Lasers could soon keep military drones flying indefinitely

PowerLight recently confirmed that its laser-powered technology is approaching a crucial phase in its development cycle, with real-world deployment capabilities for the US Army now in sight. The company has successfully tested the system's core components, which are designed to wirelessly recharge drones while they remain airborne. Read Entire Article

Windows 95 had a secret restart trick most people never knew

Raymond Chen recently shared another interesting tidbit about the inner workings of Windows 95. The original 32-bit consumer operating system had a "secret" fast-restart feature, which users could activate by holding the Shift key while restarting through the OS GUI. If everything worked as intended, the system would restore a......

Why Silicon Valley is losing faith in the American dream

In Silicon Valley, the servers are humming again – and so is the unease. Massive data centers packed with Nvidia GPUs are fueling the artificial intelligence boom, generating extraordinary wealth for chipmakers, cloud providers, and startups racing to train large-scale models. But beneath the boomtime exuberance, investors and engineers increasingly......