Technology

April is said to be the cruellest month, as the poem goes, “mixing memory with desire”. And this is...

It’s easy to assume that Robert Woo was defined by the accident that took away his ability to walk.Certainly, the day of his accident—14 December 2007—was a turning point. Woo, an architect working on the new Goldman Sachs headquarters...

Typing on a virtual keyboard floating in mid-air sounds cool until your arms give out. That’s the reality of many AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality ) headsets today. You’re either fumbling with handheld controllers or holding your...

An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour.In Wuhan, a city...

Evidence is mounting that long covid can be caused by the immune system attacking the body. The results of...

A new speed record has been set for data transmission through an existing, commercially-installed fibre optic cable, with 450...

As a kid, I loved the 1980s aquatic adventure show Danger Bay. True to the TV show’s name, danger was always lurking at the Vancouver Aquarium, where the show was set. In one memorable episode, young Jonah and a...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo say a new "quadratic quantum gravity" framework could explain the universe's rapid early expansion without adding extra ingredients to Einstein's theory by hand. The idea is especially notable because it makes testable...

We’ve all absorbed the message by now: olive oil is good for us. It lowers “bad cholesterol”, fights inflammation...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues saw that the amount of energy needed to run a data centre had been steadily increasing of late...