2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (102+ words) Interesting Engineering No US power plant currently generates electricity from superhot geothermal fluids. Geothermal energy comes from the underground heat trapped and stored deep beneath the Earth’s crust. It can be accessed through shallow ground, hot water reservoirs, or deep…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago   (195+ words) Here’s a humanoid who apparently started kicking a customer in Russia, just because they pushed it a little and the video went viral. Just a day later, another video emerged of a humanoid pushing and kicking several people at a…...

18+ hour, 3+ min ago   (522+ words) Purpose built around cargo volume, not simply payload weight, WindRunner enables direct delivery of outsized space systems to launch sites, manufacturing facilities, and austere or distributed locations without disassembly....

18+ hour, 8+ min ago   (122+ words) Singular Photonics has launched Litavis, a SPAD image sensor that combines photon counting, timing and histogramming with on-chip processing. Litavis builds on that sensitivity by making the sensor software-configurable. The same hardware can be reconfigured for different imaging tasks without…...

23+ hour, 9+ min ago   (575+ words) These companies are building the processors behind advanced AI models. The artificial intelligence boom is creating an almost insatiable demand for computing power. Behind every chatbot, image generator and reasoning model are specialized chips performing vast numbers of calculations within…...

23+ hour, 20+ min ago   (487+ words) A few atoms of aluminum oxide could solve a key trade-off holding back next-generation 2D semiconductor technology. Taiwanese researchers have developed a new atomically thin “primer coat” for molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) that lets you put an extremely thin gate insulator on top…...

23+ hour, 42+ min ago   (939+ words) Why can a robot do a backflip but struggle to fold a shirt? The answer is surprisingly complicated. A humanoid robot can run, jump, dance, and even perform a backflip, yet ask it to fold a shirt, pick up a…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (545+ words) The new organic flow battery partnership could bring scalable, long-duration energy storage closer to commercial use. XL Batteries and ENEOS Holdings have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance an organic flow battery technology aimed at large-scale, long-duration energy storage....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (530+ words) The debate over agentic mathematics has reached beyond mathematical proofs. A group of the world’s most decorated mathematicians is warning that the race to make AI solve difficult mathematics could damage the field it aims to advance. Twenty-five Fields Medalists…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (363+ words) The collaboration brings together Amazon's comprehensive, secure, and price-performant AI infrastructure with Qualcomm Technologies' leadership in power-efficient processing, silicon design and system-level integration. is collaborating with Amazon to enable customized silicon at scale for large-scale AI data centers, working together…...