Laurent Gloaguen

75th anniversary of the transistor … © iStock/Spiria. Back in December of 1947, a group of scientists at Bell Labs invented the first functional transistor. Without it, IT as we know it would probably not exist. Today, the transistor is the building…

Now that the limited beta launch is over, Epic Games’ RealityScan app is officially available free-of-charge on iOS for everyone who wants to digitize real-life objects and turn them into 3D models. To model an object, you first take several photos…

Between less-than-convincing makeup and labor-intensive and expensive post-prod, making an actor look older – or younger – in the movies hasn’t been easy. Disney researchers have been looking into how to solve the problem. The Disney Research…

Telecom equipment maker Ericsson says in its last mobility report that between now and the end of the year, 5G will have a billion wireless subscribers worldwide. That’s far less than the five billion subscribers to 4G in 2022, but it still marks a…

Back in December of 1947, a group of scientists at Bell Labs invented the first functional transistor. Without it, IT as we know it would probably not exist. Today, the transistor is the building block of all electronic devices, and microprocessors…

In a blog post, security analysts on Google’s Project Zero team stress that their company should make more of an effort to promptly issue security patches for zero-day vulnerabilities. Worrisome bugs in the ARM GPU driver, which Google has known…

Skip the leap seconds … Weltzeituhr, Alexanderplatz, Berlin. © iStock. Leap seconds are what we add to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to sync it with the inconsistent speed in the Earth’s rotation. Starting in 1972, twenty-seven leap seconds have…

Large language models using programs such as GPT-3, which can write articles and even code, are a hot AI research topic. However, according to researchers at Epoch, an AI research and forecasting organization, trouble is looming. We might soon be…