There are two parts to making a microprocessor. That’s obviously an oversimplification, because there are actually a multitude of parts, but the two highest-level are design and fabrication. It’s all well and good to design a ludicrously-fast, bleeding-edge processor, but it makes little difference if the fabrication process used to build

Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a report according to which cryptocurrency scammers have swindled Americans out of over $1 billion since 2021. Cryptocurrency scams are rampant on social media sites, as well as messaging apps like Telegram. The scams often trade on the names of cryptocurrency-related celebrities,

A few days ago a Google AI Ethics Researcher was put on leave after claiming that the company’s LaMDA AI language model, used for developing chat bots, may be sentient. Not long after that story hit, we started seeing people contemplating a potential AI or robot uprising. As unlikely as that may be, we’ve all seen the Terminator films. But