KitKat’s newest product is . . . a Faraday cage? - Fast Company
KitKat's new wrapper is a pouch designed to block signals to your phone.
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How Garage Beer designed its delightfully retro glass bottles - Fast Company
The original Coors Banquet just got a cooler younger brother.
Your Brain Does Something Weird When You Look at Emojis
When the human brain sees an emoji, it does the stupidest thing it could possibly do in that moment: it interprets it as a real human face.
DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth
The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the pricing strategy of US AI providers at a moment when the Trump administration has…
TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough
Samsung Breaks the 10nm DRAM Barrier With New 4F Cell Structure That Boosts Density By Up to 50%
Samsung has reportedly produced the world's first standalone DRAM module that uses a process tech below 10nm.
Note: The “1x, 1y, 1z, 1a…” naming is just the DRAM industry’s generational shorthand — each step is a shrink within the broad “10nm-class” umbrella, not a distinct architecture change. The progression: |Gen|Approx. node|Era | |---|------------|---------------------------| |1x |~18–19nm |~[2016–2017](tel:2016-2017)| |1y |~17nm |~2018 | |1z |~15–16nm |~[2019–2020](tel:2019-2020)| |1a |~14nm |~2021 | |1b…
Ten Books Worth Adding to Your Library
In my opinion, there are few investments more valuable than a good book.
A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots | Quanta Magazine
With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex knots.
Dopamine Depletion: The Hidden Driver of Alzheimer’s Memory Loss - Neuroscience News
Researchers discovered that an 80% drop in dopamine causes Alzheimer's memory loss. Restoring dopamine with Levodopa rescued memory in a landmark study.
What every dev should know about AI sandboxes
An important primitive for the new "AI agent era"
How Agentic AI Chip Design Built a Full RISC-V Core
Startup Verkor.io’s agentic AI orchestrated the entire design process from a 219-word prompt
run-llama/liteparse: A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser
A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser
The US imports 82% of its large power transformers. How it got there, and what it will take to rebuild the capability.
Why the rebuild depends on metallurgy, apprenticeship, and one mill in Pennsylvania.
Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions.
Asymmetry is all you need
What drives information markets, and why the transformer is unlike the telegraph, ticker, and terminal
I can never talk to an AI anonymously again
AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you?
‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread
Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans visiting.
Even more astounding is that the team caught on video more than 200 people — tourists, trainees from a local wildlife institute and children with school groups — approaching the cave during the four-month period when the cameras were active. Only one visitor, a tourist, wore a mask. This is despite…
How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 26.04
Install Docker on Ubuntu 26.04 from the official Docker repository. Covers repository setup, verification, running without sudo, updates, and uninstall steps.
The Macabre Case of the Man in the Mask
And the shadowy world of Andrew Crispo.
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch
KV caches are one of the most critical techniques for efficient inference in LLMs in production.
The Coding Assistant Breakdown: More Tokens Please
Hands On With GPT 5.5, Opus 4.7, DeepSeek V4, Why Benchmarks Are Bad, and Who’s Going To Win
GPT-5.5 is now materially better
GLM-5.1, Qwen3.6-Plus, Kimi K2.6, Composer 2, and Gemini 3.1 Pro
GPT-5.5 prompting guide
Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API, OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Here's a neat trick they recommend …
7,000 years of China stilted houses celebrate human ingenuity, offer insights
Elevated homes have been part of Chinese culture since earliest days, showcasing how intercultural interaction fuelled technology development.
Flood of small parcels from China pushes Belgian airport’s capacity to limit
Belgium’s top customs official says main problem is that many products do not meet EU standards.
Scientists Say This Solo Outdoor Habit Can Cure Your Loneliness
Somewhere along the way, loneliness became a public health crisis, and nobody could agree on how to fix it. The leading theory for years was essentially: get people outside. They’ll run into other people, conversation happens, problem solved. Logical enough. Also, largely wrong…
The Scientific Reason Some People Literally Hear Colors
Some people move through the world with a completely different sensory experience than everyone else, and most of them have no idea it’s unusual. As ScienceAlert reports, somewhere between 1 and 4 percent of people have a neurological trait called synaesthesia, where activating…
How to Overcome the Advanced Node Physical Verification...
This blog looks at the details of how Synopsys IC Validator can overcome the advanced node physical verification bottleneck.
