Ukraine’s autonomous killer drones defeat electronic warfare

Ukraine’s autonomous killer drones defeat electronic warfare

After the Estonian startup KrattWorks dispatched the first batch of its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, the company’s officers thought they might have six months or so before they’d need to reconceive the drones in response to new battlefield realities. The 46-centimeter-wide flier was far more robust than the hobbyist-grade UAVs that came … Read more

Nintendo pulls Switch 2 pre-orders in US over Trump tariffs

Nintendo pulls Switch 2 pre-orders in US over Trump tariffs

Nintendo says it will no longer open pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the United States next week, following the introduction of steep tariffs on exports from Japan. The firm unveiled the much-anticipated console on Wednesday, the same day US President Donald Trump announced his sweeping new global tariffs. It said then that US pre-orders … Read more

From MIPS to exaflops in mere decades: Compute power is exploding, and it will transform AI

From MIPS to exaflops in mere decades: Compute power is exploding, and it will transform AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More At the recent Nvidia GTC conference, the company unveiled what it described as the first single-rack system of servers capable of one exaflop — one billion billion, or a quintillion, floating-point operations (FLOPS) per second. This … Read more

Researchers who made miso in space say it tastes good, but different

Researchers who made miso in space say it tastes good, but different

If you were wondering whether it’d be possible to ferment foods in space, the answer is apparently yes. In a study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the US and Denmark say they were able to make decent-tasting miso on the International Space Station — but the flavor and smell was distinct from that … Read more

The Ultimate VPN for Travelers

The Ultimate VPN for Travelers

Some say spring is the best time of the year. Flowers are blooming, and trees are getting more colorful. We, however, tend to travel as soon as we feel the warmth of our beloved Sun. That’s where a VPN comes in! Traveling abroad without proper data protection is borderline dangerous! Public WiFi networks are havens … Read more

BBC seeks more prominent credit in Apple and Google News

BBC seeks more prominent credit in Apple and Google News

The British Broadcasting Corporation has filed a complaint with a UK antitrust regulator complaining that aggregators like Apple News and Google News minimize credit for the stories they feature. Apple Insider reports that the BBC is asking the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to require Apple and Google to more prominently credit news sources. And … Read more