Jung also highlighted the South Korean military’s personnel shortage, especially among noncommissioned officers and officers expected to help train new conscripts to use drones. Lessons from Ukraine It’s worth noting that Ukraine, the model for so many countries’ military reform efforts, does not field a military where everyone is trained to be a drone pilot—although…
JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking — and it’s had a busy year. As the international supercomputing community gathers at ISC in Hamburg this week, four projects running on JUPITER point to what exascale computing can actually do: map the human…
YouTube is rolling out a series of changes to Shorts, including a new method that lets users shrink the duration of short-form videos. The Google-owned platform announced Thursday that Shorts now comes with a setting that allows users to double their playback speed. The point of making what is an already brief experience even briefer…
I like having Google’s smart speakers scattered around my home. I’m constantly using them to check the weather, add to my shopping lists, and ring my phone, which I’ve misplaced for the fifth time that day. I use a Nest Mini and a Nest Audio, but I’ve wanted to replace the former for a while…
Android users who have TSA PreCheck can now go through airport security without needing to scan a boarding pass or show a physical ID. Touchless ID, which previously was available to travelers on only a handful of airlines, now works in Google Wallet, and all you need is a passport and a TSA PreCheck membership….
The big audiences for the 2026 men’s World Cup on Fox Sports have extended to the programming around the matches. Fox’s pregame show has more than doubled its audience from the 2022 World Cup, according to Nielsen figures for the first 12 days of the tournament. Through the second leg of the group stage, which…
Your Apple TV 4K remote looks like it’s very simple, and that’s mostly because it is, but that doesn’t mean it’s not home to its fair share of shortcuts. While it might not have the number of buttons its competitors have, its small form factor has made it a favorite of mine. Over time, I’ve…
The growing use of AI contributed to Oracle laying off 21,000 workers in a year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. In its annual regulatory filing for the fiscal year ending May 31, Oracle said it has 141,000 full-time employees. In its 2025 filing, Oracle said it had 162,000 employees. The…
There are plenty of AI image-generation models these days, but the ones capable of quality outputs tend to be slow and expensive. Google DeepMind says its new image model, known as Nano Banana 2 Lite, offers the best balance of quality and speed. It’s available today across the Google ecosystem, creating images in a fraction…
