After semiconductors, semimetals might be the next big thing as the tech industry looks for a replacement for ubiquitous copper
Copper is reaching its limits, and semimetals like niobium phosphide could revolutionize conductivity, enhancing efficiency ...
Vanity Fair18d
Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion
This is not a church service or even a Bible study. It is, instead, an entirely new kind of event in Silicon Valley. We are here to listen in on a conversation between Dr. Francis S. Collins ...
Android Authority19d
Should you buy a phone with a silicon-carbon battery? Here's the catch
Thankfully, battery engineers are on the case, and many of today’s best flagship smartphones are now shipping with new silicon carbon batteries. This allows them to boast even larger battery ...
theregister19d
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
GTC Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with "millions of GPUs," arguing that the ...
Interesting Engineering20d
World’s first silicon-based quantum computer powered by regular socket unveiled
Equal1, a spin-off company from the University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, has unveiled the world’s first silicon-based quantum computer at a conference in California. Dubbed Bell-1 ...
C&EN20d
Electron Inversion and Tunneling at Silicon Thermal Oxide Interfaces for Solar-Driven Molecular Catalysis to Syngas
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States ...
Wall Street Journal20d
Silicon Valley Invests in Israeli Startups in Bid for U.S. Defense Market
Venture-capital firms that have been pouring money into American defense startups are setting their sights on Israel, investing in military tech companies that have emerged since the country went ...
Forbes21d
Google Prepares To Change The Pixel’s Tensor Mobile Silicon
This is a fundamental reworking of the silicon. The Pixel 10 family is widely expected to launch a new Tensor Mobile chipset. Since the launch of the Tensor G1 on the Pixel 6, each new Pixel ...
Interesting Engineering22d
China’s new silicon-free chip beats Intel with 40% more speed and 10% less energy
The new bismuth-based transistor could revolutionize chip design, offering higher efficiency while bypassing silicon’s limitations.
Los Angeles Times22d
Elon Musk brought a Silicon Valley mindset to Trump’s Washington. It’s been a disaster
Though O’Mara served for a time on the staff of Vice President Al Gore, an early techie adapter and one of Silicon Valley’s strongest political allies, she didn’t work on tech policy.
Wired24d
The Silicon Valley Christians Who Want to Build ‘Heaven on Earth’
A high-profile network of investors and founders in Silicon Valley are promoting a new moral vision for the tech industry, in which job choices and other decisions are guided not by the pursuit of ...
The Atlantic24d
Was Sam Altman Right About the Job Market?
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The automated future just lurched a few steps closer. Over the past few weeks, nearly ...