Tag: tech
Oops, China learned how to make good chips
This week Qualcomm announced new 4nm wearable chips called the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1, Sony and Minecraft's Mojang said no to NFTs, and China's SMIC chip fab shipped 7nm bitcoin miners with a process they copied from TSMC, potentially overtaki...
Restorers Try to Get Lunar Module Guidance Computer Up and Running | WSJ
In 1976 in a warehouse in Texas, Jimmie Loocke bought two tons of scrapped NASA equipment. Years later he realized it included a computer from an Apollo luna...
Secretive Giant TSMC’s $100 Billion Plan To Fix The Chip Shortage
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company makes 24% of all the world's chips, and 92% of the most advanced ones found in today's iPhones, fighter jets and s...
Early-Stage Startups Face VC Investment Slowdown | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ
For years, competition and cheap money led venture-capital firms to invest heavily in early-stage startups. But now, as VCs tighten their belts amid economic worries, some of those startups are facing a slowdown in funding and may have to show a clear pat...
💯 German Engineering Excellence 💪 #Shorts
💯 German Engineering Excellence 💪 #Shorts
Here's the America's Newest Artillery to Faced Russia
In recent years countries like China and Russia developed indigenous long-range howitzers that out-range and outperform the current US M109A6 and M109A7 systems. To address this development a new long-range self-propelled howitzer was launched in the Unit...
Crypto Downturn Spells Trouble for Web3 Startups | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ
Businesses that staked their value on digital tokens and the future of Web3 technology are struggling with the downturn in crypto. WSJ startups and venture-capital reporter Berber Jin joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss how investors are re-evaluating their...
EXCLUSIVE Alibaba cuts a third of deals team staff after regulatory crackdown-sources
Alibaba Group is cutting over a third of staff in its in-house deals team, four people with knowledge of the matter said, after Beijing's sweeping regulatory crackdown sharply slowed the Chinese e-commerce behemoth's dealmaking pace.
Seeing The Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before
Jul 13, 2022 Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has released its first images, it’s time for the science programs to begin.
Now Russia is really in Trouble: Ukraine Succeed Uses French Newest Artillery
Russia is in Trouble: Ukraine Succeed Uses French Newest Artillery. Ukraine showed off one of its new French-made self-propelled howitzers, it is the CAESAR 8x8 self-propelled howitzer. Firing towards Russian-controlled areas, as Kyiv urges Western countr...
Elon Musk laughs (in a tweet) at Twitter's wish to put him on trial.
Elon Musk mocked Twitter's efforts to force him to purchase the company -- in a tweet, of course.
How War in Ukraine Roiled Russia’s ‘Coolest Company’
The decline of Yandex, the Russian version of Google, is emblematic of the economic and cultural troubles spawned by the invasion.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures the Sounds of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover carries two microphones which are directly recording sounds on the Red Planet, including the Ingenuity helicopter and the rover itself at work. For the very first time, these audio recordings offer a new way to experience th...
China completes overhaul of antitrust law to corral Big Tech
Legislation takes effect Aug. 1, keeping pressure on sector despite earlier signs of easing
This drone-mounted RPG is terrifying
The Belarusian military shared a video on May 27 showing a drone-mounted anti-tank rocket launcher being showcased for army officials. The rocket launcher appears to be an RPG-26 Aglen, supported by a four-rotor rig.