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MLB's robot-assisted strike zone is exposing umpire errors in real time
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
The technology is designed to reduce strike zone disputes, long the source of baseball's most heated arguments. Under the new system, each team receives two challenges per game and only loses a challenge if it is incorrect. In practice, this incentive has quickly reshaped game-day strategy – and last Saturday's...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
The two largest Gemma 4 models – 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense – require an 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU to run unquantized in bfloat16 format. Google claims these models deliver "frontier intelligence on personal computers" for students, researchers, and developers, providing advanced reasoning capabilities for IDEs, coding assistants, and agentic workflows.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
Toshiba's M12 Series of 3.5-inch drives uses Shingled Magnetic Recording to achieve storage capacities ranging from 30 to 34TB. The Japanese corporation – one of the world's largest HDD manufacturers alongside Seagate and Western Digital – said the new line of drives is specifically designed for hyperscale customers, cloud service...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ford GT Mk IV sets Nürburgring record for gas-powered cars
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
The time places the Mk IV just behind two record-holding hybrid and electric machines – the Porsche 919 Hybrid EVO and Volkswagen's ID.R – highlighting the car's singular achievement in an increasingly electrified field. It is also the fastest lap ever recorded by an American manufacturer at the famed German...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Take-Two lays off AI team members weeks after "embracing" generative AI
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
The revelation came from Luke Dicken, who was made Take-Two's Head of AI in early 2025. He wrote in a LinkedIn post that "It's truly disappointing that I have to share with you that my time with T2 – and that of my team – has come to an end."Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
NASA's Artemis laser system will send 4K video from the Moon at 260 Mbps
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
The new system, known as the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system, or O2O, will allow astronauts aboard Orion to send 4K footage from their mission to Earth at speeds up to 260 megabits per second, according to NASA. The capability marks a shift from radio-based transmissions that defined the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia shows The Witcher 4 forest demo running path tracing on an RTX 4070
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
Nvidia has published its full GDC 2026 presentation on its upcoming path tracing and micropolygon tools. The video offers a new glimpse at assets and engine functionality that will feature in the PC version of The Witcher 4.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
X is using a Supreme Court ruling to try to kill a $250 million music copyright lawsuit
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
X argued that the Supreme Court's ruling wiped out the contributory infringement claim, the only major theory left standing in limited form after last year's motion to dismiss.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple may be stockpiling mobile DRAM to outmaneuver rivals in a tight market
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently argued that Apple could widen its market share amid the current memory-market upheaval by absorbing higher memory costs instead of raising device prices. That approach, Kuo suggested, would allow Apple to expand its share even in a volatile supply environment.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Chip foundry market hit $320 billion in 2025, driven by AI demand
Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
A new report by Counterpoint Research highlights the business results of the extremely successful players in the foundry business. The research company coined the "Foundry 2.0" term because today's landscape is apparently much more complex and multifaceted than the traditional chip-making business. Either way, most silicon manufacturers have become massively...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »