Tech that just got out.Explained so a 12-year-old gets it, checked against the original paper, then turned into business ideas you can test this week.
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Research Radar/Semiconductors & chips/India
A review of AI chips shows memory bandwidth, not arithmetic, sets the speed of language models. A flagship phone tops out near 19 tokens a second, and an H100 near 24 on a 70 billion parameter model.
Research Radar/Edge computing/United Kingdom
An explanation setup scored a perfect 1.000 for steadiness while scoring 0.0502 for truthfulness. It looked steady only because it barely changed between different photos.
Research Radar/Drones & autonomous vehicles/USA · Germany
A US workshop of 47 experts named 12 technical challenges standing between today's drones and fleets that work like national infrastructure. It is a vision report with no experiment.
Research Radar/Space tech/Germany · USA
In a computer model, 24 shoebox satellites stuck to a dead 668 kg craft turned it 180 degrees in 1,228 seconds. The worst pointing error was 0.6 degrees.
Zero trust drops the idea that anyone inside the office network is safe. Learn the rule behind it, the five things it checks, and three moves any small team can make this week.
Virtualization splits one real computer into several machines made of software. Learn how a hypervisor does it, why data centres depend on it, and where it costs you.
Virtual reality replaces the room around you with a computer-made world you can look around inside. This guide covers how a headset fools your eyes, why some people feel sick, and what VR is genuinely useful for.
Two-factor authentication asks for a second proof after your password, so a stolen password is no longer enough. Learn the methods ranked from weakest to strongest, and how to avoid being locked out.
Explainer/Artificial intelligence
Training data is the pile of examples a model learns from, and it sets the limit on what that model can ever do well. Here is where it comes from, how bias gets in, and what to check.
TinyML runs machine learning on chips the size of a fingernail, on battery power, for months. Learn how models get that small, what they do well, and where they fail.
Explainer/Internet of Things/Kenya
The Internet of Things is everyday objects that sense, report and act without a person watching. Learn what is inside one, how they connect, and why upkeep sinks more projects than technology does.
Space debris is the rubbish left in orbit, from dead satellites down to flecks of paint. This page explains where it comes from, why speed makes it deadly, and how it is tracked and cleared.