Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow explains his troubled $30M personal loan, announces new ‘super app’

Bolt’s controversial co-founder Ryan Breslow, who returned as CEO earlier this month, spoke on Monday about the $30 million personal loan he took out of his company that sparked legal battles and contributed to his (temporary) ouster. Breslow also announced that Bolt will launch an “everything app” that will integrate one-click checkouts for everything from…

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Roomba's iRobot 205 robovac can go eight weeks without being emptied

iRobot just announced some new Roomba vacuums and they feature interesting capabilities. The Roomba 205 DustCompactor Combo Robot is being advertised as "the industry's first onboard mechanical debris-compacting system." In other words, it squeezes dust and debris together like, well, a garbage compactor. This allows users to go eight weeks without having to empty the…

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Glasfaser: Gutachter bringt fixes Abschaltdatum für Kupfernetze ins Spiel

Für ein “fixes und für den deutschen Markt realistisches Abschaltdatum” aller Kupferleitungen plädiert ein Gutachten zu einem “Leitbild 2030” für den Wettbewerb im Festnetzmarkt. Das ermögliche “diskriminierungsfreie und kundenzentrierte Kupfer-Glasfaser-Migration”, was für das Gedeihen des Telekommunikationsmarktes in Deutschland unerlässlich sei. Auftraggeber des Gutachtens ist der Branchenverband VATM (Verband der Anbieter von Telekommunikations- und Mehrwertdiensten), Autor…

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This Is How Measles Kills

The phenomenon is known as immune amnesia, and it can leave people vulnerable to other infections for several weeks to months. Research has shown that it can take two to three years after a measles infection for protective immunity to fully return. “The measles virus is strongly immunosuppressive, meaning that it will interfere with the…

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DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ amid ongoing federal cuts

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired more than a hundred employees working for the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA, including “red team” staffers, two people affected by the layoffs told TechCrunch.  The people, who asked not to be named, said affected employees were axed immediately when their network access was revoked with…

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Supercomputer: Wie schnelle Algorithmen das lebende Patientenherz simulieren

Supercomputer: Wie schnelle Algorithmen das lebende Patientenherz simulieren Effizienter parallel rechnen Core-Prozessoren werden nicht mehr schneller Hunderte Rechenpunkte pro Körperzelle Mathematische Bibliothek für breites Einsatzspektrum Ursprünglich kommt der Begriff des digitalen Zwillings aus dem Ingenieurswesen: Ein Datensatz vereint sämtliche Informationen zu einer Maschine. Er verzeichnet Konstruktionszeichnungen, Einzelbauteile sowie deren Materialien und Lebensdauern, darüber hinaus Einsatzzeiten…

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