Here are the top tech news stories from the past week or so:
- 1.3 Million Quasars Illuminate the Universe’s Past: A groundbreaking map of 1.3 million quasars reveals the universe’s structure and expansion, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope and aiding in studying dark matter and cosmic evolution.
- Quantum Tornados Unlock Mysteries of Black Holes: By simulating a black hole in superfluid helium, scientists have seen more closely how analogue black holes function and interact with their surroundings.
- Raspberry Pi-powered AI Bike Light Detects Cars, Alerts Bikers to Bad Drivers: The Copilot can identify cars, bikes, and pedestrians and alert drivers.
- Nvidia’s Upcoming RTX 5000 Memory Interface Boost: The RTX 5090 should see a 60 – 70 per cent boost over the 4090 due to having 50 per cent more cores, 78 per cent more L2 cache, and a 15 per cent frequency increase.
- Crypto-mining Boom Threatens CPU Prices: There are indications that mining activities are driving up the prices of some CPUs, specifically high-end models from the Ryzen 7000 family.
- Outlawed Anti-drone Jammers Marketed Online: Several online retailers and drone technology companies are marketing the sale of radio frequency jammers as drone deterrence or privacy tools.
- BitTorrent No Longer the King of Upstream Internet Traffic: BitTorrent, once responsible for 31% of upstream traffic, has now fallen to third place, accounting for less than 9% of total upstream bytes on North American fixed access networks.
