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Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included an exemption for semiconductors, which, at least for now, won’t be subject to higher import duties. But just three…

Nintendo is overhauling how digital downloads work on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 with a new feature it’s calling “Virtual Game Cards.” Virtual Game Cards, which the company said during Thursday’s Nintendo Direct livestream will launch in…

“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable, and energy-efficient probabilistic…

Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes is so important to the future of humanity that he’s asked me not to reveal our exact location, for fear that his headquarters…

Still, Apple was entranced by the possibilities, as was then-CEO Steve Jobs. “​​This was Steve's last deal,” Siri cofounder Tom Gruber told WIRED. “He was personally involved in all stages of the deal, negotiating the deal and following…

Secondly, tariffs can only make foreign companies start producing chips in the US if it becomes cheaper than doing it somewhere else. But higher American labor costs and the country’s lack of a sophisticated semiconductor supply chain means…

The day the Humane Ai Pin died, it was also reborn. Or at least, there was hope.On February 28, shortly after noon Pacific time, Humane switched off its servers supporting its contentious Ai Pin—essentially bricking a $700 device that was…

The basic machine for grinding a steel ball bearing has been the same since around 1900, but manufacturers have been steadily automating everything around it. Today, the process is driven by a conveyor belt, and, for the most part, it’s…

“If you break it down, there are a lot of moving components in the backend that people are not necessarily cognizant of," says Anurag Arjun, cofounder of crypto infrastructure startup Avail and Polygon, a crypto network built to…

In the “Startup-up, Scale-up” review report published last year, chancellor Rachel Reeves promised to make Britain the “high growth, start-up hub of the world”. Now, almost six months into the new government, entrepreneurs remain encouraged…