March 11, 2019 NVIDIA will stop supporting 3D glasses in April Have you noticed that stereoscopic 3D is out of vogue, at least at home? So has NVIDIA. The graphics chip designer has unveiled plans…
March 11, 2019 CRISPR doc ‘Human Nature’ embraces the hope and peril of gene editing When making a documentary on something as groundbreaking and controversial as CRISPR, the gene editing tool that could potentially help us eradicate cancer, you…
March 11, 2019 NVIDIA buys high-performance chip-maker Mellanox for $6.9 billion NVIDIA confirmed that it has purchased Israeli chip-maker Mellanox for $6.9 billion, reportedly trumping a $6 billion offer made by Intel several months ago….
March 11, 2019 Spain halts plans to use electric shock treatment on violent inmates Spain is putting on hold a scientific investigation that involved zapping prisoners' brains with electricity to curb violent urges. A pilot study saw the…
March 11, 2019 The Morning After: Tesla will raise prices, but keep some of its stores We've got the biggest stories from SXSW over the weekend, as well as news on more suspicious cryptocurrency dealings (to paraphrase, it was an…
March 11, 2019 NBC’s free news streaming service will fully launch in May NBC has run a limited version of its streaming news channel for the past few months. Soon, however, it'll be ready to open the…
March 11, 2019 Nearly half of the votes in Estonia’s election were cast online While many parts of the world are still struggling with voting machines, Estonia appears to be embracing online voting with gusto. In the country's…
March 11, 2019 Tesla decides to keep more stores open and raise prices instead After saying that it will close most of its stores and go online-only, Tesla has changed its mind. The automaker announced that it will…
March 11, 2019 Palmer Luckey’s firm wins Pentagon drone AI contract Google may have backed out of the US military's Project Maven, but that doesn't mean other tech companies are unwilling to participate. The Intercept…
March 11, 2019 US arrests cryptocurrency exec over ‘multibillion-dollar’ fraud Cryptocurrency scams are nothing new, but they're rarely as large as this. US law enforcement has arrested Konstantin Ignatov over a fraud charge relating…