I know a man in Bangalore who still writes code by hand. He opens a blank file, types every character himself, rejects autocomplete, and laughs when…
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The proposed regulations were adopted quietly, which is noteworthy in and of itself. In the days following a shooting near the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a…
When someone else completes the task you were meant to complete first, there’s a certain kind of quiet humiliation that permeates the conference room. Someone is…
The science at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory isn’t the first thing you notice. It’s the quiet. The only sound produced by a 350-ton machine spinning…
It began as a controlled collision and evolved into something more bizarre. The idea behind NASA’s late September 2022 launch of a tiny spacecraft the size…
These days, you can hear the same anxious chuckles around the coffee stations in any San Francisco conference room. There, half of the population is certain…
Sitting in front of a 240Hz OLED panel has the drawback that you eventually lose awareness of its speed. Your eyes adapt. Six months later, what…
Your apartment’s thermostat doesn’t really give a damn if you’re trying to lose weight. However, it turns out that your body has its own thermostat, and…
Capital cities that previously relied on the private sector for technology are exhibiting an odd new trend. All of these cities—Paris, Tokyo, Delhi, Bern, Kuala Lumpur,…
President Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, and Vladimir Putin watched Chinese drones fly autonomously alongside fighter jets during a military parade in Beijing last September. Naturally, military…