Injury to Ireland No 8 looks ‘serious’, says Leinster coach Andy Farrell due to name tour squad on Thursday Maro Itoje’s chances of being named British & Irish Lions captain this week have been strengthened after Caelan Doris – one of his closest rivals for the role – emerged as...
How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast
Direct to consumer tests that claim to tell us our biological – as opposed to chronological – age are getting a lot of attention, but what can they really tell us about our health? Science editor Ian Sample talks to Dr Brian H Chen, an epidemiologist at the California Pacific...
Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study
Survey of 164 primates in Rwanda shows how impact of being close to others is affected by group size and sex Human friendship groups are complex – and often fraught – but a study of mountain gorillas has found that their societies can also be head-scratchingly complicated. The study, which...
Online tests revealed I have a multitude of food sensitivity issues – but are they trustworthy?
Three different tests flagged up a long list of potential problem foods, but they failed to agree on a single one The list of foods I should consider cutting out is long and daunting. Meat, mushrooms, most nuts and seeds, milk products, soya beans and potatoes – all this would...
AMD patents hint at significant ray tracing improvements in future GPU architectures
Reddit user MrMPFR's analysis of AMD patents from the past year and a half reveals that the company is serious about treating ray tracing as the future of real-time graphics rendering. While Nvidia has driven most of the technology's progress over the last several years, Team Red might finally be......
Astronomers spot possible Planet Nine in data spanning 23 years
Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, dubbed Planet Nine, could explain the unusual clustering of distant objects in the Kuiper Belt – a region beyond Neptune filled with icy bodies like Pluto. A new study led by astronomer......
Original Fallout source code survived thanks to “rogue” Interplay co-founder
Rebecca Heineman, a veteran programmer and co-founder of Interplay, told VideoGamer that she made personal backups of Fallout and Fallout 2 while working on Mac ports of the games. Her habit of creating archival CD-ROMs stemmed from an earlier failed attempt to recover the source code for Wasteland – the......
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants to put data centers in space
In his new role as CEO of Relativity Space, Eric Schmidt appears to be exploring the idea of launching data centers into Earth's orbit. During a recent congressional hearing, Schmidt discussed the future of AI and US competitiveness, emphasizing that the energy demands of massive data centers are already spiraling......
Opinion: Are we nearing the peak of custom ASIC adoption?
We think it is important to remember that the case for custom silicon is an economic choice, not a technical one. Read Entire Article
Over 250 tech leaders push for computer science and AI course requirements in US schools
The campaign emphasizes new research showing that taking just one high school computer science course can boost early career earnings by eight percent, regardless of a graduate's eventual profession. It also references a World Economic Forum report that identifies expertise in AI and data as the most sought-after capability by......