Arm has spent more than three decades providing the blueprints that other companies use to build chips, but the company has now stepped into territory it has never occupied before. The Arm AGI CPU is its own processor, designed in house and built specifically for data centers running the most demanding AI workloads. It is a significant departure from the role Arm has played throughout its entire history.
Anyone who has spent eight or more hours wedged into an economy seat over the middle of the Atlantic knows exactly how the second half of that flight feels. The legs start to protest, sleep refuses to come, and the hours stretch out in a way that no amount of in-flight entertainment can fully fix. United Airlines is taking a swing at that problem with the new Relax Row, and it might just be the most welcome change to economy class in years.
Satellites rarely bother photographing each other as they speed by in space, but one did on March 18th, and the result is a shot that no one should have been able to capture: a glimpse into the International Space Station that appears almost insane. The image you see was taken above Argentina and depicts two NASA astronauts hanging out outside (literally) and the station suspended against the top of the atmosphere, where the sky is thin blue.
Gamers have long been searching for a computer that can be slipped into a coat pocket and used to complete tasks, a dream that now appears to be within reach due to a creative designer who wrapped a Razer Edge tablet within a custom 3D printed shell.
In the year 185, sky watchers in China noticed a guest star that flared brilliantly enough to be visible during the day for weeks before disappearing. That brief flash turned out to be a white dwarf star breaking itself apart in a Type Ia supernova. Centuries later, its memory is preserved in the faint form of RCW 86, a gigantic shell of blazing gas speeding outward at millions of miles per hour, by NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission.
OpenAI has quietly pulled the plug on Sora, announcing the shutdown on social media this morning with a brief thank you to everyone who used the app to create and share videos. The company acknowledged the decision would disappoint many users but offered no explanation for it. Sora launched last September as a mobile app built around a video generation model of the same name, and its run has come to an abrupt end less than a year later
Amazon has just completed the acquisition of Fauna Robotics, the New York based startup that has been quietly developing a compact household humanoid called Sprout. The team of around 50 is folding into Amazon’s Personal Robotics Group, though Fauna will continue to operate under its own name as an Amazon company, though financial terms were not disclosed.
Security cameras can be a real money pit because you have to deal with wiring, batteries that need to be replaced on a regular basis, and membership fees that add up every month. What if I told you there’s a way to bypass all that hassle for less than $60? The TP-Link Tapo SolarCam C402 Kit accomplishes exactly that, and at full price, it’s typically a good deal. When it is on sale (like now), you can get it for about $40.
Electron Impressions has built a reputation for pushing physics equipment well beyond its intended purpose, and their latest experiment takes things further than most. The team placed a fully grown potted Venus flytrap, open traps and all, directly in the path of a linear accelerator to find out what high speed electron beam radiation actually does to living tissue, and whether the plant’s famous snapping mechanism would have anything to say about it.
Customers walking into a McDonald’s near Shanghai’s Science and Technology Museum got more than they bargained for. Behind the counter stood a row of humanoid robots dressed in the familiar red and yellow uniform, looking every bit like they had stepped straight out of a McDonald’s advertisement and ready to greet anyone who walked through the door.