TSMC Technology Symposium 2026 Overview - SemiWiki
TSMC revenue is expected by me to grow 30-40%. Here is the hitch: While wafer pricing is stable chip pricing is not.
The Ferrari of Espresso Machines Is Fueling a Hot Resale Market
The La Marzocco coffee maker has long been a sought-after classic. But used machines are now even more coveted by cafe owners and collectors.
DeepSeek unveils next-gen AI model as Huawei vows ‘full support’ with new chips
The company says its cost-efficient new V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
llmrb/llm.rb: Ruby's most capable AI runtime
Ruby's most capable AI runtime
Food - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Jazz Fest cuisine celebrates centuries-old traditions of Louisiana cooking, along with modern classics, some of which have been created just for the Festival. The extensive menu features local seafood, produce, and the state’s famous charcuterie. We invite you to enjoy some of…
Photonic Manufacturing: Material or Process Focus? | Lawrence Lundy-Bryan posted on the topic | LinkedIn
So if you’re building or investing in photonic manufacturing, ask yourself: is this facility organised around a material or around a process? And if it’s a process, is there a design ecosystem that creates lock-in? Material without integration = component supplier. Integration…
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DRAM Market Shift: From Mobile to Infrastructure (2023–2030) The latest DRAM demand outlook highlights a clear structural transition: memory demand is moving from mobile-driven to infrastructure-driven growth. 1. Infrastructure Becomes Dominant Servers & Workstations grow from…
#ddr4 #lpddr4 #ddr5 #lpddr5x #semiconductors #memoryindustry #supplychain #automotivetech #industrialiot #ai #techstrategy #eol | Nick…
🚨 DDR4 / LPDDR4: The Beginning of the End — or a Strategic Reset? The memory industry is approaching a pivotal inflection point—and the signals are becoming impossible to ignore. Recent developments from Samsung indicate that legacy nodes such as LPDDR4 (and increasingly DDR4)…
Construction Costs Rarely Fall
Not long ago we looked at construction productivity trends for the US and for countries around the world. We found that in the U.S., and in most other large, wealthy countries, construction productivity is stagnant or declining. Unlike manufacturing and agriculture, or the…
Rethink Your Product Detail Pages - Practical Ecommerce
In today's environment, product detail pages must be "AI consumable" to provide answers and model items as structured entities.
Why thinking hard feels bad: the emotional root of deliberation
Doubt is not just a lack of information; it is an unpleasant emotional state. New psychological research reveals that this negative feeling serves as a necessary alarm bell, pushing the human brain to abandon mental shortcuts and think critically.
This negative feeling acts as an internal alarm bell
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The True Story of Donn Fendler, the 12-Year-Old Who Survived Alone in the Wilderness | TheCollector
In 1939, 12-year-old Donn Fendler disappeared while hiking Maine’s most challenging mountain. His incredible story of survival has amazed generations.
Rambus Quietly Builds The Missing Piece Of AI Servers As SOCAMM2 Becomes The Favorite AI Memory Standard
Rambus has announced its LPDDR5X SOCAMM2 memory chipset, a vital component to enable the next-gen compact memory for AI datacenters.
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations — spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
Can Traditional (and Discount) Grocery Stores Survive an Ongoing Squeeze?
Grocery stores are seeing a significant shift in loyalty and spend. What's the next move?
git branch Command: Create, List, and Delete Branches
The git branch command creates, lists, renames, and deletes Git branches. This guide explains the full command reference with practical examples for local and remote branches, merged filters, and tracking upstream branches.
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0
ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.
Shall We Play a Game?
Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.
How Aspect Ratios Define Perception, Rhythm, and Flow
A deep exploration of how aspect ratios shape perception, visual rhythm, and usability in modern interfaces. From grids to galleries to video players, this article dissects how proportion silently governs how users see, feel, and interact with content.
Portland's Long Fall Toward Hitting Bottom
Two years ago, my wife went on her morning walk past the school across the street, when she saw the school’s custodian—dead on the sidewalk of what we later learned was a heart attack.
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Tenstorrent’s Optimized AI Model, Running on Blackhole Servers, Generates 5-Sec Video In Just 2.4 Seconds
Tenstorrent has previewed its optimized AI model, which is powered by the Blackhole servers, offering blazing-fast video generation speeds.