‘Inside the Silicon Valley Push to Breed Super-Babies’
A San Francisco startup, Orchid Health, is at the forefront of embryo screening aimed at precluding future diseases. They employ a unique technique that asserts the ability to sequence an…
Why IBM’s Amazing ‘Sliding Keyboard’ ThinkPad 701 Never Survived Past 1995
Summary The article discusses IBM’s famous ThinkPad 701, known for its innovative ‘butterfly’ keyboard that expanded from 9.7 to 11.5 inches. Despite being revolutionary in providing full-size keys in a…
Vintage computing boffin releases expansive Intel 286 test suite
Summary The developer of MartyPC, an emulator for vintage Intel-compatible hardware, has released a test suite for Intel’s 80286 processor. This suite was painstakingly created by analyzing a physical chip…
Kill Russian Soldiers, Win Points: Is Ukraine’s New Drone Scheme Gamifying War?
Ukraine’s innovative use of drones has introduced a points-based system for military operations. Dubbed the ‘Army of Drones: Bonus’, this same approach rewards soldiers for each enemy soldier or piece…
‘Fossil’ Discovered Beyond Pluto Implies ‘Something Dramatic’ Happened 400M Years Ago
Astronomers have recently discovered a celestial body beyond Pluto, called 2023 KQ14, which suggests a dramatic event occurred in the solar system 400 million years after its formation. This object,…
T-Mobile is Bringing Low-Latency Tech To 5G For the First Time
T-Mobile is Bringing Low-Latency Tech To 5G For the First Time T-Mobile is expanding support for the L4S standard across its 5G Advanced network over the next few weeks, becoming…
Debian 13.0 To Begin Supporting RISC-V as an Official CPU Architecture
Summary Debian 13.0 is set to officially recognise RISC-V as a CPU architecture for the first time, enhancing support for this rising technology. Although the release is coming on 9…
Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed a new class of baryonic antimatter particles that decay at different rates than their matter counterparts. This phenomenon, known as charge…
Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory
Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory has made an exciting discovery with the identification of a small celestial body, named…
Why IBM’s Amazing ‘Sliding Keyboard’ ThinkPad 701 Never Survived Past 1995
Summary This article explores the intriguing story behind IBM’s ThinkPad 701, known for its unique expanding “butterfly” keyboard. While it provided a solution to fitting a full-sized keyboard into a…