This is a critical reading of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s article in the WSJ on Thursday, also entitled The Facts About Facebook. Yes Mark, you’re right;…
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You’d be forgiven for being cynical. I’ve been seeing foldable display concepts for as long as I’ve been attending tech trade shows (which, quite frankly,…
This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce…
It was a tough week. Journalists around the U.S. were hit hard by layoffs, from HuffPost to BuzzFeed News to Verizon Media Group, which owns…
A crowd has gathered on Juma, an island in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake. The local people are standing behind makeshift…
This is adapted from Christof Spieler’s Trains, Buses, People (Island Press, 2018). Like any public project, transit is political. Whether people support transit in general, or…
From pv magazine, January edition. Since emerging around 2013, anti-reflective (AR) coatings for PV glass have been able to quickly establish themselves as a surefire…
The spiral galaxy D100, on the far right of this Hubble Space Telescope image, is being stripped of its gas as it plunges toward the…
Electrify America, a Volkswagen subsidiary set up as part of the diesel emissions test settlement to develop a network of electric charging stations across the…
It’s a tough and thankless job, trying to replace the undisputed energy storage market leader. Yet that’s what dozens of companies have dedicated themselves to…
A Hubble image of an ultraluminous infrared galaxy in the relatively nearby universe. Astronomers studying ultraluminous galaxies in the remote, early universe have spotted one…
Faraday Grid is looking to go on an investment spree after bagging GBP £25 million (USD $32.5 million) from Adam Neumann, the co-founder of WeWork.…
It’s a new year. That means new projections for what the solar industry will look like in 2019. Last year was a weak one for…
Funding will get you a long way, but people, at the end of the day, are the key to a successful business. The Predictive Index,…
MIT researchers have developed a model that can assimilate multiple types of a patient’s health data to help doctors make decisions with incomplete information. The…
Federal agencies are set to reopen after lawmakers and President Trump reached an agreement to end the partial government shutdown, at least temporarily. Both chambers…
Tinder recently agreed to settle a $23 million class-action age discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed last April in California, alleged Tinder charged people over 30…
A line in a new court filing by the Department of Defense suggests that it might reopen investigation into a possible conflict of interest interest…
The Pentagon’s research arm is working to stop digital adversaries from tricking federal artificial intelligence systems into doing their bidding. Broadly speaking, machine learning tools…
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