PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The site will eventually hold tens of thousands of photonic quantu…
The sun supports all life on Earth. But its ‘solar tsunamis’ threaten our electricity infrastructure. Discover how New Zealand is preparing for extreme solar storms
A rescue cat named Moustache helped hundreds of senior dogs get adopted from Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in California by “testing” them for cat friendliness.
The US government has just become a shareholder in an AI startup, in exchange for a bet that artificial intelligence can break China’s hold on the materials inside every chip factory. The Department of Commerce has awarded SandboxAQ $500mn under the CH…
Neuralink has dominated the brain-chip story for two years. It now has a serious challenger with a patient of its own. Paradromics, an Austin neurotech firm, has implanted its Connexus brain-computer interface in the first participant of its FDA-approv…
Jeff Bezos appears to have settled on his AI thesis, and it is not chatbots. It is the physical world. CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, is in talks to raise about $400mn at a $2.6bn valuation, the Financial…
Jackery is jumping on the fridge-battery trend with what it says is the “world’s slimmest.” FridgeGuard also looks nice; a break from power stations that tend to look more at home at a job site than the kitchen or living room. Measuring just 2.63 inches (67mm) thick, the Jackery FridgeGuard power station is meant to […]
Why did evolution produce a spider the size of a dinner plate? The Goliath birdeater offers a fascinating glimpse into life on the Amazon forest floor.
We think our self-confidence is a cumulative reflection of our achievements, when it’s actually a reflection of how often we default to our habit of self-abandonment.
Potential Tropical Cyclone One, off the Texas and Louisiana coast, is on the brink of becoming the first named storm of the season. Will it make it?