Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging::The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue.
Unlike tablets supported by the Android OS, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows, the Librem 11 tablet runs PureBoot and PureOS offering the best security, privacy, and freedom respecting features that include:...
The company’s DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry....
Creating a Utopian City Is Harder Than Tech Billionaires Think::The man who created Sandy Springs, Georgia, has some advice for those who want to a build a metropolis in northern California.
Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
Pegasus is a highly sophisticated and controversial spyware tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. Pegasus is designed to infiltrate and infect mobile devices, including smartphones, and it allows the attacker to remotely monitor and collect a wide range of information from the compromised device. This...
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa – with a lot of water::As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an...
X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions::X decried law’s “draconian financial penalties” up to $15K per violation per day.
We refer to the exploit chain as BLASTPASS. The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim.
Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning ‘sprite’ exposes one of nature’s least understood phenomena::An astronomer in Slovakia captured the rare luminous phenomenon as it briefly flashed in Earth’s upper atmosphere during a thunderstorm.
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
In the year 2006, a time of burgeoning technological advancements, my life took an unexpected twist that led me down a path I could never have imagined. It all started when my boyfriend, Roy Schestowitz, came up with a daring plan to clone cell phone service and make free calls. His enthusiasm for the audacious idea was...
Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world”::undefined