Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals. One of the regulations that make vehicles in the US different from those in Europe or Japan is our headlight rules. They’re laid out in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), and changing them is—or used to…
Hamilton also coined the term “software engineering” and founded two successful software companies. Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient of the Presidential…
Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February. Let’s Encrypt is continuing a push toward tighter security by reducing free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 64 days, starting February 10, 2027. For administrators already implementing modern ACME clients that support ARI (ACME Renewal Information), the…
Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light. Writing about quantum entanglement is always a challenge. There are so many clichés to avoid: It’s mysterious, ghostly, spooky, and weird. Entanglement is none of those things, and yet it is also all of…
Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is. For the last 15 years, you’ve been able to buy a Fire tablet from Amazon. Which Fire tablet? It doesn’t matter—like Kindles, they have been pretty much the same year to year. The company’s new tablet lineup is a…
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop. In its first live event in two years, Microsoft today announced its newest Surface laptop, outlined a host of changes coming to Windows 11, and shared a vision of how local-AI and agentic workflows could…
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life. Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50-50 mix of the left- and right-handed forms of a…
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs. Does it feel like people are perhaps a little grumpier or more on edge these days? It’s not like it’s without reason. There are wars. The climate is going haywire. Someone just died of…
Trump’s aggressive reshoring push could cost tech firms $230 billion, CTA estimates. One of Donald Trump’s biggest goals as president is to increase domestic manufacturing and reshore supply chains so that the most in-demand technologies in the world can be 100 percent made in the United States. By executive…
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups. There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco and, to a lesser…
