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Brain-computer interface trials are taking off

Brain-computer interface trials are taking off

This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first power user” of a brain implant, according to the researchers who worked with him. Harrell is paralyzed and unable to speak coherently without the device. He has now spent almost three years using a brain-computer...

The inevitable weakness of metrics

The inevitable weakness of metrics

There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate this duality, which probably reveals something about both me and the nature of measurement. Like a...

The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar

The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading...

The search for dark matter has been blown wide open

The search for dark matter has been blown wide open

Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot. Isolated deep beneath these rocky shields, massive detectors filled with liquid xenon aim to make the first direct detections of dark matter, the...

The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception

The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Hacking the atmosphere: geoengineering gets a reality check Solar geoengineering, the controversial idea that we could deliberately intervene in the...

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-­looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fuselage. The uncrewed plane is soaring thousands of meters higher than commercial jets fly—so high you...

The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession

The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This man with ALS is the first “power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain...

Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in moments of stress: They made tea. That wave of electric kettles clicking on, however, caused a different...

This man with ALS is “the first power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak

Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost three years. Harrell, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is paralyzed, first used his brain-computer interface (BCI) to “speak” sentences with the help of a research team in 2023. Since then, Harrell has clocked...

AmigaOS 4.1 : mise à jour du SDK

AmigaOS 4.1 : mise à jour du SDK

Hyperion Entertainement annonce une mise à jour du SDK d'AmigaOS 4.1. Cette version propose :- GCC 11.5- évolution des différents SDK : AmigaDOS, ExecSG, newlib, Roadshow, AmiSSL et MUI- mise à jour d'AutoDocs et AutoDocViewer.Le SDK 53.30 déprécie les fonctionnalités et API qui ne sont plus...

The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer

The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These new solid-state ACs promise a cool future. Scientists aren’t so sure. After three years of record-­breaking heat and another scorcher underway,...

Linux 7.1 est disponible : améliorations un peu partout, nouvelle implémentation NTFS

Linux 7.1 est disponible : améliorations un peu partout, nouvelle implémentation NTFS

Suite aux critiques de Linus sur la multiplication des codes et documentations générés par l'IA, Linux 7.1 est désormais disponible. Cette version introduit une nouvelle implémentation de NTFS plus complète et des performances en hausse. Le noyau introduit aussi un nouveau droit d'accès Landlock,...