Author: Trendici
Europe’s two largest quantum computing firms announced plans to go public on the US stock market just as the European Commission was finalising urgent plans to stop deep tech firms selling to overseas investors. The launch of hurried bids by Finland’s IQM and France’s Pasqal to raise the money they need to make quicker progress in developing viable quantum computer systems coincided with the start of another urgent programme, by the US Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (Darpa). The programme pledged to prove an alternative quantum computing architecture was feasible before leading quantum firms wasted any more time and…
A large chunk of Nintendo’s 2026 plans remain a mystery (that is, unless you take the insiders and leakers at their ), but we have been waiting on release dates for a couple of previously announced first-party titles, including Rhythm Heaven Groove, which officially arrives July 2.Seemingly announced first on the Nintendo Today! app before making its way to the company’s various social channels, the first new entry in the Rhythm Heaven series in more than a decade is technically launching on the original Switch, but should also be fully playable on Switch 2. Currently the game’s Switch 2 compatibility…
Image: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times A digital vault door has been blown wide open in Los Angeles. A massive data breach has ripped through the city’s legal infrastructure, spilling 7.7 terabytes of highly sensitive police records tied to the LAPD into the open. The leak comprises roughly 337,000 files, including internal affairs investigations, unredacted criminal complaints, witness identities, and even officers’ medical information. While authorities have acknowledged the incident, they have also clarified that the LAPD’s system remained intact and that the hackers gained access to a third-party discovery system used by the Los Angeles Attorney’s office. The…
The Banana Ball World Tour is coming to Roku. The platform to stream free content from the Banana Ball Championship League. This, of course, includes Savannah Bananas games.If that last paragraph didn’t make a lick of sense to you, here’s a primer. The Savannah Bananas are a wacky baseball team, playing something called Banana Ball. The team has been called the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, and that’s a fairly apt name. Players dress in funny costumes, step into ridiculously tall stilts, perform dance routines and do all kinds of things that could frustrate traditional baseball fans but tend to delight…
A new feature that lets you create an AI avatar with your likeness is now live on YouTube. First in a blog post earlier this year, avatars are designed to be used in Shorts (provided you still them to show up), allowing you to insert yourself into video content in a way that YouTube deems to be safe and secure.YouTube’s approach to combatting the AI sloppification of the internet and the proliferation of appears to be adding more and more AI features to its platform, framing this latest addition as a tool that gives creators more control of their digital…
Sometimes, you just want your dang music streaming app to play music. Spotify, which has increasingly incorporated video features through the years, is finally giving us the option to turn that mess off. Behold: universal video toggles.Spotify’s video settings control several areas. First, the old Canvas toggle (videos on the Now Playing screen) is still there. But now you’ll find two additional switches alongside it. One lets you control whether the app plays music videos. The other, “all other videos,” covers video podcasts, vertically scrolling videos and artist clips.You’ll find the controls under Settings > Content and display. Once you…
JBL introduced two new headphones to its Live series lineup and both are fighting to live up to expectations. Don’t get me wrong, the JBL Live 780NC and 680NC are both a solid set of cans, but in a sea of noise-cancelling headphones, one of them definitely has more appeal. The biggest differences between these two headphones are the over-ear and on-ear cups, and surprisingly, their audio quality. Let’s get into what does and doesn’t make them so special.JBLThe JBL Live 780NC are a solid set of headphones that are easily lost in the sea of mid-range cans. It’s enough…
OpenAI is putting the brakes on Stargate UK, according to Bloomberg. That’s the company’s AI infrastructure project with NVIDIA that’s meant to help the UK build out its sovereign computing capabilities. The company announced Stargate UK back in September, but it launched a strategic partnership with the UK government months before that. Stargate UK would enable the government to run top AI models locally from data centers inside the region, “particularly for specialist use cases where jurisdiction matters.” But now OpenAI is pausing the project due to high cost of energy and regulatory issues.In a statement provided to the publication,…
Google has fully integrated NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, into the Gemini app. The company launched a standalone NotebookLM app last year, but as it said in its announcement, “keeping track of everything can be a challenge.” It added NotebookLM as a source in the Gemini app last year, but now you can create notebooks right inside the chatbot.You can now find the option to create a new notebook in Gemini’s side panel and then select “Add sources” that the tool can use, such as PDFs, documents, website URLs, YouTube videos and even copy-pasted text. NotebookLM will use information from…
While the billion-dollar question is about when quantum computing will become commercially viable, among the problems being tackled at the moment is how to make the most of current technology, where quantum devices experience a high error rate. Although the industry can produce machines with hundreds of physical qubits, the actual number of logical, error-free qubits available in the latest quantum computers remains very small. As the technology improves, researchers are investigating how to get the best out of today’s noisy quantum computers and considering the types of problems that quantum devices with large numbers of logical qubits could…