The New Hatred of Technology
People have never been better, here in the Year of Our Simulation 2024, at hating the very forces underlying that simulation—at hating, in other words, digital technology itself. And good …
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The Asus Zenbook 14 laptop is now 50% off
For anyone on the hunt after a new laptop to keep their productivity up or see them through their studies, Amazon has just dropped one heck of a bargain. It’s …
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Tablets Grow Like PCs And Smartphones In 2024?
Home Business Can Artificial Intelligence Help Tablets Grow Like PCs And Smartphones In 2024? Global tablet shipments registered a modest growth of 0.5 percent (year-on-year) in the first quarter this …
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. His encoding had two key …
A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade
This is a job for LLL: Give it (or its brethren) a basis of a multidimensional lattice, and it’ll spit out a better one. This process is known as lattice …
The One Part of Apple Vision Pro That Apple Doesn’t Want You to See
Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal. Courtesy of Joanna Stern If Vision Pro is mostly meant to be used from a couch cushion or desk chair, the external battery …
ChatGPT’s Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution
The cost of making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as a hallucination by ChatGPT. Demand for the graphics chips known as GPUs needed for large-scale AI …
Sabrent’s Universal Docking Station is a ‘Do-Everything’ Laptop Cradle
Sabrent announced a new Universal Docking Station designed to provide a desktop home for laptops but it will work with just about any USB-C device, including tablets, smartphones, or other …
The Holy Grail of Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. Or Is It?
Andersen and Lensky of Google disagree. They do not think the experiment demonstrates a topological qubit, because the object cannot reliably manipulate information to achieve practical quantum computing. “It is …
Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking
Turing’s diagonalization proof is a version of this game where the questions run through the infinite list of possible algorithms, repeatedly asking, “Can this algorithm solve the problem we’d like …