Daily News update on – Technology

The New York Times

The supercomputer, which was unveiled on Thursday by Cerebras, a Silicon Valley start-up, was built with the company’s specialized chips, which are designed to power artificial intelligence products. The chips stand out for their size — like that of a …

NPR

There I was scrambling with my dog and about 70 Pikmin, trying not to get squashed by a gigantic daddy long-legs with a disco ball for a head. About par for the course for Thursday afternoon.

Nature.com

By twisting three layers of graphene with two different twist angles, we form two mutually incommensurate moiré patterns. In contrast to many common atomic-scale quasicrystals, the quasiperiodicity in our system is defined on moiré length scales of several …

ABC News

The deadline for Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard has been extended to as the companies seek to close a deal that has been opposed by regulators in the U.S. and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority.

TechCrunch

Apple is developing artificial intelligence tools to challenge OpenAI, Google and others, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The tech giant has created a chatbot that some engineers are internally referring to as “Apple GPT.

Reuters

The extension will “provide ample time to work through the final regulatory issues”, Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a tweet. “We are confident about our prospects for getting this deal across the finish line.”.

Eos

Our planet is constantly buffeted by solar wind: electrically charged particles streaming from the Sun at speeds of up to hundreds of kilometers per second. Earth’s magnetic field protects us, but occasionally, a storm overwhelms the planet’s defenses, …

Top Gear

It’s the Prodrive P25, a love letter to Subaru’s World Rally Championship glory days in the form of a modern reinterpretation of the Subaru Impreza WRC97. Remember the infamous 22B? That was built to celebrate the rally car’s success.

BBC News

A burst of people signed up for Netflix this spring, after the streaming giant cracked down on password sharing. The company ended June with more than 238 million subscribers, adding 5.9 million members since March. That was bigger than expected and …

News-Medical.net

Metabolic syndrome predisposes individuals to a higher risk of cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and lung function impairment. The global prevalence of the syndrome has steadily increased over the past decades, especially among older adults.