Opinion: Why some “breakthrough” technologies don’t work out
HELIX Elvis Chipiro picked universal memory (from the 2005 list). The vision was for one memory tech to rule…
The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial…
Some of the things where I can see tangible evidence of my work is, for example, in the sleep cores and sleep…
AI companions: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
Chatbots are skilled at crafting sophisticated dialogue and mimicking empathetic behavior. They never get tired…
The man who made India digital isn’t done yet
It sounds almost wild-eyed. Yet the finternet project has 30 partners across four continents. Nilekani says…
LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
When a model is trained, each word in its vocabulary is assigned a numerical value that captures the meaning of…
The Download: War in Europe, and the company that wants to cool the planet
Last spring, 3,000 British soldiers deployed an invisible automated intelligence network, known as a “digital…
Deploying a hybrid approach to Web3 in the AI era
What was once a futuristic concept is quickly becoming a more concrete reality, even at a time when Web2…
What new legal challenges mean for the future of US offshore wind
Previous government reports, including one 2024 report from the Department of Energy and a 2025 report from the…
Europe TIC Market Outlook: Industry Trends, Regulations, and Future…
The Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) market in Europe stands as one of the most mature and…
The Download: The case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise
—Caiwei Chen If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness, I’d pick the…