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Lip-Bu Tan, a former Intel board member and a veteran of the semiconductor industry, was announced as Intel’s Chief Executive Officer, effective from the 18th of March, 2025. In a press release by Intel on the 12th of March, 2025, the company made it known that Lip-Bu Tan is to succeed interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle (MJ) Johnston Holthaus. Frank Yeary, Intel’s former interim executive chair of the board, said in the press release, “Lip-Bu is an exceptional leader whose technology industry expertise, profound relationships across the product and foundry ecosystem, and proven track record of creating shareholder value…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba is set to rival DeepSeek AI with its release of QwQ (Qwen with Questions) -32B, an open-source AI reasoning model. It was first introduced by the company in November 2024, and then on the 6th of March 2025, Alibaba made an official launch of the large language model (LLM), QwQ-32B, which rivaled the common notion about LLMs. It was believed over time that the more the parameters, the better the LLMs and the higher its performance. Parameters are internal variables or settings that are used to train LLMs to understand and generate human language, influencing the…

Lenovo, a Chinese multinational company, unveiled its new product concept, a solar-powered Yoga PC, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 held in Barcelona. During the program that ran from March 3rd to 6th, 2025, the company introduced the world’s first “ultraslim” PC that looks like a regular laptop and functions like a regular laptop but with extra features running on energy from the sun. The Yoga solar PC swaps out the laptop’s usual panel with 84 solar cells using back-contact (BC) cell technology, which allows placing electrical contacts/metal grid lines on the back of the cell to allow the…

Quantum computing is a multidisciplinary field of computer science, mathematics, and physics that harnesses the unique qualities of quantum mechanics to solve problems beyond the ability of even the most powerful classical computers. The potential quantum computing holds is unparalleled. Unlike classical computers that operate on the binary system of 0s or 1s, quantum computers utilize quantum bits, or qubits. Qubits, based on principles of superposition and entanglement in quantum mechanics, can exist in multiple states simultaneously (superposition), and two or more qubits can be manipulated in a single operation (entanglement). Meaning a qubit can be a 0 or a…

Following an announcement made by Donald Trump to form the United States’ first strategic cryptocurrency reserve (SCR) on March 2nd, 2025, Bitcoin surged by a fifth (experienced a 20% increase) after experiencing a low rate less than $80,000 for three months The tokens listed for the reserve include Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solan’s SOL and Cardano’s ADA. Two days prior to the SCR announcement, Bitcoin was trading at $78,273; after the announcement, its trade rates rose to $94,154. This decisive step by Trump signifies the US first step in incorporating cryptocurrencies into a strategic reserve and making the nation Crypto-friendly. In…

On February 28, 2025, Microsoft announced its intent to retire Skype by May 2025, signaling Microsoft Teams as its primary communication and collaboration platform. This will mark the end for one of the leading platforms that revolutionized internet-based communication. Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, with the vision of allowing people to make free voice and video calls over the internet. Two years following its launch, Skype had amassed a user base of over half a billion users, as it was the only reliable platform that facilitated international calls for free, as other platforms were…

Following what is speculated to be the biggest hack in the cryptocurrency world, Bybit announced on February 26, 2025, in a post on X formerly twitter “ We are close to 100% on our ETH reserves, and deposits & withdrawals are back to normal”. In an article by CNBC, it is stated that “Bybit replenished its reserves by securing nearly 447,000 ether tokens through emergency funding from Galaxy Digital, FalconX and Wintermute. This was done through a mix of emergency loans and large deposits”. Whilst the stolen ether has not been fully recovered, this step taken by Bybit helped keep…

Tesla, a globally known brand recognized for its electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy source (solar panels) and batteries. The company is set to venture into another technology: the smart home. In 2020, it expanded its product range to making smart home appliances with the goal of making them a part of every household. Tesla shows growing strides in AI technology, as evident in its Autopilot system and full self-driving (supervised) capabilities of some of its EVs, Cybercab robotaxi and its soon-to-be released humanoid general purpose Optimus robot. This gives a huge level of promise to the AI-powered smart home system…

It was the year 1956, when a professor at Dartmouth College, John McCarthy coined the word “artificial intelligence” during a summer workshop organized to clarify ideas about “thinking machines”. Since then world of AI has gone through significant strides from being: an idea; a rule based system(Expert Systems); an algorithm that learns from data without being explicitly programmed to do so (Machine Learning); programmed to imitate the human brain using interconnected nodes processing information (Neural Networks) and now to being able to process image recognition and natural language processing (Deep Learning). Due to these strides, debates about the possibility of…

Following the start of Nvidia’s GTC (GPU Technology Conference) five-day conference on Monday, 17th March, 2025, several companies in the quantum computing and AI industries experienced a surge in their stock prices.With most parts of the conference dedicated to AI and AI-powered products and a full day dedicated to quantum computing, which will feature executives from notable firms like D-Wave Quantum and Rigetti Computing, investors look forward to new announcements and products that will revive the beaten-down sectors.The GTC 2025 is happening in San Jose, California, with the promise of connecting thousands of developers, innovators, and business leaders and making…