America’s First Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturer Ceases Operations Summary Natron Energy has announced the immediate cessation of all operations, including the closure of its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan and the…
Apple’s Vision Pro Gaining Traction in Some Niches of Business Summary Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro is finding practical uses in select enterprise niches — pilot training, retail visualisation and engineering…
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype Summary Microsoft Research in Cambridge has revealed a new prototype Analog Optical Computer (AOC) that uses light to perform analogue computations…
Firefox ESR 115 won’t quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026 Summary Mozilla has extended security support for Firefox ESR 115 on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary The European Commission has fined Alphabet’s Google $3.45 billion over anti-competitive behaviour in its adtech business. The Commission…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural-network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth among a…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary San Francisco startup Anthropic has widened existing restrictions to block access to its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to try to ease…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling network that uses Seine river water, via networks of pipes and heat exchangers, to remove…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A recent three-month global research effort, Expedition 501, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the…
