mid-career chemistry and physics professors at a range of universities.

Nov 18, 2023

How did time begin, and how will it end?

Posted by in category: futurism

Most things have a beginning and an end, including time itself. What was the spark that made it begin, and what will one day bring it to an end?

Nov 18, 2023

SpaceX Starship launches on 2nd integrated test flight, booster explodes after separation

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX Starship 25 and Super Heavy booster 9 launched to orbit on Nov. 18, 2023 from the Starbase facility in South Texas. Following the launch, the booster had a Rapid Unplanned Disassembly (RUD) shortly after separation.

Starship consists of a first-stage booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known (a bit confusingly) as Starship. Both of these elements are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. SpaceX thinks the vehicle will make the settlement of Mars — a long-held dream of company founder and CEO Elon Musk — economically feasible in the not-too-distant future.

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Nov 18, 2023

What Can Quantum AI Do to the World?

Posted by in categories: media & arts, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Get ready to have your minds blown because Quantum AI is about to flip the script on the world! Imagine computers that don’t just crunch numbers but tap into the mind-bending power of quantum bits or qubits. Quantum AI isn’t just a fancy upgrade; it’s like giving our digital brains a cosmic turbo boost. From supercharging data processing to tackling complex problems like a quantum superhero, this game-changer is set to redefine what we thought computers could do. Get ready for a tech revolution – Quantum AI is the rockstar that’s about to drop a mind-blowing album on the world of computing! 🚀💻🌌

#brightside.

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Nov 18, 2023

Polestar to test StoreDot’s 5-minute fast-charging battery tech

Posted by in category: futurism

StoreDot’s extreme fast charging (XFC) tech delivers 100 miles of range in just five minutes of charging.