Image: Chris McLoughlin / Getty Images What do you want to happen to your body when you die? Have you thought about the environmental implications? Do you care? On this episode of Ask Us Anything, Popular Science editors Sarah Durn and Laura Baisas discuss the most eco-friendly burial options. And, as it turns out, theContinue Reading
$50B Per Year SpaceX Deal is $75B More than Waiting for Data Centers in 1 Year. There is an AI gold rush which is why SpaceX and its customers will win. OpenAI signed the Oracle $300 billion five year deal because that is the plan B they can afford. Waiting for Compute Because They HaveContinue Reading
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data, the bloc’s data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ WebContinue Reading
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that the (SMART) tool is the most advanced air traffic management system in the world., Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that the (SMART) tool is the most advanced air traffic management system in the world., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Say goodbye to people thinking you’re a creep next time you take a desktop screenshot in a public space, as GNOME 51 has changed the sound effect that plays when you do. For a while now, when you screen grab your desktop or an app window, the accompanying sound effectContinue Reading
Infineon has introduced the OPTIREG TLE9744QK, a power management IC for the high-voltage traction inverters used in electric and hybrid vehicles. The part folds an inverter’s supply rails, its resolver excitation circuit and a dedicated safety engine into a single device. An inverter ECU needs several isolated rails for itsContinue Reading
EV charging infrastructure provider Green Water & Power (GWP), has announced a milestone in its partnership with EV charging hardware manufacturer Autel Energy: the installation of more than 10,000 Autel EV chargers nationwide since 2023. GWP has worked closely with Autel Energy to deploy commercial charging solutions in a rangeContinue Reading
Apparently autumn is when President Traitor 47 feels free to admit to his anti-free speech, anti-free press ways. For a guy who constantly lied about being in support of free speech, despite regularly suing people and news organizations for their speech, he’s been remarkably willing to admit to wanting toContinue Reading
New data shows that sales for new and used electric vehicles rose in August…Continue Reading
A new version of Sublime Text is out – the first major update to the cross-platform (and closed-source) text editor since May 2025. Sublime Text v4213 makes Python 3.14 the default (replacing v3.8). The editor still ships Python 3.3 – ancient as it is – though it is disabled byContinue Reading
It’s the end of a very long era: As of October 2026, Microsoft Publisher, in the company’s words, “will reach its end of life.” That makes it 35 years since the desktop publishing tool was launched back in 1991. What does reaching end of life mean? That depends on whatContinue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages. The partners — 60 in total, according to Monday’s announcement — include frontier AI labs, corporations, philanthropies and others already working toContinue Reading
The claim process has opened for a massive settlement involving select iPhones., The claim process has opened for a massive settlement involving select iPhones., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading