In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down a reversible conductive glue from Newcastle University that could replace solder and finally make electronics recycling work. Additional stories cover China widening its clean energy lead, DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve scoring wins from genomics to…
Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the influence of social media on children, Reuters reported. The ban, part of a…
Google has filed a proposal outlining how it would remedy the antitrust violation it’s been accused of by the Department of Justice, after the DOJ called for Google to sell off Chrome and face restrictions that would prevent it from…
OpenAI saved its biggest announcement for the last day of its 12-day “shipmas” event, TechCrunch reported. On Friday, the company unveiled o3, the successor to the o1 “reasoning” model it released earlier in the year. O3 is a model family,…
In today’s show, I explore the controversies surrounding Chinese technology firms in the U.S., the FAA’s drone ban, and the latest in AI with Google’s Gemini 2.0. I dive into the critical security debates, industry advancements, and the implications of…
Earlier this year, Meta previewed Movie Gen, an AI video tool that looked impressively realistic (at least in the sample clips it released.) At the time, though, Meta said it was still a research project with no immediate plans to…
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court confirmed it would review whether a federal law that could ban or force a sale of TikTok is unconstitutional, ArsTechnica reported. The announcement came just one day after TikTok and its owner ByteDance petitioned SCOTUS…
Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of user, which the company disclosed back in September 2018, TechCrunch reported. The penalty, issued on Tuesday by Ireland’s…