Technology

Some people check a wristwatch; others use a smartphone app or the position of the sun. But although these...

Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science suggests that negative capacitance helps sidestep a physical...

Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has “deindexed” adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages.The move, the company said, was in response to a campaign by Collective Shout (an advocacy...

“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana Caraiani, a mathematician at Imperial College London. “And in a case that you really thought was going to be...

After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer is trying to shift the narrative with a tongue-in-cheek video starring actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow.Paltrow was, of course,...

The most downloaded free app on Apple's App Store currently isn't ChatGPT, Threads or Google. It's Tea, a dating advice app that lets women review men they've gone out with, as well as warn other...

Neanderthals may not have been the hyper-carnivores we thought they were. It has been claimed, based on the nitrogen...

Intensive groundwater pumping, evaporation and melting due to rising global temperatures have shifted a growing amount of freshwater from...

The Internet Archive has received federal depository library status from California Sen. Alex Padilla, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public. Padilla made the designation in a...

Without Seizo Onoe, cellular phone networks would not be the source of global connectivity we know today. The IEEE life member was instrumental in driving the standardization for 3G and 4G mobile networks.The first-generation networks that launched in the...