TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email...

While most magnets have two poles (north and south, or positive and negative), recent advances in quantum mechanics have revealed an "octupolar order," writes Phys.org, where a pattern of particles in a crystalline structure "behaves as if it...

Spaceflight Now reports:"A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Florida Thursday night on a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, America's spy satellite agency... The NRO has previously flown payloads on 22 Falcon 9 rockets...

If you have ever lifted the lid of a trash bin on a hot day, you know the smell I am talking about. One of the culprits behind that sour, vinegary stench is acetic acid, which builds up as...

Comparing Our Favorite E-ReadersHonorable MentionsBelow, find a few more e-readers I like but don't necessarily love as much as my top picks.Boox Go 7 ($270) and Boox Go Color 7 ($290): Boox is known for its wide range of...

Keeping an eye on remote waters is harder than it sounds. Boats take ages to get there, and aircraft can’t stick around long enough to be useful. As reported by TechXplore, researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and...

Longtime Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis shares a report from NPR: Google just put a refrigerator-sized satellite into space, part of a research project the company hopes can pave the way for orbiting AI data centers powered by the...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Multilingual markets contain users whose needs are poorly served by English-first AI products. Capturing this opportunity requires treating localized AI as a core engineering and product discipline.Audit your token economics to...

MIT formally dedicated its newly transformed Met Warehouse (Building W41) on Wednesday, in an energetic evening ceremony heralding the start of a new era for the practice of design on campus. The ceremony highlighted “the essential vision of the Met:...

As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to improve people’s lives. Her parents were Taiwanese immigrants, and her father had a long commute to his job, which...