UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. In a world first, they used two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at…
As organizations look to incorporate AI capabilities into their applications, large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for natural language processing tasks. Amazon SageMaker AI provides a fully managed service for deploying these machine learning (ML) models with multiple inference options, allowing organizations to optimize for cost, latency, and throughput. AWS has always…
I was lucky enough to watch a preview of Ocean with David Attenborough recently. Due for cinema release globally on 8 May (Attenborough’s 99th birthday), the film is the naturalist’s call to take better care of our seas. Much of the footage will feel familiar for fans of nature documentaries, such as a seal swimming…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is unpatriotic of me, but I suggest that international bond investors take note of the following realities in Britain. The Labour government has a tremendous majority in parliament. It does not have to call…
Wright ThompsonJun 12, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN and is executive producer of TrueSouth and co-executive producer of Backstory. He is the author of New York Times bestselling The Cost of These Dreams. AARON JUDGE LAUGHED when I asked him about nap time. He’s got a four-month-old…
Axel Arigato’s latest sneaker, Eris, launched only last month but has seen strong demand so far with extra colourways and larger sizes for men requested. The brand clearly anticipated this and has added both to the offer as of this week. Axel Arigato Eris is unisex but mainly targeted women at launch when it debuted…
[This is a Guest Diary by William Constantino, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] In the beginning of my Internet Storm Center (ISC) internship, I wasted too much time trying to build my SIEM from an old computer I had lying around, or a new Raspberry Pi I purchased. I keep…
A second suspect has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist in an upmarket Manhattan home for weeks in an effort to steal his cryptocurrency. William Duplessie, 32, turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after his alleged accomplice was arrested last week. Their alleged victim told police he was hung off…
An artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs ESO/L. Calçada In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits them perpendicularly. Astronomers may think they know what is normal for stars and planets,…
Ethar Shalaby BBC News Arabic Noura’s family archive Noura and Mohamed at their home in Gaza City before the war began, where they hoped to raise a family “My nerves are shattered,” says Noura, a 26-year-old Palestinian woman, explaining that she has been “left with nothing”. After years of IVF treatment, she became pregnant in…
