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Earlier this week, Nvidia surprise-announced their new Vera Rubin architecture (no relation to the recently unveiled telescope) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new platform, set to reach customers later this year, is advertised to offer a ten-fold reduction in inference costs and a four-fold reduction in how many GPUs it would take to train certain models, as compared to Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture. The usual suspect for improved performance is the GPU. Indeed, the new Rubin GPU boasts 50 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (petaFLOPS) of 4-bit computation, as compared to 10 petaflops on Blackwell, at least…

I still remember when I saw the first mainstream folding phone. The original Samsung Galaxy Z Fold was presented to the media in a back room during the IFA trade show in Berlin, and it was one of the times in my 15 years as a tech journalist where I remember being blown away. Not because it was perfect – it wasn’t, of course – but because it was a defining moment in the last two decades of phones. Fast forward seven years, and here we are again. The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is another one of those moments. It’s…

Even as the world is still settling into Wi-Fi 7, the next generation is already moving from concept to test bench In sum— what to know: LitePoint validates Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi 8 hardware: LitePoint achieves PHY level validation of Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi 8 hardware on its IQxel-MX platform Platform of choice: Released in Sept, 2025, the IQxel-MX offers system-level characterization and validation of all Wi-Fi 8 and Wi-Fi 7 applications.   We have barely embraced Wi-Fi 7 — some of us are still on Wi-Fi 6 — but Wi-Fi 8 is already upon us. The new generation of Wi-Fi was one of the…

In this article, you will learn how quantization shrinks large language models and how to convert an FP16 checkpoint into an efficient GGUF file you can share and run locally. Topics we will cover include: What precision types (FP32, FP16, 8-bit, 4-bit) mean for model size and speed How to use huggingface_hub to fetch a model and authenticate How to convert to GGUF with llama.cpp and upload the result to Hugging Face And away we go. Quantizing LLMs Step-by-Step: Converting FP16 Models to GGUFImage by Author Introduction Large language models like LLaMA, Mistral, and Qwen have billions of parameters that…

It’s a crisp morning in Durham, North Carolina, and I’m staring at a patchwork of faces on my Webex screen. From September 2025 until end of last year, I’ve listened as colleagues from across our Cisco family of team members shared stories with me that were as raw as they were illuminating. Their voices, streaming in from kitchen tables, living rooms, and sometimes cars, offer a ground-level view of the digital divide—a gap that, for many, is as real as the miles of empty road stretching between rural clinics. As every state prepares for a historic wave of investment in…

When 30+ AI agents diagnose your network, can you trust them? Imagine dozens of AI agents working in unison to troubleshoot a single network incident—10, 20, even more than 30. Every decision matters, and you need full visibility into how these agents collaborate. This is the final installment in our three-part series on Deep Network Troubleshooting.In the first blog, we introduced the concept of using deep research-style agentic AI to automate advanced network diagnostics. The second blog tackled reliability: we covered reducing large language model (LLM) hallucinations, grounding decisions on knowledge graphs, and building semantic resiliency. All of that is…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. XPENG launched the new P7+ in Europe earlier today. Last November, XPENG gave me the privilege to see a preview of the car now being launched, which I can now share. This is a next-generation model in China, with the 100,000th P7+ rolling off the line this week. However, it is a new model for Europe. Multiple refinements and adjustments have been made throughout the car to adapt to the diverse user needs in both markets. Not only is the new model coming to Europe, but it also launches European…

Do you want to learn how to load a xib file to create a custom view object? Well, this UIKit tutorial is just for you written in Swift. I already have a comprehensive guide about initializing views and controllers, but that one lacks a very special case: creating a custom view using interface builder. 🤷‍♂️Loading xib filesUsing the contents of a xib file is a pretty damn easy task to do. You can use the following two methods to load the contents (aka. the view hierarchy) of the file.let view = UINib( nibName: “CustomView”, bundle: .main ).instantiate( withOwner: nil, options:…

E-Rate Funding Year 2026 FCC Form 471 Filing Window Opens On December 18, 2025, the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) revealed the application period for E-Rate funding for the fiscal year 2026! This is a vital chance for E-Rate applicants to obtain financial support for essential services and equipment that will enhance connectivity for schools and libraries January 21, 2026 – The FY2026 FCC Form 471 application filing window opens on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at noon ET. This marks the beginning of the period during which applicants can submit their application to request funding for eligible services and equipment. Applicants…

Two months after reporting that the industrial designer who introduced the iPhone Air at Apple’s September event had left for an unnamed AI company, Bloomberg has now shared details on where he went. 30 engineers hired away from tech giants to date According to Bloomberg, industrial designer Abidur Chowdhury has left Apple to join Hark, a recently founded AI startup led by Brett Adcock, who also serves as CEO of Figure AI. There is little information available about Hark. Based on a memo seen by The Information, the startup was launched just a few weeks ago with $100 million in…