This article from IEEE Spectrum discusses the CRASH Clock, a warning system that predicts the time before a catastrophic satellite collision in low Earth orbit

Musk's AI startup xAI reported a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, up from $1 billion in the previous quarter, according to a Bloomberg News report

The feature creep is industry-wide

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code

Windows 11 performte am schlechtesten, egal welcher Benchmark durchgeführt wurde

A study from University College Cork reveals that AI-generated writing, despite being polished and fluent, displays distinct stylistic patterns that set it apart from human prose. Using literary stylometry, researchers found that AI systems like GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Lama 70B produce uniform styles, while human authors show greater stylistic range and individuality

The most outlandish tech CEO quotes from 2025

Tech CEOs have been nuttier than ever

Search over 3 million screencaps from The Simpsons with Frinkiac

NASA's OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu have revealed bio-essential sugars

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds

by University of Leicester

Ambience Antarctica is an Internet radio station inspired by Antarctica, with ambient music accompanied by visuals from Earth's least-populous continent. Features almost-live webcams and satellite imagery, weather forecasts, flyby videos, a daily quote, and occasional wildlife to spot

At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.

To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements: It must be an actual site that contains a reasonable amount of information, not just a couple of links on a page; Your total UNCOMPRESSED web resources must not exceed 512KB

superfan has recreated Frodo’s exact journey from Bag End to Mount Doom in a 10-hour virtual trek through Lord of the Rings Online, an 18-year-old MMO.

Despite Boromir’s iconic warning, it turns out you can, in fact, simply walk into Mordor

A "Keep Android Open" campaign is pushing back on new rules from Google that will reportedly block users from sideloading apps on Android phones

study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked

This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)

Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

World’s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s

Capitals from London to Tokyo need urgent action to protect people from deadly high temperatures, analysts say