It seems as though everyone is talking about electric vehicle batteries lately. Automakers are racing to make these batteries more powerful so they can convince more people to buy EVs, and the Biden administration is spending billions to make the…
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Reddit volunteers are helping people who need abortionsThis offers a glimpse into what a post-Roe era might look like. (WP $)+ Silicon Valley is…
The version used in Maryland came from a pig with 10 gene modifications developed by Revivicor, a subsidiary of United Therapeutics. Following promising tests of such pig organs in baboons, three US transplant teams launched the first human studies starting…
You’ve never heard of him, but Mike was one of Twitter’s best-case scenarios. Mike — a high school teacher in Ontario, Canada, who has asked me not to use his last name — signed up for Twitter in 2007, shortly…
The absence of feeling remains an issue in VR but there is some innovation, like the Tesla suit – a kind of wetsuit packed with sensors designed to trigger sensations on the skin, such as the feeling of rain, or…
Getty Images reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story Hardware and software makers are scrambling to determine if their wares suffer from a critical vulnerability recently discovered in third-party code libraries used by hundreds of vendors, including…
Pineau helped change how research is published in several of the largest conferences, introducing a checklist of things that researchers must submit alongside their results, including code and details about how experiments are run. Since she joined Meta (then Facebook)…
reader comments 73 with 45 posters participating Share this story It’s not the kind of security discovery that happens often. A previously unknown hacker group used a novel backdoor, top-notch tradecraft, and software engineering to create an espionage botnet that…
A month after a new union started by Amazon warehouse workers became the first to win a US election in the company’s history, workers at a nearby Amazon facility voted against unionizing with the same grassroots organization. Workers at an…