Author: InfoForTech

Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. That is a major accomplishment, according to Dean Price, but he believes that our country needs much more out of nuclear energy, especially at a moment when alternatives to fossil fuel-based power plants are desperately being sought. He became a nuclear engineer for this very reason — to make sure that nuclear technology is up to the task of delivering in this time of considerable need.“Nuclear energy has…

HarperCollins is tapping into AI to bring some of its book franchises to life. Specifically, the publisher is teaming up with Toonstar, an AI animation studio, to turn them into digital shows. The first project will be an adaptation of Lisa Greenwald’s “Friendship List” series, which will also be joined by a graphic novel.You’d be forgiven for being unaware of Toonstar, a studio that received some buzzy early on for simplifying typically complex animation pipelines with AI, but has mostly remained under the radar. Its biggest claim to fame is producing StEvEn and Parker YouTube series, which has amassed 3.38…

Consultative selling promises better relationships and bigger deals. But the advantages go deeper than most sales teams realize, until it’s too late. Most B2B sales teams love to tell themselves they practice consultative selling because it sounds sophisticated. It looks good on a slide deck for a board meeting. But if you actually sit in on their discovery calls, you see the same old routine. They run through a checklist of pain points, pinpoint a gap, and then spend forty minutes mentioning how their product fills that gap. That is not consultative selling. That is just solution selling with a…

Here’s the astronauts’ out-of-this-world menu. NASA Screenshot by Corinne Reichert/CNETAstronaut eats: they’re not just Tang and Space Food Sticks these days. NASA shared a look at the menu for the Artemis II astronauts, and it doesn’t sound half bad.The Artemis II crew will enjoy more than 10 types of beverages, including coffee, mango-peach smoothies, green tea, apple cider, lemonade, a pineapple drink, cocoa and breakfast drinks flavored in their choice of chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. The most common food items they’ll eat include tortillas, wheat flat bread, vegetable quiche, barbecued beef brisket, mango salad, granola with blueberries, macaroni and cheese, tropical…

Mercedes-Benz is about to change something fundamental about how cars feel to drive, and it’s not just another software update. The company is bringing steer-by-wire tech to a production vehicle for the first time, starting with the refreshed EQS, and it’s a pretty big departure from how steering has worked for over a century. Mercedes-Benz And yes, this is the same kind of tech that’s been used in aircraft for years, and was even showcased on the Mercedes-Benz Vision Iconic. Now, it’s finally making its way into a luxury sedan. What does “steer-by-wire” actually mean here? In simple terms, Mercedes…

The history of the PC is littered with “revolutionary” features that ended up being little more than expensive paperweights. We’ve seen it with 3D screens, we’ve seen it with dedicated social media buttons, and lately, we’ve been seeing it with the initial wave of AI PCs. For the last year, the industry has been screaming about NPU TOPS and dedicated Copilot keys, yet the average buyer is looking at these machines and asking one simple question: “What does this actually do for me?” Microsoft’s execution of the Copilot+ PC launch was, to put it mildly, problematic. Between the privacy nightmare…

S’pore employers are moving towards skills-based hiring The Ministry of Manpower released its 2025 jobs report on Mar 20, and the numbers tell a story that would have seemed improbable just a decade ago.  Academic qualifications were not the main determinant in hiring for 79.6% of job vacancies last year, up from 78.8% in 2024 and 74.9% in 2023. The movement is slow enough to miss if you’re not looking, but steady enough to reshape who gets hired in Singapore. Employers who have made the shift to skills-based hiring report faster recruitment, access to a broader talent pool, and improved…

Watching the wildly popular television series Love Story took me back to a strange week in my past. One day in April 1994, I was working in a studio apartment that I used as an office. I split the cost with Cynthia Horner, a psychiatrist who’d recently moved out to live with her boyfriend, the songwriter and cyberspace philosopher John Perry Barlow, who was a friend of mine. Late in the afternoon my wife called me with the shocking news that Cynthia, just shy of her 30th birthday, was dead. I called Barlow, who told me that Cymthia had passed…

Convoy co- founder and Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dan Lewis at the Seattle AI Startup Summit on April 2, 2026. (Ken Yeung Photo) Dan Lewis’ career is hard to summarize in a sentence. He was a product manager at Microsoft, then an early employee at the Seattle AI startup Wavii, which Google later acquired. He made a stop at Amazon before ultimately boomeranging back to Microsoft, where he is today. At this week’s Seattle AI Startup Summit, it was his experience building Convoy, the one-time unicorn trucking startup that shuttered in 2023, that he wanted to talk about.  But instead…

U.S. venture capital activity surged to unprecedented levels in the first quarter of 2026, driven by a small number of outsized artificial intelligence deals that reshaped the overall market profile, according to a first look at the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released early Friday. According to the report, $267.2 billion in deal value was recorded during the quarter, more than doubling the previous quarterly record, though the total was heavily concentrated among a handful of companies. To the surprise of no one, a significant portion of that capital flowed into leading artificial intelligence firms. Big deals in the quarter included OpenAI Group PBC…