‘Obex’ boots up an early moment of computer escapism with nightmarish panache

A concentrated labor of love for filmmaker Albert Birney, the low-budget indie bears the paranoid black-and-white sheen of ...
Computer Weekly

Ethical hackers can be heroes: It's time for the law to catch up

The last year has seen some of the costliest cyber attacks on UK businesses to date. Attacks on Marks & Spencer cost the supermarket chain hundreds of millions in lost profits and led to empty shelves ...
Hosted on MSN

Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use

Software firm Horizon Quantum claimed it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore. The deployment also makes it the first quantum software company to deploy ...
Morningstar

Quantinuum Announces Commercial Launch of New Helios Quantum Computer that Offers Unprecedented Accuracy to Enable Generative Quantum AI (GenQAI)

Helios launches with customers Amgen, BMW Group, JPMorganChase, and SoftBank Corp. NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantinuum, the world leader in quantum computing, today announced the launch ...
MIT Technology Review

This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle

Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up. Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture—has ...
Futurism

Sora 2 Is Creating Ads for “Epstein Island” Children’s Toys

On an initial glance, a video that’s going viral on social media looks like a typical 1990s TV commercial for a children’s toy set of a tropical island: there are palm trees, a waterfall, and — wait a ...
Inc

Is There a Market for $10,000 Bespoke Computer Keyboards?

Ryan Norbauer makes computer keyboards. His least expensive model costs $3,600. Some go for $10,000 to $20,000. Customers for his brand, Norbauer & Co., happily wait more than a year to buy them. Most ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1990, a Levi’s Jeans Commercial Helped the Steve Miller Band Land a UK No. 1 With a 16-Year-Old Song

According to Udiscover Music, “The Joker” wasn’t the first song to get a boost from a Levi’s commercial. Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman” ...
Wall Street Journal

PsiQuantum Raises $1 Billion, Says Its Computer Will Be Ready in Two Years

PsiQuantum, which is targeting an aggressive 2027 timeline to deliver a full-scale commercial-grade quantum computer, said Wednesday that it collected $1 billion in its latest fundraise. The funding ...
TechCrunch

Brand new unicorn IQM sets its sights beyond Europe for its quantum computers

Finnish quantum computing startup IQM is now a unicorn: The company just raised more than $300 million in a Series B funding round that was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, a U.S. investment firm focused ...
Wired

The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the heated race between two companies to build a commercial brain-computer interface. Brain-computer interfaces might have inspired works of science ...