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INSIDERRussia's unjammable drones are causing chaos. A tech firm says it has a fix to help Ukraine fight back.
Fiber-optic drones are highly dangerous, as they can't be jammed with traditional electronic warfare and are difficult to detect.
- GuruFocus.com
NVIDIA Stock Rises 2% as Company Unveils First Quantum Day at GTC 2025
Quantum Day will debut on March 20, at NVIDIA's GTC conference.
- TechCrunch
Nvidia backs MetAI, a Taiwanese startup that creates AI-powered digital twins
Nvidia has been doubling down on the opportunity to build robotics and other industrial AI applications, with the launch of its Omniverse platform, and most recently Mega, an Omniverse Blueprint framework to create digital twins to operate these applications. It's also investing in digital twin startups to get the effort off the ground. Taiwan's MetAI has developed a model that can quickly generate “SimReady" (simulation-ready) digital twins using AI and 3D technology, by converting CAD files into functional 3D environments within minutes.
- South China Morning Post
Chinese robotics maker UBTech aims to revolutionise Apple supplier Foxconn's manufacturing
Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics, China's largest maker of humanoid robots, will deploy its robots in Apple supplier Foxconn's factories to help with "complicated and delicate production", according to a senior executive. The company is training its robots to handle different tasks required for modern-day manufacturing, chief brand officer Michael Tam said on the sidelines of the China conference in Nansha organised by the South China Morning Post. "For car manufacturing, there [are] thousands of
- The Independent
TikTok ban latest: Trump weighs executive order to ‘save TikTok’ as Supreme Court decision looms
Supreme Court is reviewing the legality of legislation that would force TikTok to be sold or be banned
- Evening Standard
Switch 2 leak hints at exciting new way to connect with players as Nintendo teases big reveal
The feature may signal how Nintendo is getting ready for a wave of third-party games, including Call of Duty
- AFP News
'Take my data': US 'TikTok refugees' flock to alternative Chinese app
Furious at the prospect of a US government ban on social media platform TikTok, American users have flocked to another Chinese-owned app in droves, many with a defiant message: "Take my data!""It's funny and ironic that the Americans and the Chinese are meeting online under the circumstance that the US government is banning TikTok... similar to what the Chinese government has been doing for ages to American apps," 26-year-old Amanda Zhang told AFP. The part-time pet content creator, who studies
- Benzinga
Broadcom's Latest SAN Switch Offers Scalable, Energy-Efficient Solution for Growing Storage Demands
On Wednesday, Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced the availability of the Brocade G710 24-port 64G switch, a top-of-rack SAN switch. Brocade Gen 7 Fibre Channel combines cyber-resilient and autonomous SAN technology into this cost-effective platform that seamlessly integrates into rack-based storage solutions, the company said. The Brocade G710 switch extends the 64G SAN portfolio, which includes fixed port switches, modular directors, extension switches, and management software. Also Read: Nvi
- CNN Business
TikTok is running out of time and options
As the clock ticks down on TikTok, it’s getting to be decision-making time.
- Engadget
NVIDIA's AI NPCs are a nightmare
At CES 2025, NVIDIA made it plainly clear AI NPCs are around the corner, and I think they look genuinely awful.
- TechCrunch
Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry's best
Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. This week, MiniMax, an Alibaba- and Tencent-backed startup that has raised around $850 million in venture capital and is valued at more than $2.5 billion, debuted three new models: MiniMax-Text-01, MiniMax-VL-01, and T2A-01-HD. MiniMax claims that MiniMax-Text-01, which is 456 billion parameters in size, performs better than models such as Google's recently unveiled Gemini 2.0 Flash on benchmarks like MMLU and SimpleQA, which measure the ability of a model to answer math problems and fact-based questions.
- Engadget
Will the Nintendo Switch 2 get revealed this week? Here's everything we know
The Nintendo Switch 2 is likely coming in the nearish future. Here are all of the rumors and speculation regarding the upcoming console.
- Reuters
Over half a million ‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China's RedNote
New users have piled in to Chinese social media app RedNote just days before a proposed U.S. ban on the popular social media app TikTok, as the lesser-known company rushes to capitalize on the sudden influx while walking a delicate line of moderating English-language content, sources told Reuters. In a live chat dubbed “TikTok Refugees” on RedNote on Monday, more than 50,000 American and Chinese users joined the room. “Is it ok to ask about how laws are different in China versus Hong Kong?” one American user asked.
- Yahoo Canada Style
I bought a $350 budget TCL TV from Amazon — I'm so impressed with it that I'm going to buy another one
I'm terrible with technology, but I found it easy to set up and was able to stream Netflix 10 minutes after unboxing it.
- TechCrunch
DOJ confirms FBI operation that mass-deleted Chinese malware from thousands of US computers
U.S. authorities have confirmed that they disrupted the operations of a Chinese state-backed hacking group, which infiltrated millions of computers worldwide to steal data as part of a years-long espionage campaign. The Department of Justice and the FBI said on Tuesday that they had successfully deleted the malware planted by the China-backed hacking group, known as “Twill Typhoon” or “Mustang Panda,” from thousands of infected systems across the United States during a court-authorized operation in August 2024. French authorities led the operation with assistance from Paris-based cybersecurity company Sekoia.
- GuruFocus.com
Microsoft Shares Rise as Company Unveils AI-Powered Copilot Chat for Microsoft 365 Users
Microsoft has introduced "Copilot Chat," an AI-powered, pay-as-you-go chat solution for Microsoft 365 commercial users.
- Yahoo News UK
What is RedNote? The Chinese app users are downloading before US TikTok ban
A Chinese social media app previously little known in the West has suddenly soared to the top of the charts – here's why.
- TechCrunch
As TikTok faces a US shutdown, here are some alternative apps to check out
TikTok has warned of a looming shutdown in just six days, as the Supreme Court is currently weighing the law that would ban the app. The law gives TikTok parent company ByteDance until January 19 to divest its U.S. operations or face a ban in the country. TikTok is hoping for a pause to the law, but if that doesn’t happen, the app will effectively be banned in the country.
- Yahoo Finance
Quantum computing stocks rebound after massive sell-off as industry exec says opportunity is 'real'
Quantum computing stocks rebounded Tuesday after a massive sell-off fueled by Big Tech CEOs expressing skepticism. The stocks recovered as D-Wave CEO Alan Barrett said quantum computing is "real."
- The Independent
American killed fellow Goldsmiths student ‘after she urged him to take an STI test after sex’, court told
Joshua Michals is accused of leaving partner and fellow student Zhe Wang to die in a ‘pool of blood’