"Huawei has stepped up its ambitions in advanced energy storage with a patent for a sulfide-based solid-state battery that offers driving ranges of up to 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) and ultra-fast charging in just five minutes. The development signals a significant push by the tech giant to stake a claim in the fast-evolving solid-state battery landscape."

"For what I think are mostly sociological reasons, people who have built neural networks such as LLMs have mostly tried to do without explicit models, hoping that intelligence would “emerge� from massive statistical analyses of big data. This by design. As a crude first approximation, what LLMs do is to extract correlations between bits of language (and in some cases images) - but they do this without the laborious and difficult working (once known as knowledge engineering) of creating explicit models of who did what to whom when and so forth. It may sound weird, but you cannot point to explicit data structures, such as databases, inside LLMs. You can’t say, “this is where everyth...

"IEEE Spectrum takes you inside the most advanced sky-mapping instrument ever built—and reveals its stunning first images. . . . Rubin is unlike any telescope ever built. Its exceptionally wide field of view, extreme speed, and massive digital camera will soon begin the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) across the entire southern sky. The result will be a high-resolution movie of how our solar system, galaxy, and universe change over time, along with hundreds of petabytes of data representing billions of celestial objects that have never been seen before."