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John Carmack cut his ties with Meta Platforms, in a Friday letter that vented his frustration as he steeped down as an executive consultant in virtual reality. A prominent video game creator who helped lead Facebook's expansion into virtual reality has resigned from the social networking service's corporate parent after becoming disillusioned with the way the technology is being managed. John Carmack cut his ties with Meta Platforms, a holding company created last year by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in a…

Geoffrey HintonThat requirement means digital computers have missed out, Hinton said, on "all sorts of variable, stochastic, flakey, analog, unreliable properties of the hardware, which might be very useful to us." Those things would be too unreliable to let "two different bits of hardware behave exactly the same way at the level of the instructions."Future computer systems, said Hinton, will be take a different approach: they will be "neuromorphic," and they will be "mortal," meaning that every computer will be a…

Charif Souki has played a starring role in transforming America into an energy powerhouse, but his second attempt at exporting natural gas is foundering.Mr. Souki’s new firm, Tellurian Inc., TELL -1.13% is struggling to line up financing to build a large export plant for liquefied natural gas on the Gulf of Mexico despite soaring demand for cargoes of the fuel this year. After six years and $1 billion invested, the project remains stalled,…

K-Trap, AKA 27-year-old drill pioneer Devonte Perkins, used to perform wearing a balaclava, which the rapper has explained wasn’t to avoid surveillance or look like a wrong’un, but a tool to let him develop his artistry without people knowing who he was. The decision paid off. Recent mixtape The Last Whip II landed in the Top 20, Stormzy is a fan and K-Trap’s releases have featured Giggs, Fredo and Skepta. All of which has left the Londoner somewhere between underground and mainstream: playing smaller venues, but selling…

Don Lewis, a pioneer in the worlds of synthesizers and electronic music, died on Sunday at the age of 81. In the 1970s, Lewis created the Live Electronic Orchestra. The system enabled him to control multiple synthesizers and other instruments simultaneously using custom keyboards, around a decade before became a standard. Lewis worked on some well-known mainstream synths as well. He collaborated with Roland founder Ikutarô Kakehashi on the company's drum machines. Among those was , which is perhaps the most important…

Britishvolt, a UK firm developing a £3.8 billion factory to build batteries for electric vehicles, was on Monday on the brink of collapse, reports said. The troubled battery start-up, championed by former prime minister Boris Johnson as part of his drive for a greener economy, has been developing the gigafactory in Blyth, northeastern England. But it has been in emergency fundraising talks in recent weeks and could slide into insolvency as soon as Monday, the Financial Times said. Accounting firm EY had been lined up to…

Jerry Lee Lewis, the flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll founding father, swaggering country shouter and 2005 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, died Friday. He was 87.  Lewis died of natural causes at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis, his publicist, Zach Farnum of 117 Group, told The Hollywood Reporter. TMZ prematurely reported his death earlier this week. Nicknamed “The Killer,” Lewis was an electric performer who was still performing into his late 80s. Known for such rock…

Dennis Tito, most widely known as being the first space tourist back in mid-2001.WikipediaEntrepreneur Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko purchased seats on a private trip with SpaceX's Starship rocket, the third such spaceflight Elon Musk's venture has announced to date.Tito – 82, and famous for becoming the first private space tourist after flying with Russia to the International Space Station in 2001 – bought two seats on a SpaceX mission that would fly a Starship to the moon and back on a week-long mission."I've been…

Lenny Lipton, who wrote the poem that became the Peter, Paul and Mary hit “Puff the Magic Dragon” and developed technology used for today’s digital 3D theatrical projection systems, has died. He was 82. Lipton died Wednesday of brain cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Noah told The Hollywood Reporter. While studying engineering as a freshman at Cornell University, Lipton, inspired by a 1936 Ogden Nash poem, “The Tale of Custard the Dragon,” wrote a poem in 1959 on a…

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