At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. “[Project Digits] runs the entire Nvidia AI stack — all of Nvidia software runs on this,” Nvid … | Continue reading
Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, in … | Continue reading
At CES 2025, Alienware announced the revival of its Area-51 line as well as its innovative 4K QD-OLED monitor. | Continue reading
Toyota announced at CES 2025 that its next-generation vehicles will have automated driving capabilities powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS. TechCrunch has reached out to Toyota to learn more about the automaker’s plans to … | Continue reading
Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandem … | Continue reading
UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings provide valuable insights into the origins of our Solar System. Although our Solar … | Continue reading
Acer revealed a next-generation Aspire Vero 16 that's made partially out of oyster shells at CES this week. | Continue reading
Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is making openly available a family of world models that can predict and generate “phys … | Continue reading
Nvidia announced the one thing everybody was waiting for Nvidia to announce at CES 2025. | Continue reading
As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs. The centerpiece of the line is the RTX 5090. The card bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor, but now sports, 92 billion transistors, 4,000 AT TOPS, 380 ray-t … | Continue reading
Pricing for Sony and Honda's collab EV AFEELA was revealed at CES 2025, with the vehicle costing an outrageous $89,900. | Continue reading
Crunchyroll Manga is relaunching with a new app. It will be available later this year as a standalone app on iOS and Android, debuting in Canada and the United States. The app complements Crunchyroll memberships and will be offered as a premium add-on. Web browser integration is … | Continue reading
Airframe Ultra, the “battle-racer” from the developer Videocult and publisher Akupara Games, will have a public beta test. The Airframe Ultra public beta will be happening from January 10-13, this weekend. Players interested will need to join the Airframe Discord here before Janu … | Continue reading
Splitting the difference between a camping cabin and a heavy-duty safari tent, the new K-Tent from Kudhva Kanvas is a glamping retreat meant to hop between destinations. Its sturdy aluminum-tube frame stands up to the elements and lifts campers off the ground for a warm, level, s … | Continue reading
When the M1 MacBooks dropped, they looked amazing and I picked one up in 2021. It’s 2025 now, so it’s fairly typical of me to be upgrading. It felt a little unnecessary since my M1 was: extremely perfectly fine. It’s an excellent machine really and it will continue to be for it’s … | Continue reading
Migrating bats cleverly harness the warm winds of storm fronts to reduce energy use during their long seasonal journeys, as revealed by innovative tracking technology. Scientists found these tiny nocturnal travelers exhibit unexpected flexibility and adaptability in their migrati … | Continue reading
Samsung is set to reveal its new Galaxy S series in two weeks, announcing that it will host its next Unpacked event on Jan. 22. | Continue reading
Samsung is set to reveal its new Galaxy S series in two weeks, announcing that it will host its next Unpacked event on Jan. 22. | Continue reading
Nothing announces "I'm deeply insecure about my place in the billionaire pecking order" quite like dropping $880,000 on a diamond-encrusted gyroscopic cup holder. Because when you're desperately trying to impress people who already hate you, why not spend your meaningless wealth … | Continue reading
Sony has been trickling out details of the Afeela brand it launched with Honda, ever since it unveiled the EV in 2023. But it’s held back one big detail — until today. Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida announced Monday at CES 2025 that the four-door Afeela EV would have a starting price … | Continue reading
Walking away. Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Jan. 6, 2025. Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images After weeks of speculation over his future, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign on Jan. 6, 2025. His departure will bring an end to more tha … | Continue reading
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Getty Images Imagine starting your workday with an AI assistant that not only helps you write emails but also tracks your productivity, suggests breathing exercises, monitors your mood and stress levels and summarises meetings. This is not a futuristic scenario. Workplaces global … | Continue reading
A sassy pup thinks she is a big shot, barking at a golden retriever twice her size. Until, that is, an even bigger dog — as in a Saint Bernard — steps into the picture to make things right. All it takes is one look at the big guy looming over her, and the young pooch immediately … | Continue reading
I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that& | Continue reading
sw_photo/Shutterstock You might think dairy farmers would be enjoying boom times. The dairy industry has been expanding worldwide in response to increasing demand, mainly in the emerging markets of Asia. But across many developed countries, the number of dairy farmers has in fact … | Continue reading
Sony knows how to put on a show at CES 2025. The company’s pressers are high-octane, star-studded affairs, as these things go. In addition to standard Sony fare like TVs and audio systems, there’s always a curve ball or two, be it a car, a drone, or a “Gran Turismo” movie. That’s … | Continue reading
