The GPU Shortage Deepened My Existential Dread
My preteen son’s laptop had been warning us for months that it was ready to quit forever. The battery had stopped charging properly, the hinge...
A Brief History of Transformers (Not the Robot Kind)
I have always disliked exaggerated claims of imminent scientific and technical breakthroughs, such as inexpensive fusion, cheap supersonic travel, and the terraforming of other planets....
What If Gravity Is Actually a Double Copy of Other Forces?
As far as physicists have been able to determine, nature speaks two mutually unintelligible languages: one for gravity and one for everything else. Curves in...
The Yankees Covid Outbreak May Be Bad News for Ditching Masks
Eight people who work for the New York Yankees baseball team, including a player, have tested positive for Covid-19—and all of them were vaccinated against...
The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism
After weeks of immense pressure, the Biden administration came out in support of waiving intellectual property rights to coronavirus vaccines. Shortly after the Biden announcement...
In Apple’s War On Developers, Users Are the Biggest Losers
Apple and Google representatives recently found themselves in front of a Senate antitrust hearing about their app store practices. Apple in particular came under fire,...
There’s a Great Whip Spider Boom. What Gives?
Amblypygids became his version of Colla’s caves. It was hard to find a lab at first. Once he did, though, he became a prolific contributor...
Apple World’s Full Scope Is Coming Into Focus
The next version of the iPhone’s operating system will be available in the coming weeks, and per usual, Apple is promising that it will deliver...
What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There?
This new system, which continually monitors and collects patient data, has recently gone wireless. It is being tested on patients in a hospital in Birmingham,...
Prime Day 2021: 23 Best Early Deals and Shopping Tips
It's been six years since Amazon's first Prime Day shopping extravaganza, and contrary to the initial naysayers, the event is now so big that Amazon...