Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10,000 if a Data Center Gets Built
Many Pennsylvania residents in Hazle Township are pushing back against the data center, despite the lure of the cash payout.
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Opinion | The U.S. Tariff Attack on U.S. Biotech
New Trump border taxes arrive Tuesday and are a gift to Xi Jinping.
This Startup Is Using AI to Fight Off a Future AI Pandemic
Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design antibody drugs for novel pathogens—before future AI systems create them.
How NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency
Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a…
Out of the Park Baseball lets me enjoy baseball even when the Mets suck
If you were to ask me what game or game series I’ve sunk the most time into, the answer would be easy: Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP). I have spent roughly 2,300 hours, according to Steam, playing various editions of the game. OOTP isn’t like MLB The Show or Super Mega Baseball. It’s not…
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn’t Suno in a box, though. This isn’t a “push-button, get-song” device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40…
Jury says Apple owes $5.7 billion after finding Taptic Engine infringed haptic technology patents in iPhones and Apple Watches
A U.S. jury has handed Apple a staggering $5.7 billion patent verdict after finding that the Taptic Engine inside iPhones and Apple Watches infringed haptic technology patents owned by San Diego-based Taction Technology. The verdict, delivered Friday in the U.S. […] The post Jury says Apple owes $5.7 billion after finding Taptic Engine infringed haptic…
How to Know When the AI Boom Is About to Go Bust
History shows that market manias end when the capital spigot turns off.
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your connected devices, follow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started A decade ago, a…
Googlebooks might be the real deal
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 145, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I’m happy to be done traveling for a bit, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I flew to San Francisco to try out…