Technology
These Mobile Games Are for the Birds
Parrots have much in common with toddlers. The brainy birds can learn to recognize colors and shapes, manipulate objects, build large vocabularies and make their needs known at improbably high volumes. They are also playful, intelligent and curious; without...
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Supercomputing’s Future Is Green and Interconnected
While the
Top500 list ranks the 500 biggest high-performance computers (HPCs) in the world, its cousin the Green500 re-ranks the same 500 supercomputers according to their energy efficiency. For the last three iterations of the list, Henri—a small supercomputer...
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The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair...
Gadgets
Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends: Lessons From Roku
This month, many of the 80 million owners of Roku devices, including streaming sticks, set-top boxes and internet-connected TVs running the company’s streaming software, turned on their Rokus to see a block of text. I, the owner of a...
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Physicist Claims Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is Twice As Old As We Thought – Slashdot
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schwit1 shares a report from ScienceAlert: Sound waves fossilized in the maps of galaxies across the Universe could be interpreted as signs of a Big Bang that took place 13 billion years earlier than current models suggest. Last...
Technology
Exploding Chips, Meta’s AR Hardware, and More
Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrumpodcast where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. I’m your host Stephen Cass, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. And before we start, I just...
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Kate Middleton, Britney Spears and the Online Trolls Doubting Their Existence
Kate Middleton has long been a magnet for unproven rumors: She pressured an art gallery to remove a royal portrait! She split from her husband! She changed her hairstyle to distract from pregnancy rumors! She did not give birth...
Technology
The World Needs to Crack Battery Recycling, Fast
Europe is slowly catching up, both in terms of battery production and recycling, with car manufacturers leading the charge to reclaim the valuable materials.The IEA forecasts that recycling could meet up to 12 percent of the EV industry’s demand...
Technology
Microsoft hires ex-DeepMind co-founder to lead Copilot AI initiatives
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, a former co-founder of DeepMind, the AI startup acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman will assume the role of executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, directly reporting to...
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"Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over...