Technology

Bhutan’s Third International Internet Gateway aims for early 2027 launch, sparking long-term hopes for affordability

As Bhutan doubles down on securing its digital future against potential blackouts and single-route vulnerabilities, the much-anticipated Third International Internet Gateway (3IIG) project is navigating regulatory checks with an eye toward…

American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has…

China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.

China’s AI race has a new constraint, and it is not chips. The country is running out of high-quality Chinese-language training data. While US export controls on advanced semiconductors have dominated the debate over China’s AI…

Bhutan must get this right the first time

Bhutan may have just received one of the most important pieces of economic news in its modern history. If the ongoing ground validation confirms the airborne survey findings, we could possess significant deposits of tungsten, copper and…

The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today

My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750 right now.

Elon Musk says these jobs may vanish while others survive the AI age

The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

Sometime next week, NASA's newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, will traverse beyond 45.16 km…

Dispute over AUD 261,000 fund for Community Center in Perth comes online

A TikTok post by Kalu Rinpoche on Thursday, accusing a Bhutanese couple in Australia of not handing over AUD 261,000 in funds for setting up a Community Center in Perth, went viral and drew a lot of strong reactions online. The accusation…

'You'll own nothing and you'll like it'

A Google user has had the LOTR movies pulled from their account Licensing changes are the most likely reason It's another argument for physical media — or for piracy We've seen multiple incidents over the years where users have had movies…

Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out

We're looking forward to Big Walk, ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs, Pigeon: A Love Story and several others this week.

Drone enters Bulgaria, explodes near pipeline at Romanian border: Bulgarian PM

The drone carried a “significant” amount of explosives, said Bulgarian PM Rumen Radev.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by…