Inspired by a hike, a chemist has developed a new type of plastic that borrows a trick from nature to break down safely. The key advance is that the degradation rate is programmable, meaning a product’s lifespan can be designed from the start.
PlayStation hardware architect Mark Cerny described his late-1980s stint at Sega’s Tokyo office as a “sweatshop.” He revealed teams of just three people had three months to make a cartridge game, often sleeping at the office, under pressure to outnumber Nintendo’s catalog.
Moticont has launched a new miniature linear servo motor designed for ultra-precise motion control. The LVCM-013-025-03M features a 9.5 mm stroke and targets applications like laser beam steering and wafer handling.
Omar Bailey, former head of the Yeezy Innovation Lab, left Adidas in May 2022 to launch Fctry Lab. The company uses in-house design and 3D printing to slash prototype time from months to days, and its 50-50 profit split with stars is a game-changer.
In a major AI leadership shakeup, Apple’s John Giannandrea is retiring. The company is bringing in a former Microsoft VP to run its AI division, hinting at a more aggressive strategy.
MIT scientists have used AI to design completely new antibiotic molecules from scratch. The system generated over 29 million novel compounds in just a day or two, with at least one already clearing a drug-resistant infection in mice.
According to new research, companies are increasingly bringing back “boomerang” employees shortly after laying them off. This trend, highlighted during the pandemic and now amid AI uncertainty, reveals deep flaws in corporate workforce planning. It’s a costly cycle of poor management decisions.
In a major shift, AWS and Google Cloud have partnered on a managed networking solution to connect their clouds in minutes, not months. They plan to launch a similar link with Microsoft Azure in 2026. This comes amid outages and EU antitrust scrutiny of the cloud giants.
A new MIT study called “Project Iceberg” uses a massive supercomputer simulation to map AI’s impact on the US labor force. It finds current AI can handle tasks for 11.7% of workers, representing $1.2 trillion in wages, with effects spread far beyond the tech sector.
At SC25, Avicena announced its LightBundle optical links now operate at 4Gbps per lane with transmitter currents as low as 100µA per LED. This enables a raw link energy of just 80 femtojoules per bit, a milestone for low-power chip-to-chip interconnects in massive AI clusters.
