February 26, 2025

Hardware

NVIDIA Smashes Earnings On Red Hot AI Demand For Double Year-On-Year Gains

We’re starting to sound like a broken record, but NVIDIA crushed yet another quarter with its Q4 revenue scaling to $39.3 billion, which is a 12% sequential gain and a massive 78% spike from the same quarter a year ago. Even more impressive, the record quarter capped off a monster year that saw NVIDIA post a greater than 2X gain (114%) to $130.5 billion, versus $60.2 billion in the previous year. The strong finish to

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Robotics

Yamaha Agriculture formed by Yamaha Motor acquisition of Robotics Plus – The Robot Report

Prospr is an autonomous, hybrid vehicle designed to carry out various orchard and vineyard tasks. | Credit: Robotics Plus Yamaha Motor Co. has acquired Robotics Plus Ltd. to seed a new agricultural technology company called Yamaha Agriculture Inc. It will focus on delivering autonomous equipment and artificial intelligence-powered digital systems to help growers in the specialty crop market. Japan-based Yamaha Motor made the strategic acquisitions of Robotics Plus and The Yield Technology Solutions to develop

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Hardware

Apple Gives Lame Excuse For Dictation Bug That Transcribes ‘Racist’ As ‘Trump’

Apple’s text-to-speech tool seems to beleive the words “racist” and “Trump” are similar. Users across social media have recently shared videos from their iPhones, which show the word “racist” being transcribed as “Trump”. It didn’t happen in every instance — sometimes it’s transcribed properly, and at other times it’s shown as “Trump” initially and moments later it autocorrects. Nevertheless, as you’d expect, this has ignited heated reactions from some users. Some perceive this issue as a

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Co-founder of Odyssey, Oliver Cameron, to speak at Sessions: AI | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Sessions: AI, taking place on June 5 at Zellerbach Hall in UC Berkeley, will feature a panel discussing how startups can compete against established rivals in the AI industry. The panel, “How to Launch a Product Against Entrenched Incumbents,” will look at ways small companies are managing to stay relevant in a fast-paced and rapidly changing space. Featuring founders who’ve had success growing their AI businesses from the ground up, the program will provide

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Continue wants to help developers create and share custom AI coding assistants | TechCrunch

A new startup wants to help developers create customized, contextual coding assistants that can connect with any model and integrate seamlessly with their development environments. Founded in June 2023 by CEO Ty Dunn and CTO Nate Sesti (pictured above), Y Combinator alum Continue has already garnered some 23,000 stars on GitHub and 11,000 Discord community members over the past couple of years. To build on this momentum, Continue is announcing version 1.0 of its product,

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Hardware

Micron’s New 1-Gamma DRAM Turbocharges DDR5 To 9600 MT/s

Micron’s memory technology is taking another step forward with the launch of its new 1γ (1-gamma) DRAM, pushing DDR5 speeds to 9200 MT/s and LPDDR5X to an impressive 9600 MT/s. This marks the latest step in the company’s longstanding race to shrink DRAM nodes while improving both power efficiency and performance. Compared to its last-generation 1-beta (1β) DRAM, the 1-gamma node offers a 15% speed boost and over 20% power reduction—improvements made possible due to

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Hardware

GeForce RTX 5090 Paired With A 3050 Gives Classic Games A Huge Boost

One of the controversies surrounding the ongoing launch of the GeForce RTX 50 series concerns the fact that it has dropped hardware acceleration for PhysX effects in 32-bit games. This affects the majority of titles using PhysX, particularly those from its halcyon days as NVIDIA’s exclusive technology. Well, you can work around this, it turns out, by simply slapping in a previous-generation GPU alongside your shiny new Blackwell part. To explain, a great many classic

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Hardware

Plex Punts A Popular Feature Amid A Major App Revamp

Plex, one of the most popular software solutions for those looking to host their own video and audio media, is about to undergo some big updates. The company is billing it as a rewrite of its entire code base, which will enable it to bring new features and better support for a variety of platforms. Unfortunately, this retooling also means the loss of a fan favorite feature. Watch Together, a feature that was implemented during

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Robotics

Sanctuary AI integrates tactile sensors into Phoenix general purpose robots – The Robot Report

The Phoenix humanoid robot has tactile sensors for improved teleoperation. Source: Sanctuary AI One challenge of building general-purpose and humanoid robots is training them for dexterous manipulation. Sanctuary AI today announced that it has integrated new tactile sensors into its Phoenix robots. This will enable teleoperated pilots to more effectively conduct complex, touch-driven tasks with precision and accuracy, said the company. “Without tactile sensing, robots depend on video to interact with their environment,” noted Dr.

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Intel, Synopsys, TSMC All Unveil Record Memory Densities

5 min read Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum’s semiconductor editor. IEEE Spectrum Last week at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), two of the biggest rivals in advanced chipmaking, Intel and TSMC, detailed the capabilities of the key memory circuits, SRAM, built using their newest technologies, Intel 18a and TSMC N2. Chipmakers’ ability to keep scaling down circuits has slowed over the years—but it’s been particularly difficult to shrink SRAM, which is

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