“Damage is being done already. Even if funding is reinstated, we have already lost people.” NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to…
Central bank says market concentration hasn’t been this extreme in 50 years. AI bubble talk is in the air, and among the chorus of voices warning of an AI-fueled market bubble (which includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos) is the Bank of England, which warned on…
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else. Salesforce says it’s refusing to pay an extortion demand made by a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen roughly 1 billion records from dozens of Salesforce customers. The threat group making the demands began their campaign in…
Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years. In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15. In August of 2016, Logitech launched Pop switches, which provide quick access to a range…
Google delivers another phone that is slightly better than its predecessor—is that enough? When the first foldable phones came along, they seemed like a cool evolution of the traditional smartphone form factor and, if they got smaller and cheaper, like something people might actually want. After more than five…
Policy change affects at least 2025 model Plus, Value, and J-series DiskStations. If you were considering the purchase of a Synology NAS but were leery of the unreasonably high cost of populating it with special Synology-branded hard disk drives, you can breathe a little easier today. In a press…
Three researchers share prize for structured polymers called metal-organic frameworks. The polymers around us are basically a disordered mess, with long chains of atoms tangled around each other. But starting around 1990, chemists began developing techniques that allow us to build polymers with precisely defined structures. These polymers, called…
Yes, it’s another potential qubit. But it’s also some very cool physics. By now, a handful of technologies are leading contenders for producing a useful quantum computer. Companies have used them to build machines with dozens to hundreds of qubits, the error rates are coming down, and they’ve largely…
A smaller battery and less standard equipment cuts prices, but not by enough. Today, Tesla announced a new variant of the Model Y crossover for North America. Tesla fans have long-awaited a cheaper entry-level model; this was supposed to be the $25,000 Model 2. But the development of that…
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical circuit.”…
