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• What Happens When Fighter Jets Break the Sound Barrier? The Remarkable Science

  Introduction When a fighter jet flies across the sky and shatters the sound barrier (goes supersonic), it is not just a matter of putting a bigger engine inside the metal body. Fly

• New memory breakthrough where bio meets tech

  Currently, we are facing a memory crisis due to AI and next-gen tech. Current computers waste 80% of the energy shuffling data between memory and processing units. This puts a wall

• The Remarkable Rise and Fall of India’s D2H Era

  What is D2H? D2H stands for “Direct-to-Home,” a satellite-based technology that sends television signals to a subscriber’s home, which has a satellite dish.In India, it also refers

• How the 2026 FIFA World Cup Uses a New Football With Sensors

  A football isn’t a very complicated piece of technology. It’s just some layers of artificial fibres woven together, and it is kicked around for 90 minutes. But at the FIFA World Cu

• OpenAI’s First Consumer Device Is on the Horizon

  About OpenAI OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organisation headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit co

• Quantum Leap: New Gold ‘Metacrystal’ Just Changed Computing Forever

  Imagine a supercomputer so fast that it can break complex banking systems and simulate life-saving drugs in seconds. Quantum computing is the next era of computing for humanity. It

• Apple’s September 2026 Event: A New Era for iPhone

  Every year, Apple announces new devices in their September event. This year, the most anticipated announcements are the ones about the iPhone 18, new updates to the Apple Watch and

• Demystifying the Magic: How CGI and VFX Power Modern Cinema

  Have you ever wondered how mythical creatures in movies and different alien worlds feel so real in movies. Cinema has changed drastically from practical sets to digital geniuses. T

• 2D: Experiment That Was Labeled “Impossible” Until Now

  In the real word, any object you see, you feel, you touch is 3D, for example: a sheet of paper. Realistically 2D objects aka having only 2 dimensions, which are, length and width a

• Google Uses AI to Help Fix 1,072 Chrome Security Bugs

  What are security bugs? A security bug is a flaw, error, or unintended behaviour in software, hardware, or system configurations that can negatively affect security. While not ever

• 6G – What will the next generation of wireless technology look like?

  The arrival of 5G marked a revolutionary leap in technology. It introduced faster downloads, lower latency, network slicing and the ability to connect millions of devices. While 5G

• Can It Run DOOM? Scientists Just Used Living E. coli to Play the Classic Game

  What exactly is E. coli? Escherichia coli, commonly known as E.coli, is a species of bacteria found in the intestines of warm-blooded organisms. In scientific research, it is used

• The Hidden $6.7 Trillion Engine Powering the Future of AI

  The Hidden Engine of AI: Why Data Infrastructure Holds the Key to the Future Every time you prompt an AI, create a digital image, or generate code, the seamless, lightning-fast res

• DLSS 5: Why It Isn’t Really Free Performance (Hidden Costs)

  There is a version of this article where I just explain what DLSS 5 is and tell you it looks pretty good and leave it there. I am not going to write that article. I’ve been trying

• New tech evolves from Cortical Labs: Brain cells play Doom

  Doom, a classic video game released in the year 1993 is now more or less a meme, as people joke about how the game can run on any device. Some examples being calculators, ATMs, sma

• Samsung S26 Ultra has a privacy screen: is it good?

  The Samsung S26 Ultra now has a new feature called the Privacy display, which basically does the work of a privacy screen protector but way better. While using a privacy screen pro

• The Lunar Landing is not a hoax: full evidence

  On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the Moon marking a historic and remarkable achievement for mankind during the Apollo 11 mission by NASA. After this missi

• Quantum computer: ultimate failure of encryption and privacy

  Quantum computers are the future of humanity. These computers use qubits instead of traditional bits. Qubits are made by manipulating fundamental particles of the universe such as

• Galaxy XR: Samsung’s new tech in VR industry

  Samsung has finally revealed their new Galaxy XR headset. The headset uses Google’s android XR operating system Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 platform. The Galaxy XR headset cos

• Microsoft’s new Quantum Chip: A step closer to Quantum Computers

  Microsoft’s Majorana 1 is the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture which is a breakthrough in the field of quantum computing. Now complex probl

• PS6 updates: Sony and AMD tease new upgrades

  Sony and AMD have finally revealed new graphics, possibly for the PS6. Senior VP and general manager of computing and graphics at AMD, Jack Huynh, and Sony’s PS5 Lead Architect, Ma

• OpenAI Buys AMD Chips in 5-Year Deal to Challenge Nvidia

  AMD Challenges Nvidia with Massive OpenAI Chip Deal AMD is partnering with OpenAI to supply six gigawatts of processors for AI data centers, directly challenging Nvidia’s dominance