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Powering up (and saving) the planet

Powering up (and saving) the planet

Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite young, perhaps in first grade,” she says. “But I remember we weren’t allowed to turn our sprinklers on. And everyone in the neighborhood was given disinfectant...

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone Laboratories—John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain—built a compact electronic device using thin gold wires and a piece of germanium, a material known as a semiconductor. Their invention, later named the transistor (for which they...

The Download: unnerving AI avatars, and Trump’s climate gift to China

The Download: unnerving AI avatars, and Trump’s climate gift to China

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. Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back. —Rhiannon Williams Earlier this summer, I visited the AI...

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy 

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy 

On a spring day in 1954, Bell Labs researchers showed off the first practical solar panels at a press conference in Murray Hill, New Jersey, using sunlight to spin a toy Ferris wheel before a stunned crowd. The solar future looked bright. But in the race to commercialize the technology it invented,...

Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson - Les vrais héros d'Unix

Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson - Les vrais héros d'Unix

Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Vous savez qu’Unix n’aurait jamais dû exister ? Hé oui, tout a commencé parce que Ken Thompson voulait jouer à Space Travel, son petit jeu vidéo. Sauf que sur le mainframe de Bell Labs, chaque partie lui...