Science

As far as adorably tiny trucks and vans go, Japan has the rest of the world beat. The country is known for using “kei cars,” relatively affordable, ultra-compact vehicles, to conduct personal and commercial transportation on narrow streets. Though kei cars have historically been gas-powered, electric versions are beginning to …

Back in simpler times, startups in Silicon Valley used to brag about how much funding they’d received as a useful metric to compare their importance with their rivals. These days, for AI-based startups, at least, that metric is now the number of Nvidia H100 GPUs they can acquire. With Nvidia’s …

Ever since both DIY and all-in-one liquid cooling kits hit the market, the tubes that force liquid into the water block over the CPU have always entered from above the chip. This was the only way to get liquid into the system, as the CPU and motherboard are beneath the …

Google wasted no time releasing its Bard AI chatbot in early 2023 following the reveal of ChatGPT in Microsoft Bing, but maybe it should have spared a little time. Bard launched with embarrassing glitches, and Google still finds itself apologizing for the AI. It’s not that Bard is worse than …

People who build PCs are always looking for better ways to hide their unseemly cables, but it’s always been difficult with GPUs. They are usually quite large, and the power connector has always been right out in the open, smack dab on the side of the GPU facing the side …

Google is no longer treating artificial intelligence like a side project—Microsoft and OpenAI have seen to that with the public availability of ChatGPT. Google has already started reorganizing to improve its Bard AI. As part of this effort, it’s merging its two AI research groups into one; Google Brain and …

Apple still has a long way to go before it adds no-prick blood glucose monitors to its wearables, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported Sunday. Gurman said Apple “still needs to perfect the algorithms and on-board sensors” found in its prototypes before even hoping to build them into a Watch. It also …

When space agencies launch satellites into orbit, they have to worry about more than just the satellite’s data-gathering efficacy: Cost and end-of-life are also significant concerns. It costs tens of millions of dollars to build and launch a single satellite, and when the satellite’s job is done, it needs to …

Plastic is everywhere, and rocks are no exception. A team of geologists studying a remote island off the coast of Brazil have found that rocks are forming out of plastic waste, renewing the scientific community’s sense of urgency surrounding plastic pollution. Researchers typically flock to Trindade Island to study its …

But what if doctors could reduce wait times and the odds of rejection by having a heart custom printed for each patient? That’s the goal of five biomedical engineers at MIT, who have found a way to 3D print functioning hearts. Each of their soft robotic hearts can be configured …