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New research suggests that friction and disagreement among colleagues can actually enhance creativity rather than simply causing conflict. Instead of avoiding pushback, employees who engage constructively with differing viewpoints often find better solutions and more original ideas emerge.
A hardware outlet used a Lumafield Neptune CT scanner to image a delidded Intel Core i9-14900KS chip over a 12-hour scan with a 2.5mm copper filter, following a similar scan of the i9-13900K two years earlier. The interactive scan reveals internal silicon core structure, PCB layers, vias, and the rear-mounted capacitors supporting the chip's power delivery.
A functioning Apple I computer, signed and accompanied by a 1978 letter from Steve Jobs, is heading to auction at Bonhams on October 14. The letter shows Jobs personally offering original owner Charles Hatfield a trade-in for an Apple II board after Hatfield complained about lacking software. Hatfield turned down the offer and instead sold the machine for $40,000, far less than its current value.
Google has agreed to purchase nearly 400 megawatts of electricity from Fervo Energy's Cape Station geothermal plant in Utah, set to come online in 2028, with an option to buy 600 megawatts more through 2030. The power will support a new Google data center as the company seeks additional electricity sources to meet rising AI computing demands.
A new Practical Engineering video explains why railroad crossings need extensive automated warning systems: trains can take up to a mile to stop, far exceeding an engineer's sight distance, so safety depends entirely on detection equipment rather than driver reaction. The video, part of a broader series on railroads, walks through how these systems sense an approaching train and alert motorists in time to clear the tracks.
Uber is eliminating more than 3,000 positions worldwide, about 10% of its staff, returning headcount to roughly 2021 levels near 30,000 employees. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company had grown too many management layers and small teams, slowing decisions, and the cuts will consolidate teams while freeing funds for priority areas like autonomous vehicles and delivery.
Tangle is a new tool that lets users visually construct, clone, and edit machine learning pipelines through a drag-and-drop interface. It offers a library of reusable components that users can combine or customize, and also supports adding custom modules to fit specific workflows.
Uber confirmed on Wednesday it is cutting roughly 3,300 jobs, or about 10% of its 34,000-person workforce as reported in its latest annual filing. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi framed the move as an effort to make the company 'simpler' and 'faster,' without citing artificial intelligence as a driver of the cuts. Uber's stock rose following the announcement.
Chinese AI firm Z.ai's GLM-5.3 model helped find over 1,000 critical vulnerabilities in open-source projects including the Linux kernel, adding to a wave of AI-discovered bugs this year. Kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman showed data indicating CVEs fixed per kernel release have surged from about 500 to nearly 2,000 as AI code-review tools improve.
According to leaker Roland Quandt, Samsung's upcoming Galaxy A18 will offer 128GB and 256GB storage configurations and come in Light Blue, Black, and Silver colorways. The leak follows earlier CAD renders in July that showed the phone's design staying close to its predecessor's look.
Apple TV has dropped the first trailer for 'Being Heumann,' directed by Siân Heder, whose previous film 'CODA' won Best Picture in 2022. The movie dramatizes the 1977 disability rights sit-in at a federal building, starring Ruth Madeley and Mark Ruffalo. It opens in limited theaters November 6 before streaming on Apple TV starting November 13.
A federal judge has decided that Google will not be required to divest its ad exchange, formerly known as AdX, despite the company's 2025 loss in the Justice Department's ad tech antitrust case. Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google had illegally tied publishers to its exchange but rejected claims of wrongdoing on the advertiser side of the business. The full set of remedies, which may include fines and mandated changes to business practices, remains sealed for two weeks while parties negotiate redactions.