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An entrepreneur who runs a company selling farmer-invented products describes reviewing dozens of pitches a year and finding that a product's cleverness rarely predicts commercial success. Instead, the deciding factor is whether the inventor is personally committed enough to invest their own money and time into building and fulfilling demand once it arrives.
NASA has entered the testing phase for its High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, developed with Microchip Technology as the PIC64-HPSC chip. The system combines multi-core processing, fast networking, fault tolerance and AI capability into one radiation-hardened platform designed for missions from Earth orbit to deep space, promising over 100 times the performance-per-watt of current space computers.
Chris Malone, OpenAI's head of data centers, has reportedly left the company, becoming the 13th senior executive to depart this year. His exit follows a string of high-level resignations amid the company's rapid infrastructure expansion.
At Hot Chips 2026, Cerebras detailed its next two wafer-scale accelerator generations, including a new Nexus rack architecture for the CS-4 system that triples rack-scale performance using three WS-3T engines. The company also confirmed that its future CS-6 system will introduce 3D-stacked DRAM directly on top of its wafer-scale logic and SRAM, marking a first for its chip design.
Researchers at the University of Zurich recruited 1,000 volunteers to bury cotton underpants in soil across Switzerland for two months as part of a citizen science project called 'Proof by Underpants.' After digging them up, scientists measured how much fabric had decomposed to gauge microbial activity and overall soil quality, publishing the results in Plants People Planet.
X has rolled out a new feed called NFL Gametime, sitting alongside the For You and Following tabs, offering real-time scores, play-by-play data, league news and creator commentary. The feed is live now and will run through the 2027 Super Bowl, built around a static GameTime hub for tracking games.
Amazon is offering its Renewed Premium 17 Pro units, including 512GB and 1TB models, at their lowest tracked prices yet, backed by a 1-year guarantee and over 90% original battery health. The discounts arrive alongside other Apple accessory deals, including AirTag 2 from $20, a discounted AirPods Pro 3, and Anker MagSafe accessories.
A comparison of financing a 256GB iPhone 17 Pro shows Apple's own Upgrade lease program, paired with a low-cost carrier plan, totals about $1,819 over two years. Verizon's competing offer, which bundles the phone with its pricier Unlimited Ultimate plan over three years, adds up to roughly $3,520 for the same device.
Schools increasingly rely on laptops and tablets for coursework, but these same devices expose students to games, social media, and web browsing that can pull focus from schoolwork. Parents often have limited ability to adjust settings on school-managed devices, making it harder to curb distractions than on family-owned technology.
Kelan and Brittany Kline, a former jail deputy and elementary school teacher, launched the personal finance blog The Savvy Couple in 2016 while paying off roughly $40,000 in student debt. The site grew into a seven-figure online business, and by 2020 the couple's combined net worth, including their business and home, surpassed $1 million.
Amazon has discounted its 15.6-inch 2nd-generation Echo Show 15 smart display by $80, bringing the price down from $349.99 to $269.99, a 23% reduction. The deal matches the best pricing seen since Amazon's June Prime Day event.
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said on August 26, 2026 that the company expects 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028, which would translate to roughly $673 billion in annual sales based on current fiscal 2027 consensus estimates. That figure would put Nvidia ahead of Apple and Alphabet, trailing only Amazon among major US tech firms. The outlook follows a fiscal 2027 second-quarter report showing $96.2 billion in revenue and 117% growth in data-center sales to $89 billion.