Ransomware reflects the complexities and limitations of the web. It’s worth remembering those limitations as we rely ever more on computer systems that often have pretty shallow foundations when it comes to security and reliability. For example, much of the web has been built on trust, with security very much an after-thought. There’s always been […]
Electric-vehicle concepts are common enough these days that you need more than a zero-emission powertrain to stand out. So why not work on a negative-emission EV? That’s what Heatherwick Studio did with its Airo concept, which uses a HEPA filter under the car to filter out pollution from other cars on the road. The Airo […]
The company’s 100-qubit gate-based quantum computer, code-named Hilbert, is launching later this year after final tuning and optimization work. Image: ColdQuanta By cooling atoms down to near absolute zero and then controlling them with lasers, a company has successfully created a 100-qubit quantum processor that compares to the systems developed by leading quantum players […]
Larry Chen Courtesy of Kahn Media Larry Chen can’t stop talking about the paint. I think he’d lick it if there wasn’t a whole bunch of us watching. I can’t blame him. The color is a dark oaky green with a fine gold pearl that pops along the body lines of the 1970 Blazer and […]
The nation is facing once in a generation choices about how energy ought to be delivered to homes, businesses and electric cars — decisions that could shape the course of climate change and determine how the United States copes with wildfires, heat waves and other extreme weather linked to global warming. On one side, large […]
You’d think it would be easy to turn off your iPhone, right? Just press that power button, and job done. Except that button you think is a power button — presumably because you press it to turn the iPhone on — is not a power button but a “side button.” And pressing that side button […]
There’s no rational decision flowchart that lands you here. No one, least of all Daniel Warner, thinks putting a 27-liter tank engine in a Ford Crown Victoria makes a lick of sense. Petty details like logic and reason won’t stop him, though. “It’s not an intelligent choice of engine if you want to have 2500 […]
The fighting between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that emerged in recent days over oil production had been brewing for months, if not years. A seven-member federation of states on the Persian Gulf, the Emirates is pursuing ambitious plans to expand and modernize its economy, including billions spent on its energy industry. Eventually […]
Ticked off? Try collections. (Image: Verizon) Today, we’re disappearing into the heart, soul, and mind of someone who had a little contretemps with Verizon. No, he’s surely not the first, nor the last. He’s also not the first nor the last to have had a similar contretemps with any of the remaining phone carriers. I […]
Hercules Electric Vehicles The Detroit-based EV startup Hercules has signed Pininfarina to design its upcoming battery-electric pickup. Hercules Electric Vehicles says the Alpha pickup will be available in 2022. The company also says that the four-motor-equipped Alpha pickup will make up to 1000 horsepower. There is a lot of buzz around electric pickups following Ford’s […]