Tesla’s robotaxi launch: what worked, what didn’t, what’s next
The Cybercab launched in three cities last quarter. Our reporters rode it in all three and came back with a mixed verdict.
Waymo surpasses 10 million autonomous miles in San Francisco alone
The Alphabet subsidiary crossed a milestone that puts it further ahead of any competitor in dense urban autonomy.
The quiet death of the hard drive and what replaced it
HDD shipments fell below 50 million units for the first time since 1999.
How Qualcomm’s PC strategy is reshaping the Windows ecosystem
Two years after the Snapdragon X Elite launch, Qualcomm now holds 22% of the Windows laptop market.
The rise of open-source robotics and what it means for manufacturing
A new generation of robot platforms — built on open hardware and trained on synthetic data — is entering small-batch manufacturing.
Apple’s M5 Pro sets a new efficiency record in independent benchmarks
Independent labs measured power consumption during sustained workloads and found Apple's M5 Pro delivers performance-per-watt that exceeds any x86 chip by a factor of…
The neuromorphic chip that runs on less power than a moth’s brain
Intel's Loihi 3 demonstrates 100x energy efficiency gains on sensory AI workloads compared to conventional silicon.
TSMC’s 1.4nm node enters risk production
The world's most advanced semiconductor process is entering the pre-production phase at TSMC's Arizona fab.
The physics experiment that rewrote our understanding of antimatter
The ALPHA-g experiment at CERN confirmed that antimatter falls downward under gravity.
The brain implant that restored speech to a stroke patient after six years of silence
A BCI developed at UC San Francisco decoded intended speech from a paralyzed patient at 97% accuracy.