TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Today’s stunning computing power is allowing us to move from human intelligence toward artificial intelligence. And as our machines gain more power, they’re becoming not just tools but decision-makers shaping our future.But with great power comes great…heat!As nanometer-scale transistors...

A recent article in Noema magazines explores the issues in "editing nature to fix our failures.""It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive," the article points out. "For about $2,000, I can go online and order...

“I always hated ankle braces, because a lot of the braces I tried before were really stiff and bulky,” Buzelis says. “BetterGuards are totally different. They really feel more like a sock when you’re wearing them … I can...

On Cloudflare's blog, a senior research engineer shares a plan for "improving the trustworthiness of JavaScript on the web.""It is as true today as it was in 2011 that Javascript cryptography is Considered Harmful."The main problem is code...

The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.In its first post, the new White House account uploaded a...

The mRNA covid-19 vaccines seem to have an unexpected benefit: extending the lives of people being treated for cancers...

A decentralized networking technology originally built for battlefields and Burning Man is today being reimagined from the ground up.Mesh networks—named for their fishnet-like connections—emerged over the past few decades from rigorous, mathematical research on keeping data flowing even when...

"A new study published on Monday found that communications from cellphone carriers, retailers, banks, and even militaries are being broadcast unencrypted through geostationary satellites..." reports Gizmodo. "The team obtained unencrypted internet communications from U.S. military sea vessels and...

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader trends, with human pageviews falling 8%...

Concrete accounts for about 8% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, notes CNN. But a research team at the University of Pennsylvania just used a robotic 3D printer to construct a bridge with "complex, lattice-like patterns" that...