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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The Trump administration’s assault on vaccine science has taken a predictable turn. Bombshell reporting from the Washington Post just revealed that Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has secretly blocked publication of a report that concludes COVID-19 vaccines are a significant boost to public health. Two CDC scientists, speaking to WaPo anonymously out of fear for retaliation, said the report found that COVID vaccines drastically minimize risk of hospitalization after catching the virus. According to the…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Asus ROG Kithara: one-minute reviewThere are a number of gaming headsets available that support high-res audio, such as the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite, but the new Asus ROG Kithara is one of the first we’ve seen that really takes the plunge into the challenging waters of the specialist hi-fi market.Named after a stringed instrument in ancient Greece, the Kithara takes its old-school approach seriously, with a wired-only design that…
Wall-mounting a TV is the absolute best. Not only does it save you floor space, done tastefully, hanging your television on a lounge or bedroom wall looks awesome. For the longest time I desperately wanted to mount all manner of TVs I’ve owned in the past, yet due to renting restrictions, it was a geeky AV dream I could never realize. Thankfully, my days of using TVs cabinets to house my large-and-in-charge OLED display are long gone. Though sadly, my fears around said tech mean I continue to use these settings to avoid OLED burn-in. The first thing I did…
Adapters are pretty much a necessity in the modern tech landscape. Standards like USB-C and HDMI are nominally meant to get around the need for some of them, but old formats have a tendency to hang around in inconvenient places, like your car or laptop. And in some cases, standards just don’t transfer between product categories — you’re never going to find a native DisplayPort connection on your phone. Not too surprisingly, HDMI adapters are some of the most common out there. TVs and projectors rely almost exclusively on that for input, and we’ve got a lot of things we…
30 Jan 2026 blog post from Dr Mike McCulloch, he compared the IVO Quantum drive based on Quantized inertia theory, satellite’s orbit to a nearly identical twin control satellite. From late September to late December 2025 (90 days), the IVO sat fell ~600 meters less than the control (IVO: 4,880 m decay; control: 5,480 m decay). This relative rise of ~6.6 meters per day is roughly consistent with the expected thrust (1.75 mN) if the drive was firing intermittently (every other day for ~1 minute on average, limited by engineering/glitches). He calls the data plausible and encouraging but not conclusive,…
I’ve reviewed a few Amazon Fire TV Series models over the last few years, and generally, I’ve found them to be solid enough TVs. I’ve always had the suspicion that they could be better for picture quality, and certainly a little less expensive, but then when Amazon’s sales event comes around, the TVs fall to prices that are verging on impulse buy if you want a cheap TV. I don’t think you could say the same about Amazon’s TVs now. Having reviewed the newest Fire TV 4-Series, I found it underwhelming. The problems were multiple. For one, it didn’t seem…
GPUs handle prefill operations by converting prompts into key-value cachesSambaNova RDUs generate tokens at high throughput and low latencyIntel Xeon 6 processors manage workload distribution and execute compiled codeIntel and SambaNova Systems have introduced a joint hardware blueprint combining GPUs, SambaNova RDUs, and Intel Xeon 6 processors for large-scale inference workloads.The system assigns GPUs to prefill operations, RDUs to decoding, and Xeon CPUs to execution and orchestration tasks across agent-driven environments.“Agentic AI is moving into production — and the winning pattern we’re seeing is GPUs to start the job, Intel Xeon 6 to run it, and SambaNova RDUs to finish…
Los primeros astronautas en viajar a la Luna en más de medio siglo han regresado a la Tierra tras una misión que ha establecido nuevos récords a bordo del vuelo de prueba Artemis II de la NASA. Los astronautas de la NASA Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover y Christina Koch, y el astronauta Jeremy Hansen de la CSA (Agencia Espacial Canadiense) amerizaron a las 5:07 p.m. PDT (hora del Pacífico) de este viernes frente a la costa de San Diego, completando un viaje de casi 10 días que los llevó a una distancia máxima de 406.771 kilómetros (252.756 millas) de la Tierra. “Reid, Victor, Christina y…
Dune: Part Three is set for a December 18, 2026 release, confirming that Denis Villeneuve’s return to Arrakis is happening sooner than expected — and bringing his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s saga to a close. The third film is positioned as the conclusion to Villeneuve’s trilogy, following Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), the latter of which crossed $700 million globally and significantly expanded the franchise’s audience. The trailer for Dune: Part Three was released in March and it offers the clearest look yet at how the final chapter is being shaped. It shifts the focus away…
I didn’t switch to Linux to cosplay another operating system. That would be a strange hobby, even by my standards. But somewhere between juggling too many apps and realizing my browser was already doing most of the heavy lifting, a thought crept in and refused to leave: What if I committed to it? Not halfway. Not “browser plus everything else just in case.” I mean fully leaning in. Browser-first, tabs as tools, and PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) instead of installs. Treating my system like ChromeOS, except without the part where it tells me what I’m allowed to do. It started…