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.”…
Microsoft has locked down well-documented workarounds in recent test builds. Of the many minor to medium-size annoyances that come with a modern Windows 11 installation, the requirement that you sign in with a Microsoft account is one of the most irritating. Sure, all operating systems (including Apple’s and Google’s)…
New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the…
Qualcomm claims Arduino will keep its own branding and “open source ethos.” Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its announcement, Qualcomm said that Arduino would “…
The first app store changes are due in a few weeks, with the major changes coming next summer. Changes are coming to the Play Store in spite of a concerted effort from Google to maintain the status quo. The company asked the US Supreme Court to freeze parts of…
Apple had removed many of the iPad’s old multitasking modes in the new update. We’re generally fans of the new windowed multitasking features in iPadOS 26—for people who want to use their iPads more like traditional laptops, the new system is more powerful, flexible, and predictable than the old…
A standard optical illusion triggers specific neurons in the visual system of mice. “Illusions are fun, but they are also a gateway to perception,” says Hyeyoung Shin, assistant professor of neuroscience at Seoul National University. Shin is the first author of a new study in Nature Neuroscience that has…
Intra-teammate relationships began to fray under the lights at this night race. Few modern F1 venues are as dazzling as the Marina Bay circuit in Singapore. If you watch the early practice or the young women of F1 Academy in their races, you’ll get an idea of the street…
