Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs With the arrival of its M4 silicon on the Mac this week, Apple wants the world to know that the silicon powering AI PCs is no match for its chips.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
The decentralized social network hints at sustainability with talk of subscriptions Bluesky says it has hauled in more than 13 million users, up from about three million when it opened to the public in February 2024.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
1.5 is an important number in climate science. It is the recommended target, in degrees Celsius, to which global warming should be limited relative to preindustrial levels, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading authority on climate science[1]. Further, the legally binding Paris Agreement tasksContinue Reading
Science has shown consistently that adding CO2 to the atmosphere is changing the climate in various ways, including raising the surface temperature of the oceans and atmosphere. One of the climate change mitigation technologies is carbon capture and storage (CCS), where CO2 is captured from power plants and other industrialContinue Reading
Wind energy is the largest source of renewable energy in the United States, and second largest in the world after hydropower.[1] A commonly reported critique of wind energy is that birds sometimes die from collision with its associated infrastructure, such as turbines and transmission lines.[2] This issue is givenContinue Reading
Last week’s election results mean there will be a record number of female governors in the U.S. in the coming year: a total of thirteen., Read More from NPRContinue Reading
Zeldin, who left Congress in 2023, was among the Republicans in Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results., Read MoreContinue Reading
Federal officials are reporting more cases of E, Read MoreContinue Reading
The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, Read MoreContinue Reading
Mainstream media contributes significantly to the infectious spread of conspiracy fantasies. But it could hold the cure.Continue Reading
Social media’s malgorithms spread lies and hate. The platforms are unwilling and probably unable to change.Continue Reading
In the final days of the presidential campaign, both major party candidates visited Reading, Pa., home to a large Latino population. Now, voters there share their hopes for the next administration., Read More from NPRContinue Reading
Democratic State Sen. Suhas Subramanyam will be Virginia’s first Indian-American member of Congress. His political rise shows an expanding political power among South Asians in northen Virgina., Read More from NPRContinue Reading