July 27, 2022 Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Could Be Canonizing Another Enterprise With the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard reuniting much of the bridge crew of the Enterprise-D, it makes sense that the…
July 27, 2022 Senate passes bill to boost US chip manufacturing The US government just crossed a key milestone in its bid to improve domestic chip production and compete with rivals like China. CNBCreports the…
July 27, 2022 The Facebookification of Instagram An Instagram employee taking a video at Facebook’s corporate headquarters during a media event in 2013. | Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Land of…
July 27, 2022 We finally know what ‘Wi-Fi’ stands for – and it’s not what you think Let me ask you a question: what does the name “Wi-Fi” mean? Considering how omnipresent Wi-Fi connections are, this should be an easy question…
July 27, 2022 Data breaches are more expensive, and more annoying, than ever Data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before, a wide-ranging study by IBM has found. Surveying 550 organizations from all over the…
July 27, 2022 Jordan Peele’s Nope: io9’s Spoiler-Filled Discussion A year has passed since Jordan Peele first let the world know the ominous title of his next movie; ever since, we’ve all been…
July 27, 2022 Researchers created low-cost, 3D-printed plasma sensors for satellites Doing just about anything in space is expensive, but a group of MIT scientists has found a way to bring down some costs —…
July 27, 2022 Google’s plan to get rid of cookies (still) isn’t going well It will be a little while longer before Google’s browser stops supporting cookies. | Ali Balikci/Anadolu Agency Chrome’s third-party cookie ban has been delayed…
July 27, 2022 Senate Passes $52 Billion Chips Bill, Tosses Over to House for Vote It’s hard to get the majority of the U.S. Senate to agree on anything, but apparently more than 60% of the upper house of…
July 27, 2022 The CHIPS Act won’t solve the chip shortage The CHIPS Act will subsidize US semiconductor manufacturing and research with billions in funding — but it may not do much for the ongoing…