The First Computer

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  Indian Government Launches AI Compute Portal, Dataset Repository AIKosha to Boost Innovation

  The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched several artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives on Thursday. The announcements were made on the occasion of the first anniversary of the IndiaAI Mission, which is on March 7. Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw unveiled the India AI Compute Portal during an event, which ...

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  Microsoft’s Majorana 1 Chipset With Topological Core Architecture Could Boost Quantum Computing

  Microsoft announced the development of the Majorana 1 chipset on Wednesday, highlighting a breakthrough in quantum computing. The Redmond-based tech giant has been researching new materials and architectures for 17 years and now claims to have developed the world's first 'topoconductor' — a material that exists in a distinct state beyond solids, ...

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  IIT Madras and ISRO Unveil IRIS, India’s First Aerospace-Grade Semiconductor

  IIT Madras and ISRO have successfully developed and booted IRIS, an indigenous aerospace-grade semiconductor chip for space applications. Based on the SHAKTI processor, IRIS is designed for IoT and compute systems, integrating fault-tolerant memory and advanced serial buses. The entire design, fabrication, and assembly were completed in India under...

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  Asus ExpertBook P5 (P5405) Review: Sleek and Sensible

  Asus’s first Copilot+ PC aims to offer a sensible balance of performance, value and style along with some AI chops to assist employees and self-employed professionals as well. Despite being slightly inferior to its higher-priced sibling, the Zenbook S14, it still manages to deliver excellent value, making it an attractive choice for everyday work...

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  Apple Reportedly Begins Production of M5 Chips Expected to Power Upcoming iPad Pro, Mac Models

  Apple's M5 chips are reportedly in mass production, according to a South Korean publication. Following the October 2024 launch of MacBook Pro models with M4 Pro and M4 Max chipsets, the M5 chips are expected to debut in the second half of 2025. Produced using TSMC's 3nm process technology, the new processors are expected to power Apple's upcoming M...

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  Apple Said to Stop Development of AR Glasses for Mac Computers

  Apple has reportedly halted the development of new AR smart glasses meant to work with Mac computers. Following the launch of the Apple Vision Pro as its first mixed reality headset, last year in the US, the AR glasses were expected to be Apple's most ambitious wearable since the Vision Pro, before the project was shelved, according to a Bloomberg ...

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  Prime Target Series Now Streaming on Apple TV+: Everything You Need to Know

  Prime Target, a new conspiracy thriller series, premiered on Apple TV+ on January 21, 2025. The show stars Leo Woodall as Edward Brooks, a mathematician who uncovers a world-changing loophole hidden in prime numbers, allowing access to global computer systems. This discovery sets him on a dangerous path, with powerful forces attempting to destroy h...

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  AMD Adds Dell as Commercial PC Customer for the First Time

  Dell has decided to use AMD chips in some of its computers aimed at business customers, according to AMD executives who are speaking Monday at the CES show in Las Vegas.

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  Elon Musk’s Neuralink Cleared to Start Brain Chip Trial in Canada

  Toronto Western Hospital would be the first non-US site of a trial for a device created by Neuralink Corp. Neuralink’s first product aims to allow patients to control external devices, such as computers, through their thoughts.

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  Apple Intelligence Writing Tools Support for Windows Apps Arrives on Parallels Desktop

  Apple Intelligence can now be accessed while running Windows applications on a Mac computer using Parallels Desktop. The first wave of Apple Intelligence features started its rollout to US users earlier this week with the iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 software updates, and Parallels has added support for the feature.

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  Mac Mini With M4 Chip and Apple Intelligence Launched in India: Specifications, Price

  Apple on Tuesday launched a refreshed version of the Mac Mini — its compact desktop computer, building upon the unveiling of the 24-inch iMac M4 a day before. The new Mac Mini is offered in two chipset options: M4 and M4 Pro, with the latter being a new introduction. The M4 variant is claimed to deliver up to 1.7 times faster performance than the...

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  Elon Musk’s xAI Introduces Image Understanding Feature to Grok AI

  Elon Musk, the founder of the artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI, announced a new feature for Grok on Monday. The in-house AI chatbot is now getting image understanding capability that allows it to process and analyse the content in an image. Users can now upload an image and ask the AI questions based on it.

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  Mistral Announces Pixtral 12B Multimodal AI Model With 'Computer Vision' Feature

  Mistral released its first multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Pixtral 12B on Wednesday. The AI firm, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on GitHub and Hugging Face for users to download and test it out. Notably, despite being multimodal, Pixtral can only process image...

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  Microsoft to Host Cybersecurity Summit After CrowdStrike-Induced IT Outage

  Microsoft has announced that it will host a summit next month that will let industry members understand how to improve cybersecurity systems, in the aftermath of a faulty update from security firm CrowdStrike that left millions of Windows computers around the world in an unusable state on July 19. The gathering on September 10 at its headquarters w...

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  Scientists Baffled By 2,000-Year-Old 'Computer' Discovered 120 Years Ago

  The hand-powered instrument used a wind-up system to track the celestial movements of the sun, moon, and planets.