Thursday, August 27

Technology

There are lots of cool mini gadgets that you can buy, featuring useful functions within compact designs. Some of them will provide immediate solutions to different problems that you may encounter in your daily life, so you’d want them to always be within reach — like the keychain in your pocket

The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $90 million over five years to support three new NSF Science and Technology Centers (NSF STC). These centers will advance American leadership in science and technology, strengthen the nation’s STEM workforce, and accelerate innovation in fields ranging from artificial intelligence and biotechnology to fusion energy and robotics

The large data movement required in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads has exposed the fundamental limits of electrical interconnects, where resistive losses, capacitive loading and frequency-dependent distortion increasingly constrain bandwidth, latency and energy efficiency. Optical compute interconnects, which replace electrical links with co-packaged photonic channels, could provide low propagation loss, high bandwidth and superior…

It should not come as a surprise that some tech executive is trumpeting the singularity despite all evidence to the contrary. It should perhaps be a bit surprising that the claim is coming from payment processor Stripe. According to Axios, the company—which recently purchased AI marketplace OpenRouter—told shareholders that not only are we living in…

Japan’s NEC Corporation has been awarded a contract for “Research on Underwater Acoustic Foundation Models Using Self-Supervised Learning (Part 1),” with a focus on dual-use applications, as part of a program conducted by the Defense Innovation Science and Technology Institute of Japan’s Agency for Defense Equipment

Economy News

On August 20, Atour Lifestyle Holdings (NASDAQ:ATAT) held its second-quarter earnings call, and the numbers made clear why the stock has become one of the more closely watched Chinese consumer names this year. Net revenues jumped 41.4% year over year to RMB 3,490 million, with both the hotel and retail arms of the business accelerating…

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