Measuring the mobile bodyEurope’s high-tech arsenal of border technologies is often narrated as a futuristic tale of light, speed and computing power.
How the Internet Was InventedIn 40 years, the internet has morphed from a military communication network into a vast global cyberspace. And it all started in a California beer garden.
How thermal batteries are heating up energy storageWe need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a whopping 20% of global energy demand goes to producing heat used in industry, and most of that heat is generated by burning fossil fuels.
5 ChatGPT Productivity Prompts (Cut Your Workload In Half)What if you could achieve the same outcome in half the time? Then you’d have choices. You could work less, or you could double up and get even further. But how do you get there? Ambitious entrepreneurs are intentional about where they spend their time. They work smart as well as hard.
Inside the quest to finish Super Mario Maker’s disappearing levelsIn 2015, Nintendo released Super Mario Maker for the Wii U, a game that allowed players to make and share their own 2D Mario levels. In 2021, the company ended the ability to upload courses, the game having been eclipsed by its sequel on the Switch.
Maggie Nelson on the Conversations She Wants to Be HavingWe have a sense, I think, of the false border sequestering art from theory. And so to remark on Maggie Nelson’s facility in mating the two is to say the least about how she does so—which is with a hurtling gusto that nonetheless invites us to pause and think.
The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New WorldsRussell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more. Introduction Imagine you’re on a quest to understand the very nature of computation.
6 Interesting Ways to Use NotionKey Takeaways Use Notion as a daily planner by embedding your personal Google Calendar. Enrich your notebook by embedding Spotify, Google Sheets, or graphics. Manage recurring tasks effortlessly using Notion's database template feature.
Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’The other night I attended a press dinner hosted by an enterprise company called Box. Other guests included the leaders of two data-oriented companies, Datadog and MongoDB.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote workToday, I’m talking with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston. Drew co-founded Dropbox way back in 2007, and he’s among the last of the founder-CEOs of that era still standing.
I never liked e-readers, but the Kindle app on my phone has converted meI never really got into Kindles when they were released. At first, I simply preferred using real books, but when I finally tried a Kindle there was something about the page look and the tablet layout that just turned me off.
Israel’s Momentous DecisionMired in a brutal war in Gaza and beset by international condemnation, Israel had a single day of undisputed victory this weekend. After Iran launched more than three hundred missiles and drones at Israeli territory on Saturday night, the Israel Defense Forces shot down nearly every one.
8 DALL-E 3 Prompts for Your Next ImageLearn how to create better AI-generated images in DALL-E 3 with this tried-and-tested list of prompts. You can use these prompts in numerous scenarios and play around with your own ideas and variations for optimal results. Let’s walk through the examples I’ve created.
How Adobe’s bet on non-exploitative AI is paying offSince the beginning of the generative AI boom, there has been a fight over how large AI models are trained. In one camp sit tech companies such as OpenAI that have claimed it is “impossible” to train AI without hoovering the internet of copyrighted data.