Bay Area semiconductor testing company to lay off more than 200 workers

FormFactor, which offers equipment to test semiconductors, also told the state it plans to close down manufacturing ...

NASA to Demolish Iconic Towers Used to Test Saturn V, Space Shuttle

The Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, also known as the T-tower, was built in 1957 by the Army Ballistic Missile ...

NTSB Issues Urgent Safety Recommendations After Fatal Hawker Stall Test Accidents

Fatal accidents involving Hawker 800 and 900XP jets have prompted the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to issue ...
Open Heart

Machine learning-based cardiovascular risk calculator for non-cardiac surgery

Background Annually, 4% of the global population undergoes non-cardiac surgery, with 30% of those patients having at least ...
The Aviationist

South Korea Starts KF-21 Pit Drop Trials with Air-to-Ground Weapons

South Korea is working on the introduction of an air-to-ground capability for the KF-21 Boramae, as well as a new air-to-air ...
CoinDesk

Bitcoin Hashrate Sees Sharpest Post Halving Drop Since 2024 Amid China Machine Shutdowns

Former Canaan chairman Jack Kong said in a post on X, as many as 400,000 mining machines have recently gone offline in China. Kong said computing power fell by roughly 100 exahashes per second (EH/s) ...
AZFamily

ASU researchers developing single drop blood test

TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Arizona State University researchers are developing a blood test that can detect certain diseases in minutes using a single drop of blood. ASU associate professor Chao Wang and ...
Android

iPhone 17 Air Extreme Drop Test: Will Apple's Ultra Slim Phone Survive?

A GizmoSlip drop test encased the iPhone 17 Air in a watermelon and tossed it from 250 feet, resulting in a shattered back and a seemingly dead display. Surprisingly, the phone may still have some ...
Ars Technica

Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...
The New York Times

An A.I. Machine That Passes the Smell Test

A roving installation uses a detailed questionnaire and artificial intelligence to help consumers concoct their own perfumes. By Jane Margolies Ever since making an appointment to create a custom ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft testing faster Quick Machine Recovery in Windows 11

Quick Machine Recovery was introduced in November 2024 as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative at Ignite 2024, in response to a massive July 2024 outage caused by a buggy CrowdStrike ...
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What a 45-meter vending machine drop reveals about extreme material strength

A 400-kilogram vending machine was dropped from a height of 45 meters to test the limits of the world’s strongest trampoline. The result was part science experiment, part viral spectacle, showcasing ...