Satya Nadella hails Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough, says 'a million-qubit processor is within reach'
The company claims this advancement will enable practical quantum computing within years, not decades, challenging previous industry projections.
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Students are doubling as cheap labor for Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
Student-interns are paid for low-skill factory tasks and spend little time in the classroom.
Syria just hosted its first international tech conference in 50 years
Syrian-American entrepreneurs and investors hope to facilitate 25,000 new tech jobs in the country by 2030.
The Appistocracy Inaugurates Trump
A new breed of elite flexes its muscle
Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy technologies made up more than 10% of China’s economy in 2024 for the first...
Captured content: Climeworks inks carbon removal deal with TikTok
Carbon capture firm inks latest CO2 removal deals with social media giant TikTok and British rum maker Two Drifters
Airbus 'suspends' ZEROe hydrogen aircraft programme on the back of technology delays: report
French airplane designer had originally planned to introduce commercial H2-powered model by 2035
AI chatbot launches on Gov.UK to help business users – with mixed results
Initial test run of GPT-4o technology can help with regulations but ‘cannot provide predictions or opinions’
Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems
Chinese hackers were in networks of major ISPs “for months,” WSJ reports.
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Sonos opens a Trello board so we can see how it’s fixing the busted app
The board is a “live document” that Sonos will update.
Form Energy raises $405M for its 100-hour iron-air batteries
The long-duration energy storage startup has raised a total of $1.2 billion. Form is expanding its West Virginia factory and working on its first…
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Digital Divinity
Ancient traditions meet modern technology.
Samsung Unveils Solid-State Batteries with 20-Year Lifespan and 9-Minute Charging Time
Samsung has unveiled a new solid-state battery with 20-year lifespan, 600-mile range, and 9-minute charging time.
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The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon
If the FarView radio telescope is built, it would double as a demonstration of two unprecedented activities: mining and manufacturing in space.
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Northern Lights, the First Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Norway
All about the Northern Lights project, designed to offer European industrial companies a solution for safely and permanently storing their CO2 emissions under the seabed.
China’s biggest AI model is challenging American dominance
Alibaba’s Qwen has been shining on benchmark tests, despite chip restrictions.
Sonos opens a Trello board so we can see how it’s fixing the busted app
The board is a “live document” that Sonos will update.
A new law in California protects consumers’ brain data. Some think it doesn’t go far enough.
Tech companies collect brain data that could be used to infer our thoughts—so it’s vital we get legal protections right.
A Standing Peoples’ Assembly For Europe | NOEMA
An innovation aimed at empowering the body politic and closing the democratic deficit.
AI Makes Effective Solar Cells—And Explains the Results
Together, two models optimized organic light-harvesting molecules
Gathering Lamp - Normal Phenomena of Life
Open source maintainers underpaid and going gray
AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot's work
Equatic Unveils Oxygen-Selective Anodes, Unlocking Gigaton-Scale Carbon Removal and Green Hydrogen Generation With Seawater Electrolysis
With funding from ARPA-E, the U.S.-manufactured OSAs will make combined carbon removal and clean hydrogen production more scalable, sustainable, and...
Wind and solar have risen to ‘new highs’ in the EU overtaking fossil fuels for the first time ever | Euronews
Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said the EU is now “well equipped” to meet climate neutrality goals.
World’s largest heat pump to warm 30,000 homes in Finland
World's largest heat pump powered by renewable energy will help Helsinki meet its heating demands while reducing carbon emissions.
Nth Cycle Begins Operations of First Domestic Commercial-Scale Nickel and Cobalt Scrap Refining System in Fairfield, Ohio
/PRNewswire/ -- Nth Cycle, the globally recognized critical metal refining company, has made history as the first company in the United States to produce...
BMW to launch hydrogen cars in 2028
The move is part of the German brand's partnership with Toyota and is a "milestone in automotive history"