Humans are racing to harness the ocean’s vast potential to power global economic growth. Worldwide, ocean-based industries such as fishing, shipping, and energy production generate at least U.S.$1.5 trillion in economic activity each year and support 31 million jobs. This value has been increasing exponentially over the past 50 years and is expected to double by 2030.
Transparency in monitoring this “blue acceleration” is crucial to prev
It’s been a rough two years for the bitcoiners. Most of the news from Crypto Land had the odor of fraud, scams, meltdowns, price crashes, and villains, such as Sam Bankman-Fried. NFTs fizzled. The “metaverse” became a punchline. AI stole the spotlight.
But quietly, without much hype, Bitcoin has once again emerged from the dead. “In terms of price, [2023 was] an absolutely fucking remarkable year for Bitcoin,” says investor Meltem Demirors, as the
You might think a biotech company that created a new vaccine, using novel tech like mRNA-based therapeutics, in record time to help the world fight a historic pandemic like COVID-19 would still be flying high. That hasn’t been the case so far for Moderna, whose only FDA-approved product to date remains its COVID vaccine Spikevax and its various forms for teens and children. But a new analyst report from Oppenheimer released this week asserts the company’s pipeline of mRNA-based
The term “artificial intelligence” is likely to have stiff competition this year when it comes to being the buzziest phrase in tech. That’s because Apple is expected to launch its Vision Pro mixed reality headset, and simultaneously, Apple hopes, bring the words “spatial computing” into the mainstream.
Here’s what you need to know about this new frontier in tech and how businesses may use it.
What is spatial computing?
While Peloton has garnered a lot of attention and a bit of a stock pop this week with its TikTok deal, the buzz has not been strong enough to drown out the pronounced vocal outrage among Peloton app users about a dramatic change the company implemented last month.
Starting on December 5, Peloton introduced two new membership options to replace legacy subscribers’ existing $12.99 per month version. Members like myself could either stick with what is now called Peloton App One
The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game—by breaking it.
Technically, Willis—aka “blue scuti” in the gaming world—made it to what gamers call a “kill screen,” a point where the Tetris code glitches, crashing the game. That might not sound like much of a victory to anyone thinking that
China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan, and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap.
Now two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in the game, more than five decades after the Apollo program ended.
It’s part of a NASA-supported effort to kick-start commercial moon deliveries, as the space agency focuses on getting astronauts back there.
“They’re scouts going to the moon ahead of us,” said NASA Administ
BEIJING (AP) — Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million Model S, X, 3 and Y electric vehicles exported to China for problems with their automatic assisted steering and door latch controls.
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation announced the recall on Friday. It said Tesla Motors in Beijing and Shanghai would use remote upgrades to fix the problems, so in most cases car owners would not need to visit Tesla service centers.
The recall due to proble
Pick up a computer keyboard from the 1990s and it’ll look practically the same as a brand-new, 2024 edition laptop or desktop keyboard does today. The configuration, layout, and number of keys is largely similar as it always has been.
But that’s soon set to change.
This week Microsoft announced “the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades.” The Copilot key will be added to new Windows 11 PCs in the coming week
The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests over the past few decades.
What set Jan. 6 apart was the president of the United States using his cellphone to direct an attack on the Capitol, and those who stormed the Capitol being wired and ready for insurrection.
My co-authors and I, a media and disinformation scholar, call this networked incitement: influential figures incit