In September, chip giant Intel gathered officials on a plot of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in… Read More »US is pouring money into chips, but even high spending has limits
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images In 2022, film buffs weary of two years of a raging pandemic cautiously began to dip their toes back into… Read More »Ars Technica’s Favorite Movies in 2022
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One more orbit around the sun and here we are again: back where we started but spinning—altered, perhaps deranged. Henry Segerman, a British-American mathematician and… Read More »A new puzzle turns the Earth into a Rubik’s cube, only more complex
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Enlarge / Northern lights over snow-capped mountains in Hangzhou, China. Liu Ming Sun/EyeEm/Getty Images There’s rarely time to write about every cool science story that… Read More »Ancient Chinese text reveals the earliest known mention of a candidate aurora
Photo illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Will future historians look back and declare 2022 the year when Donald Trump’s spell finally started to… Read More »Why Trump’s reign of Republican terror is really coming to an end
In other words, there’s going to be a lot of chatter about the metaverse and virtual (augmented, mixed, whatever-you-want-dorky-looking) goggles in 2023, but it still… Read More »The technology that will invade our lives in 2023
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Aurich Lawson | Getty Images As Elon Musk’s Category 5 tweet storm continues, the once-obscure social network Mastodon has been gaining more than 1,000 new… Read More »Mastodon – and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers
“Our job is to select, acquire, describe, make accessible and disseminate preserved knowledge,” Drabinski added. “That’s the whole project. So if technology changes the way… Read More »Librarians meet younger readers where they are: TikTok
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas as he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on… Read More »Ginni Thomas told the Jan. 6 committee that it was “laughable” for anyone who knew Clarence Thomas to believe she “could influence his jurisprudence”
Enlarge / The self-portrait of Webb’s mirrors also looks very sharp due to the improved alignment. How often does something work exactly as planned and… Read More »Where the news of 2022 was (mostly) good: The best science stories of the year
Former President Donald Trump, left, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, right, in a composite image.Getty Images Donald Trump requested that Jared Kushner trademark “Rigged Election!”… Read More »Donald Trump asked Jared Kushner if he could trademark the phrase “Rigged Election,” according to the Jan. 6 interview transcript
What to keep I noticed a philosophical division among the archivists I spoke to. Digital archivists were determined to preserve everything with the mindset that… Read More »Your memories. Their cloud. – The New York Times
