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There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel in everything from large trucks to planes to steelmaking. It’s often hailed as a climate solution because when burned, it produces...
Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size realization. “They were...
Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger....
Trois chercheurs de l'université du Massachusetts à Amherst ont réussi à régler pour 3,19 dollars d'achats dans un supermarché avec une carte bancaire périmée ! Leur secret ? Glisser une app maison entre la carte et le terminal qui trafique la date d'expiration de la carte. En fait, leur montage...
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD...
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans have ever ventured from Earth, surpassing the distance set by Apollo 13 in 1972 by some 4,000 miles. While no space mission can live up to the historic...
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each...
Six chercheurs d'UC San Diego et d'Oberlin College ont présenté le 13 août dernier à l'USENIX Security Symposium de Baltimore un implant assez petit qui se branche sur un port de maintenance de la baie électronique d'un Boeing 737 et s'intercale ainsi entre le calculateur de vol et l'écran par...
The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and police abuse. Several changes aim directly...
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. How kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley McNamara, the founding editors of Anyway, an independent print magazine for...
When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways...
Depuis ce printemps, sachez qu'un git clone ordinaire peut maintenant récupérer un dépôt qui n'existe sur aucun serveur spécifique. En fait, le code est stocké dans Freenet, le réseau pair-à-pair qu'Ian Clarke a relancé en mars. Et comme y'a plus d'hébergeur, bah y'a plus personne pour fermer un...