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1 week ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

Recently, four British men used xenon gas to climb Mount Everest in a record-breaking timeline, as noted by The New York Times in They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering? The group travelled from London to the summit and back in less than a week, an absurdly short duration. Most Everest climbers have to spend weeks acclimating to higher altitudes in multiple steps.

2 weeks ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

Throughout human history, physical deformities have been a source of both emotional and physical hardship. During the worst of times, between 1939 and 1945, a visible deformity could have you killed. Nazi Germany’s euthanasia program, which targeted disabled people—including those with visible deformities — is estimated to have killed 275,000 people through starvation, lethal injection, or gas chambers.

1 month ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

Cadence, the company best known for making software to design chips, has got into the business of making whole computers — in a big way. At CadenceLIVE 2025, held on May 7, 2025, in San Jose, California, the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) company introduced the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, establishing a new high-end offering within the company’s Millennium Enterprise products.

1 month ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

Onshape has rolled out what may be the biggest use of AI in a CAD program to date, rolling past the industry leaders. Leave it to the spunky upstart to upstage established CAD vendors. It’s as if Onshape is saying “innovation still matters” to to those who say CAD is a done deal, a mature product, that there are only slight improvements to be had. In that regard, what Onshape has done is a big deal. But if you’ve got AI fever, let’s first lower the temperature.

1 month ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

While all organizations are bent on preserving and securing their intellectual property, none may be more protective of their data than the U.S. military. It’s no wonder military personnel or defense contractors are not permitted to use the same cloud services as businesses and the public.