Virgin Hyperloop recently fired half of its workforce as the company is shifting its focus from transporting passengers to cargo, Financial Times reported. Services of a total of 111 members of its staff were terminated in what was an unanticipated move according to the employees. A company spokesperson told FT Read more…
India’s teen chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 16, just become the youngest person to defeat Magnus Carlsen (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), 31, since he became world champion in 2013. While his defeat of Carlsen, who has been struggling from the aftereffects of a Covid-19 infection, does not affect the International Read more…
An object hidden below ground has been located using quantum technology — a long-awaited milestone with profound implications for industry, human knowledge and national security. University of Birmingham researchers from the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing have reported their achievement in Nature. It is the first Read more…
The hottest spot in crypto right now is coins with prices that don’t move. Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies which peg their value to assets such as the U.S. dollar, have ballooned in size over the past few months as Bitcoin and other coins whipsaw. The total market capitalization of stablecoins currently stands Read more…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea risks reverberating across the global chip industry and exacerbating current supply-chain constraints. Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas critical for lasers used in chipmaking and supplies more than 90% of U.S. semiconductor-grade neon, according to estimates from research firm Read more…
Microsoft has revealed it operates a planet-scale distributed scheduling service for AI workloads that it has modestly dubbed “Singularity.” Described in a pre-press paper [PDF] co-authored by 26 Microsoft employees, Singularity’s aim is described as helping the software giant control costs by driving high utilization for deep learning workloads. Singularity Read more…
Elon Musk said that Tesla is working to make Steam’s library of video games work on its onboard vehicle computer. As we previously reported, Tesla has a team of software engineers working on video games in Seattle and they recently started building a similar team in Austin. The automaker has Read more…