Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity

Researchers reveal that we waste a huge amount of energy on redundant bitcoin mining operations — where different miners try ...
Scientific American

China’s LineShine supercomputer tops global rankings with almost 2 quintillion calculations per second

The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings ...
Defense One

The Navy wants next-generation munitions, so it’s spending millions on innovation hubs

Replenishing munitions stockpiles doesn’t end with simply producing more of them. There are persistent challenges with mixing, manufacturing, integrating and discovering new energetic materials—the ...
IEEE

On the Generation of Face Morphs by Inversion of Optimal Morph Embeddings

Abstract: Automatic face recognition systems are widely used in different applications which require authentication. Among various types of attacks against face recognition systems, morphing attacks ...
9to5Mac

Following Apple shoutout, Perplexity elaborates on Mac-native ‘Personal Computer’ platform

Last month, Perplexity announced Personal Computer, a Mac-native platform built to primarily run on a Mac mini (though it can run on any Mac) and serve as the user’s personal agentic assistant running ...
Defense One

25th ID helping the Army smooth out the wrinkles in its next-generation C2

The Army wanted a command-and-control platform that would sync up its many siloed battlefield data management systems—from intelligence to surveillance to targets to munitions levels—and display it ...
C&EN

Second Harmonic Generation Mediated by Aligned Water in Starch Granules

† Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Department of Physics, and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5L 1C6 ‡ ...
Business Wire

Kioxia Unveils the Next Generation KIOXIA BG7 Series SSDs for PC OEMs

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kioxia Corporation today announced KIOXIA BG7 series solid state drives (SSDs) – the first client solution to feature the company’s latest, BiCS FLASH TM generation 8 3D flash ...
The Aviationist

Belgium’s First F-35A Lands at Florennes, Marking the Beginning of Local Operations

The Belgian Air Force has officially welcomed its first F-35A Lightning II to Florennes Air Base, joining the growing European “wall of F-35s.” Belgium’s first F-35A Lightning II to be permanently ...
The Straits Times

A look inside the new Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Institute at NUS

SINGAPORE - On July 11, the Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Institute (SNRSI) was officially launched. The five-storey building is located in the middle of a small, forested area at Prince ...
IGN

Xbox’s Next Generation of RPGs Unlock the Absurd Character Choices of Our Dreams

Once BioShock Infinite’s protagonist Booker DeWitt arrives in the floating city of Columbia, the local police set about getting a description of the False Prophet they’ve anticipated for so long. Only ...
Business Wire

Kioxia Announces First Enterprise NVMe™ SSD Built with 8th Generation BiCS FLASH™ TLC-Based Flash Memory Technology

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced the development and prototype demonstration of its new KIOXIA CM9 Series PCIe ® 5.0 NVMe™ SSDs. These ...