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China has switched on a world-first solar thermal power station in the Gobi Desert that with potential to be scaled up.
Nearly 27,000 mirrors have been installed to focus sunlight onto the 200-metre towers, which are about 1km apart.
This produces concentrated heat that melts salt at up to 570C to create steam to drive the turbines and keep the power flowing, even after sunset or on cloudy days.
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Oh, so the US can't build its fancy jets or iPhones without materials China controls? And Beijing just tightened the leash right before trade talks. It's almost like having a global monopoly on critical resources puts you in a powerful negotiating position. Who could have possibly seen this coming? 😆
China installs 100 solar panels a second as total PV capacity tops 1 terawatt.
Xiaomi's debut of its self-developed XRING O1 chip (4nm) marks a major breakthrough, positioning China among the elite few designing advanced smartphone SoCs.
It's another step towards China's tech self-reliance and offers the BRICS bloc and Global South a blueprint for reducing Western semiconductor dependence through collaboration and digital sovereignty, advancing a more multipolar digital economy.
🤖 AI is changing everything. @leo @jeffjarvis & Paris Martineau explain what’s new, what matters, and what’s next on Intelligent Machines.
🎧 https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines
#presentation
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🤖 AI is changing everything. @leo @jeffjarvis & Paris Martineau explain what’s new, what matters, and what’s next on Intelligent Machines.
🎧 https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines
In a historic shift, renewables as well as nuclear overtook coal as the world's top electricity source in early 2025. Solar power drove this transition, meeting 83% of global demand growth and enabling developing nations like China and India to actually reduce fossil fuel use.
While developing countries lead the clean energy charge, developed nations like the US and EU are increasing reliance on coal and gas.
Macron criticizes, rightfully, Europe's dependency on American and Chinese technology and the disruption this gives to our social media and democratic process.
#technology #Europe #DigitalSovereignty #Eurostack #digital #BigTech #democracy #freedom #opensource #FOSS #privacy
Macron criticizes, rightfully, Europe's dependency on American and Chinese technology and the disruption this gives to our social media and democratic process.
#technology #Europe #DigitalSovereignty #Eurostack #digital #BigTech #democracy #freedom #opensource #FOSS #privacy
This research reveals LLMs are opaque vessels for political bias, engineered by undemocratic corporate entities for profit.
Their ability to subtly shape ideology and discourse presents a profound societal threat, poised to influence mass opinion and exacerbate structural conflicts like class warfare.
We must urgently confront their potential as potent, unregulated tools of ideological control.
I wish I'd written this, but I didn’t. But you should read the whole thread, because @Daojoan has tapped into something here and we should all try to think and act more this way.
#AI #change #technology #FutureOfWork
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115321208030562919
This 1991 paper compared RISC (MIPS M/2000) and CISC (VAX 8700) architectures using organizationally similar hardware to isolate performance differences.
It found RISC was significantly more efficient, requiring the VAX to use an average of 2.7 times more CPU cycles for the same programs. The MIPS architecture won by using more numerous but simpler and faster instructions, along with more registers and quicker branches.
In a masterclass in government incompetence, occupied Korea stored 750,000 civil servants' work files in a single cloud system with no external backups.
A single fire permanently erased everything, because the system was apparently built on the "it'll probably be fine" principle of data architecture. This was a self-inflicted digital apocalypse caused by breathtaking negligence.
While the US focuses on advanced AI chips, China is cornering the market for foundational semiconductors, vital for everything from cars to military systems.
https://www.ft.com/content/8ee64d45-c1f6-408f-a1b6-bcd4dfed0a32
Google calls ICE agents a vulnerable group, removes ICE-spotting app ‘Red Dot’. 🤡
https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable-group-removes-ice-spotting-app-red-dot/
tucker's on some real shit
#AI #tucker #tuckerCarlson #foxnews #occult #AI #OpenAI #Grok #Gemini #uspol #antichrist #MARKofthebeast #kabbalah #technology #babylon
Google calls ICE agents a vulnerable group, removes ICE-spotting app ‘Red Dot’. 🤡
https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable-group-removes-ice-spotting-app-red-dot/
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