Elon Musk hopes China will chill out

YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips

Enlarge / A Google Argos VCU. It transcodes video very quickly. (credit: Google) Google has decided that YouTube is such a huge transcoding workload that it needs to build its own server chips. The company detailed its new “Argos” chips in a YouTube blog post, a CNET interview, and in a paper for ASPLOS, the Architectural Support […]

Only a third of Americans plan to vote in person on Election Day

With just over two weeks to go until Election Day, voter enthusiasm is the highest it’s been in the past three presidential elections—but the majority of Americans won’t turn up to the polls on Nov. 3. With the coronavirus pandemic still raging across parts of the country, just one-third of Americans (33%) plan to vote […]

Venture capital firms set aside $1 billion for women-led startups. Here’s how it’s going

Women have struggled to raise the funds that their male peers have enjoyed. But that tide is shifting. Read More