Category: 8. Tech

Already a star, the Chevrolet Corvette went supernova when the mid-engined version debuted in 2020 — but that was some six years ago, and the location of the car’s engine isn’t as big of a deal as it used to be. Nowadays, there’s more buzz for…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one…

AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM’s VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild…

Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers…

The Full Swing KIT launch monitor, used by Tiger Woods, Jon Rahm, and Dustin Johnson is currently on a massive Black Friday discount – don’t miss out on perfecting your game

Launch monitors are some of the most impressive devices in the…

Audio brand Fosi has launched the DS2 DAC for smartphones with a headphone amplifier and…

For Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield, embarrassment can be a useful and motivating tool.

Butterfield led Slack, which is now owned by Salesforce, from 2009 to 2023 as CEO. In 2014, he gave an interview where he…

Last week, Google launched Gemini 3, the latest version of its AI that promises major advancements in reasoning, long-form problem solving and multimodal capabilities. In order to help people use the new model to the best of its abilities, the…

Microsoft Corp. is quietly testing a controversial tweak to Windows 11 that keeps File Explorer running perpetually in the background, aiming to slash the frustrating delays users have long endured when opening the file manager. The…