Month: May 2025
Amazon delivery drones crash
Last year, the mayor of College Station, Texas, a town located around 100 miles northwest of Houston, wrote a letter to the FAA complaining that Amazon’s drones were making too much noise.Amazon’s cutting-edge delivery drones fell from the sky during a December test flight after a software update made them vulnerable to rain — an
OpenAI launches Codex
The Codex agent runs in a sandboxed, virtual computer in the cloud. By connecting with GitHub, Codex’s environment can come preloaded with your code repositories. OpenAI says the AI coding agent will take anywhere from one to 30 minutes to write simple features, fix bugs, answer questions about your codebase, and run tests, among other
Windows 10’s second hand display is back
Microsoft had tweaked the interface of Windows 10’s taskbar calendar and removed the clock display from the flyout menu, annoying long-time users who depended on it and change was to eliminate the seconds display, which supposedly required extra processing resources and burdened the graphical user interface, preventing the PC’s power saving mode from activating and
Google and other AI players dominance in the market
Sentiment is changing, as AI tools and apps such as ChatGPT are starting to take share in the internet search business. Investors have reacted squeamishly to any news suggesting a potential loss of Google’s market share.Last week, Google stock was sent spiralling after Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) executive Eddy Cue signaled that the company is exploring a
Nvidia stock set weekly gain
Nvidia has unveiled a commitment with Saudi Arabia’s new AI venture Humain — which is owned by Saudi Arabia’s $925 billion Public Investment Fund to supply it with several hundred thousand AI chips over the next five years. The news came amid a flurry of deals between Humain and US Big Tech firms and chipmakers,
Trump Want iPhone to be made in US not India
The reason tech companies including Apple don’t already manufacture devices in the US is that the cost of domestic manufacturing and labor in the US is currently still too high for them to consider abandoning their international supply chains. Tariffs might be pushing the price of goods up, but shifting production to the US is
Starlink Offers alternative toPositioning, Navigation, and Timing
SpaceX is advocating for Starlink to deliver positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services in addition to its existing broadband services, as per a report in Teslarati. This initiative aligns with the FCC’s efforts to explore alternative PNT technologies to enhance resilience and security, given the vulnerabilities of GPS to jamming and spoofing, which pose risks
Potential US semiconductor manufacturing boom Complicated by new tariffs
Although the U.S. is a major producer of certain types of semiconductor chips, the nation’s share of global chip production measured by volume and not dollar value fell from 37% in 1990 to just 10% in 2022, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. As a result, the country relies heavily on imports from Taiwan and
YouTube annual Brandcast advertising event
YouTube is already an advertising behemoth, bringing in more ad dollars than most of its traditional media competitors combined, but it is clearly not resting on its laurels. The company celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this year, and brought out some of its creators on stage that have broken through the pop culture zeitgeist to
USA and Saudi Arabia AI deals
The Trump team has worked out agreements for parties in Saudi Arabia to acquire tens of thousands of semiconductors from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, while shipments to the United Arab Emirates could top a million accelerators — mostly for projects involving or owned by US companies. Such chips are used to develop and train