Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones Summary The next‑generation Acela trains have launched on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. They offer a smoother ride, refreshed…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, together with University of Florida researchers, deployed about 120 retrofitted toy rabbits in…
Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a simple method to make succulents emit a soft glow by injecting an afterglow phosphor…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s rollout of AI voice assistants at the drive-thru has been hit by glitches and deliberate…
China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6 Summary KylinSoft has released KylinOS 11, built on the Linux kernel 6.6. The new release targets both…
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build Summary China has begun operation of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment (JUNO), a large-scale neutrino detector built over…
Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync Summary A reader known as “Kim” was asked to investigate an air-gapped lab where servers had…
Cloud computing has become so normal, it’s invisible Summary Timothy Prickett Morgan argues that cloud computing has moved from a buzzword to the default way organisations consume IT. He traces…
How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that the old Wintel supercontinent is fragmenting: Intel has lost leadership, alternative architectures (ARM, AMD…
UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds Summary Datacentre developers in the UK are increasingly planning to generate electricity on-site using natural gas…
