DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn Summary The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under its…
How Paris dealt with lightning in the Age of Enlightenment Summary This short News & Views piece is a retrospective look at the emergence and use of “para-tonnerres” (early lightning…
Organs on chips could make biomedical research more equitable Summary Andrea C. del Valle (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala) argues that organ-on-a-chip (OoC) technology — microfluidic platforms that culture cells…
Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ arrives: x86-32 and MIPS out, RISC-V in Summary Debian 13, codenamed Trixie, is released with 64-bit RISC-V support added and several older ports removed — notably x86-32…
Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants Summary Private cloud vendor Platform9 has updated its vJailbreak tool in its Private Cloud Director offering so organisations can migrate away from…
Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features Summary Java 25 has reached release candidate status (first of two RCs) with general availability scheduled for…
Google Will Now Let You Pick Your Top Sources For Search Results Summary Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the US and India that lets…
Google and IBM Believe First Workable Quantum Computer is in Sight Summary Google and IBM say they can build industrial-scale quantum machines with one million or more physical qubits by…
Cornell Researchers Develop Invisible Light-Based Watermark To Detect Deepfakes Summary Cornell researchers have unveiled “noise-coded illumination”: an invisible, light-based watermarking system that embeds secret codes into the lighting used when…
DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn Summary The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has set…
