Companion’s Director and Cast on Its Gruesome Finish and Future

Companion’s Director and Cast on Its Gruesome Finish and Future

Pre-release marketing for Warner Bros.’ Companion might’ve had you certain the entire game was given away. That is and isn’t true: yeah, Iris (Sophie Thatcher) learns she’s a robot, and you can make an educated guess what happens next. But for writer/director Drew Hancock and its two leads, getting there was a bit of a creative … Read more

These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea

These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea

When I spoke with Guldin in December, after the first stage of the pilot had finished, he sketched a rough vision of what this work could look like in the not-too-distant future. Robotic crawlers equipped with cameras, powerful lights, sonar, and upgraded grabber systems might be used to pick up munitions more efficiently than the … Read more

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng receives a hero’s welcome back home

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng receives a hero’s welcome back home

DeepSeek founder Lian Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up and reportedly returned for the Lunar New Year, joined by bodyguards. Wenfeng—who, at 40, is already a billionaire due to his hedge fund, High-Flyer—is apparently even more beloved by locals following DeepSeek’s breakthrough research, … Read more

Will Cryptomining Facilities Change Into AI Data Centers?

Will Cryptomining Facilities Change Into AI Data Centers?

To capitalize on the AI boom, many crypto miners “have begun to repurpose parts of their operations into data centers,” reports Reuters, “given they already have most of the infrastructure” (including landing and “significant” power resources…) Toronto-based bitcoin miner Bitfarms has enlisted two consultants to explore how it can transform some of its facilities to … Read more

How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time

How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time

Although 4 billion addresses seemed near infinite in 1974, by the early 1990s it was already evident that the Internet would soon run out of IP (IPv4) addresses, necessary for computers to be connected to the Internet. Work on the next generation of IP, IPv6, was to increase the number of routable network addresses from … Read more