For the last four years, Steve Tuck and Bryan Cantrill have toiled in relative stealth mode with their startup Oxide Computer in a bid to remake hardware for the cloud computing era. On Oct. 26, Oxide emerged from stealth with a $44 million series A round of funding and an impressive new approach for cloud…
Straughn High School Robotics Club advances to regionals after ‘BEST’ performance Published 11:00 am Saturday, October 28, 2023 Members of the Robotics Club at Straughn High School competed in a BEST Robotics competition in Troy on Saturday, Oct. 21. Taught by Stephen Bowen, the class turns its attention to the BEST regional competition at the…
As generative AI fever has swept the tech world, one of the most hyped use cases has been the ability for large models to write computer programmes. French startup Poolside recently raised a $126m seed round to build a ChatGPT-like system trained on code. But generative AI models often make mistakes, which might be ok…
In the dimly lit corners of the internet, where shadows flicker and eerie silences prevail, there lurks entities of malevolent intent. They are not the stuff of old wives’ tales or campfire ghost stories. We’re talking about bad bots, the digital bogeymen of the digital age. These nefarious beings are lines of code that wreak…
Mastodon, the open source, decentralized alternative to Twitter/X, is adding a feature to its app that will help make the transition smoother for newcomers: Lists. The company today announced the Mastodon app for Android is adding the much-in-demand feature, which allows users to create custom lists around specific topics or interests. An update for iOS…
When several articles were published last week on Reviewed, a USA Today-owned website that recommends products, something seemed off. No one at Reviewed recognized the bylines on the pieces. Writers and editors at Reviewed started to look up the names, but struggled to find proof — such as a LinkedIn account — that the people…
Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) reported third quarter earnings that topped consensus estimates while revenue edged by views. GOOGL stock fell Wednesday as cloud-computing sales growth in Q3 missed amid apparent market share loss to Microsoft (MSFT) amid a battle in artificial intelligence. X Reported after the market close on Tuesday, Google earnings for the quarter…
Updated Oct. 25 with an analyst quote A decade ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge pumped tens of millions of dollars of investment into American robotics innovation, stimulating development of everything from humanoid robots to self-driving cars. Today overall government investment seems to be slowing, putting U.S. robotics leadership at risk in a world that is…
