CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
…In the early 2000s, a Stanford PhD student named Ian Buck, who first got into GPUs as a gamer, realized their architecture could be repurposed for general high-performance computing. He created…
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Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
…Despite the app's name change, Chandra says the Fitbit brand is still very much part of Google's playbook: The company announced the first new Fitbit in three years, the Fitbit…
Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers
…But he also says he’s noticed that name-dropping Epstein and Netanyahu results in the videos getting more traction. “I've seen people actually put IDF soldier and @thewyliefiles in their…
Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
…While some of its operatives have been publicly named and hit with international sanctions, a consortium of journalists revealed this week how a special unit inside Bauman Moscow State Technical University, named…
Sniffies’ Users Worry About a ‘Straightification’ of the Gay Hookup App
…A cruiser in London named Dani, who has used Sniffies since 2021 and asked that we only use their first name over concerns their private activities would negatively impact their professional life…
Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved
…When he and his colleagues began trying to build such a network, Bernardi says he had already become obsessed with Penrose tiling, a kind of aperiodic tiling named after the British physicist…
I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
…that can fit this karaoke room. “Your travel history and emails identify [my partner’s name] as a close friend and frequent companion, making him a natural first addition,” read Gemini Spark…
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
…Soon after Cherny joined the company, an engineer named Adam Wolff showed him Anthropic’s work on automated coding. “It was very primitive,” Wolff says. But Cherny used the coding tool to…
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
…I work for companies with names like Mercor and Outlier and Task-ify and Turing and Handshake and Micro1. In my “other” career, I am a Hollywood writer and showrunner. I create…
Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn’t Dumb
…Commodore has a manufacturing partner in Shenzhen to build the phone. (Commodore wouldn't share the name of this partner.) The Callback has a MediaTek Helio G81 processor, includes a 32-GB…