Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing ...

In July 2026, social media posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump confused the words "transistor" and "transgender" during a speech criticizing the CHIPS and Science Act, a 2022 bipartisan effort ...

IBM on Thursday unveiled the first chip created using its latest semiconductor technologies, one that holds nearly 100 billion transistors in a fleck of hardware no bigger than your fingernail.

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors ...

It’s not just Apple News that’s inundating users with left-wing bias — most of the other big online news aggregators are doing it, too. Just 1% of Google News articles in non-customizable sections of ...

As people increasingly rely on AI-powered chatbots to look up basic facts about the world, a new Yale study shows that those interactions can influence users’ social and political opinions. Prior ...

A widely discussed concern about generative AI is that systems trained on biased data can perpetuate and even amplify those biases, leading to inaccurate outputs or unfair decisions. But that’s only ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the workload that defines today’s semiconductor scaling. Whether in hyperscale data centers training foundation models or at the network edge executing ...

Berkeley Lab scientists showed a novel way to build advanced transistors decades before similar structures reached smartphones. Their bottom-up approach crafted transistors at 2-nanometer scale ...

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