On New Year’s Day, a truck rammed into a crowd in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more. The suspect, identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, a United States citizen and Army veteran, was apprehended and killed on the scene of the attack, after fi … | Continue reading
If you have any familiarity with 12 Steps groups or if you've seen movies like 28 Days or TV shows like The Wire, then you may be familiar with two of the steps that scare the hell out of newcomers. They are the 4th and 5th Steps of the recovery program first laid out in the 1930 … | Continue reading
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 873 for the week of December 29, 2024 – January 4, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here. In this issue we cover: Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek Ubuntu Stats Hot in Support Other Meeting Reports Upcoming Mee … | Continue reading
NASA’s LEXI, an innovative X-ray imager, is embarking on a groundbreaking mission to the Moon under the Artemis campaign. Once on the lunar surface, LEXI will capture unprecedented global images of Earth’s magnetic field, offering insights into how it shields us from solar radiat … | Continue reading
Today, a joint session of the US Congress, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, certified the results of the 2024 US presidential election, declaring Donald Trump the winner. This was not the result I wanted, but it is a result which honored the votes of the American people, … | Continue reading
Ahmet Kurt/Unsplash Reformer pilates is steadily growing in popularity, with new studios opening regularly in major cities all over the world. But what exactly is reformer pilates? And how does it compare with regular pilates and other types of exercise? Classes aren’t cheap so l … | Continue reading
Getting creative in Tompkins Square Park with today's light snowfall ... thanks to the EVG reader for this pic. | Continue reading
Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The show floor of the biggest tech event of the year hasn’t even opened yet, but CES 2025 has already delivered a long list of new gadgets, tech, concepts, and AI-powered devices tempting you to upgrade. It’s a lot to keep up with, so we’ll help yo … | Continue reading
This post is part of RSS Club, rewarding those who still use RSS to read and/or share content. These posts are embargoed from my regular post feed and the socials for an arbitrary period of time. You can see all the RSS-only posts at AdrianRoselli.com/category/RSS. Tell your frie … | Continue reading
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department sent out an advisory warning hunters, livestock owners, and outdoorsy folks near the southern border to watch out for a flesh-eating parasite known as the New World Screwworm. The "man-eating" screwworms, or "devastating pests" as the U.S. … | Continue reading
1-6-24 Feel like I’m not moving quick enough, or I need another system, some new BEAT, or something. […] | Continue reading
Motion Loop/Shutterstock In recent years, the field of quantum computing has been experiencing fast growth, with technological advances and large-scale investments regularly making the news. The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and T … | Continue reading
E-bikes are all the rage. Electric car sales have been growing fast, but so have electric bike sales — we just don’t have tracking for them like we do for electric cars. With more and more people thinking about getting electric bikes every day, though, we decided it would be ... … | Continue reading
The BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple: Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that has generate … | Continue reading
thoughtbot has been a fan of Prismic for quite some time, and have experienced their benefits firsthand by using Prismic to manage our own website. We even did a workshop about our experience a few years back. Prismic provides a headless CMS builder that enables teams to build we … | Continue reading
A few days ago, I blogged about debugging unraisable exceptions with Rich. Here’s a sequel on testing that some block of code doesn’t trigger any unraisable exceptions. An unraisable exception is one that occurs outside the normal execution flow, so Python logs it as “unraisable” … | Continue reading
At CES 2025, Anker unveiled its first solar umbrella, designed to charge electronic devices — like coolers or phones — while outdoors. The new umbrella is part of Anker’s SOLIX lineup, which includes energy-efficient products like portable power stations and solar generators inte … | Continue reading
The future of htmx Carson Gross and Alex Petros lay out an ambitious plan for htmx: stay stable, add few features and try to earn the same reputation for longevity that jQuery has (estimated to be used on 75.3% of websites). In particular, we want to emulate these technical chara … | Continue reading
Liv McMahon and Natalie Sherman, reporting for BBC News: The company, in its first acknowledgement of the concerns, on Monday said it was working on a software change to “further clarify” when the notifications are summaries that have been generated by the Apple Intelligence syst … | Continue reading
Bats and birds showcase a fascinating contrast in their evolutionary paths, with recent research revealing bats’ wings and legs evolve in unison, limiting their ecological roles compared to birds, whose limbs evolve independently. This discovery offers new insights into why birds … | Continue reading
Stimulation Clicker Neal Agarwal just created the worst webpage. It's extraordinary. As far as I can tell all of the audio was created specially for this project, so absolutely listen in to the true crime podcast and other delightfully weird little details. Works best on a laptop … | Continue reading