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Off the Wire Press Releases ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, June 4, 2026 — QuiX Quantum has announced the first installation of its Feed-Forward Control Unit (FFCU), a high-performance hardware component developed for the company’s universal photonic quantum computing architecture. The FF

8GB of RAM is back on laptops — companies are lowering memory offerings to make affordable notebooks during component crisis Dell, Acer, Microsoft, and Chuwi are among those who have eschewed the short-lived 16GB standard before and at Computex. For a brief time from 2024 through

Meta announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new AI creator assistant on Facebook that will give creators personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, community, and goals. Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand t

As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers Conference kick

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NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ground teams didn’t hear from the spacecraft when it was supposed to regain contact w

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says, ‘It will be a long time before we can meet customer demand’ — tells shareholders that he will keep prices stable, refrain from implementing price hikes All this demand for AI chips is just too much for one company. TSMC CEO C.C. Wei has told company shareh

A burglar used a Waymo while stealing yoga clothes in San Francisco this past January, and police have still not caught them. That may sound counterintuitive given the widespread concern that Waymo vehicles and other robotaxis are rolling surveillance machines. But this curious c

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PEAK:AIO’s Lattice open-source pNFS metadata server speeds AI data feeds PEAK:AIO and Los Alamos national Laboratory (LANL) have developed a dynamically scalable, open-source metadata server for parallel NFS, permitting up to 1,000 metadata servers and enabling higher-speed file

Digital wallet app Cash App is launching a new gadget on Thursday, seemingly inspired by the social media trend that involves paying for items in the real world with a tap of a homemade magic wand, which hides a tap-and-pay credit card. Now, there’s a real wand you can buy to tak

What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters Qiqi Wu Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud At Google Cloud, our goal is to let you run large-scale analytical and data science workloads with maximum efficiency so you can process big data pipelines, machine learning, and

Qualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI future We sat down with Qualcomm at Computex 2026. Qualcomm's Snapdragon C is making a major play for the hottest laptop market in 2026: The ultra budget segment

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This RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop is just $1,499 — Walmart fights AI price crisis with $500 discount Get an MSI Vector A16 with a potent GPU for gaming As PC gaming costs continue to rise thanks to the AI crunch, pre-built PCs and gaming laptops continue to be a rare source of solac

Nintendo Switch 2 with user-replaceable batteries coming to the EU — console maker confirms it will comply with regulations set to take effect from 2027 Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers might also be revised. Nintendo has officially disclosed that it's planning on releasing a new ver

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Waymo announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of robotaxis it has

After a slow start, Subaru’s electrification journey picked up a bit this year with the debut of a pair of new electric vehicles, the Uncharted and the Trailseeker. Neither is truly an in-house Subaru—like the Solterra EV before them, they use Toyota’s e-TNGA platform. The Solter

Off the Wire Press Releases June 4, 2026 — Scientists envision batteries will play a central role in improving the security and cost-effectiveness of America’s energy systems. But achieving this requires solving numerous technical challenges, such as designing high-performance ba

CoolIT Systems has announced the development of what it describes as the first 15kW direct liquid cooling (DLC) coldplate design, positioning single-phase liquid cooling as a viable path for AI infrastructure well beyond 2030. The company reports that the design delivers nearly f

From Data Centers to Models: White House Targets AI Risks at the Source New White House guidance expands federal scrutiny beyond AI campuses and power demand to the frontier models running inside them. The White House wants a closer look at the most powerful AI systems before the

Off the Wire Press Releases CALGARY, Alberta, June 4, 2026 — CoolIT Systems (CoolIT) has announced that it developed the first 15kW coldplate design. Delivering nearly four times the performance of earlier single-phase direct liquid cooling (DLC) coldplate designs, this breakthro

Corporate expense management platform Ramp on Thursday said it has raised $750 million at a valuation of $44 billion, nearly tripling its valuation within just a year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup. The funding round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and O

Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perched on the northeast edge of the bay, the small city is home to Hello Robot, a startup that itself is about as far as one can get from the maximalist promises

Between the Computex and Microsoft Build conferences this week, Microsoft and NVIDIA have been spending a fair bit of time promoting NVIDIA’s RTX Spark SoC. With NVIDIA becoming the second Arm chip vendor to join the Windows 11 ecosystem, the two companies have been eager to prom

Spies working for Chinese intelligence are using job search and recruitment websites, including LinkedIn, to lure Western workers into sharing sensitive information, according to a joint advisory by the FBI, the U.K.’s security service MI5, and the governments of Australia, Canad

Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year deal worth hundreds of millions despite resident backlash The majority of residents oppose the agreement SpaceX has won a 100% property

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. As AI Scales, Can Traditional Cooling Keep Up? As AI workloads push rack densities higher, operators are rethinking cooling strategies as power demands, water use, and infrastructure limits collide. AI a

Fiber expansion still has significant room to grow, according to Nir Hollander, general manager of Amdocs Mobile & Fiber Networks. Speaking with Fierce Network TV, Hollander said about 60% of U.S. homes now have access to fiber, while adoption sits closer to 45%, leaving addition

US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for layoffs Challenger data shows tech leading both layoffs and hiring. U.S. tech companies announced 38,242 job cuts in May, more than a

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. — the world’s biggest semiconductor-maker — is struggling to meet demands from American customers even with its factory buildout in the US, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. “Customer demand is so high, and we can only support

On Monday, SpaceX amended its initial public offering to state that water conditions—including water scarcity, regulations around water, and drought—could constrain data center development. It isn’t the only tech company trying to assess how water scarcity might impact its busine

Apple on Thursday offered its annual update on the state of the App Store ecosystem ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that begins next week. The technology giant said that its App Store facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025, a fi

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I can’t recommend it enough. Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trill

Off the Wire Press Releases LONDON, June 4, 2026 – OQC, JPMorganChase and AMD have announced a research collaboration leveraging a new and dedicated Quantum-AI Data Centre, built by OQC in London. JPMorganChase researchers will test near-term quantum and hybrid quantum-classical

A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a Columbia University data breach last year. That group? People with absolutely no connection to the school. The text included a photo of a

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Coinbase on Thursday unveiled a new product that lets customers get price exposure to private companies before they go public, starting with a perpetual futures contract –better known as a "perp" – tied to SpaceX. Pre-IPO perps give traders the ability to speculate on the value o