Why some “breakthrough” technologies don’t work out
Every year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In fact, the 2026 version is out today. This marks the 25th year the...
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The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station
For decades, space stations have been largely staffed by professional astronauts and operated by a handful of nations. But that’s about to change in the coming...
Read moreAuto-CPUFreq 3.0 Released To Help You Extend Laptop Battery Life On Linux
Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 released this weekend as the newest version of this Linux user-space tool to help you extend your laptop battery life by automatically applying CPU...
Read moreHyte X50 PC Case Review: Computers Should Be Cute
Hyte’s rounded glass case brings a fun, bubbly aesthetic to your desk.
Read moreGood technology should change the world
The billionaire investor Peter Thiel (or maybe his ghostwriter) once said, “We were promised flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” That quip originally appeared in...
Read moreMeet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which...
Read moreHow next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint
Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons. Those bump into other atoms, splitting them and...
Read moreArticle: Spec Driven Development: When Architecture Becomes Executable
Spec-Driven Development inverts traditional architecture by making specifications executable and authoritative. It transforms declared intent into validated code through AI generation and provides architectural determinism. It...
Read morePodcast: Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and...
Read moreApple: You (Still) Don’t Understand the Vision Pro
Dear Apple, I was, given my interest in virtual and augmented reality, already primed to have a high degree of interest in the Vision Pro, but...
Read moreBudgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit
With Budgie 10.10 released this weekend, Budgie desktop developers have provided an update around Budgie 11 desktop development…
Read moreBTW, Arch Users! Pacman Might Be Getting a Rust Replacement
The Rust-based ALPM project is looking suspiciously like Pacman’s replacement.
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