India’s trade minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said the growth of big e-commerce companies such as Amazon.com Inc. risks putting about 100 million small mom-and-pop stores in the country out of business. “I don’t see it as a matter of…
Transcript Saenz: I’m Jeremy. We are going to talk all about NATS. First, let me just tell you a little bit about what NATS is. At the company that I work for, which we maintain the NATS open source project,…
SAN FRANCISCO – A NASA formation-flying experiment shows the promise of autonomous navigation for satellite swarms. The four cubesats in the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment, or StarFOX, calculate their orbits by combining visual images from star trackers with robotics algorithms.…
Microchip Technology Inc. said Tuesday that its servers were hit by a cyberattack that has forced the US chipmaker to shut some of its systems and scale back operations. The company, which supplies chips to the US defense industry, detected…
Transcript Munro: I’m James Munro. I’m going to talk about why a hedge fund built its own database technology. I run ArcticDB at Man Group. Man Group is the asset manager. I was a physicist originally. Spent some time doing…
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, and Northeastern University created a new type of neural network: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks (KAN). KAN models outperform larger perceptron-based models on physics modeling tasks and provide a more interpretable visualization. KANs…
A Chinese-made game backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd. has become the fourth most-played title on Steam within hours of its launch, an unusually rapid ascent that may help seal its place in industry lore. Black Myth: Wukong, an action-adventure title…
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is among those missing after a luxury yacht was struck by a tornado and sank off the coast of Sicily. One person has died and six others are missing after the boat, named the Bayesian,…
MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest wireless carrier by revenue, posted its first loss since 2016 after the devaluation of the Nigerian naira crimped income from one of its key markets. The group reported a loss of 7.39 billion rand ($414.7…
Apple’s move to drop Qualcomm modem chips won’t have a payoff at the outset, but it could set the stage for bigger things later. Also: The company pushes ahead with a tabletop robot; Google’s new Pixel devices show how far ahead it is…
Elon Musk’s X is closing its operations in Brazil while keeping the service available in the country, according to posts Saturday from the social-media platform. The announcement marks the latest step in a showdown between the world’s richest man and…
With the release of MariaDB 11.6, the MariaDB Foundation has announced the public preview of Vector search for the open-source fork of the MySQL engine. Database experts and open-source advocates see vector support as an opportunity for MariaDB to lead…