In an era where refrigerators tweet and wristwatches stream music, the idea of a computer deliberately cut off from the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

Perovskites: The future of solar? Building with fungi Making meat in a lab Saving mums and their unborn babies What happened next to our problem solvers What happens when you take a little box ...

In case you haven’t heard, the United States is embroiled in a life-and-death arms race. Only it’s not conventional weapons or even world-ending ICBMs we’re rushing to build, and it’s definitely not a ...

In context: Google researcher and reverse engineer "LaurieWired" recently posed a thought-provoking thread on X: What would happen after a CPU manufacturing apocalypse? How would the tech world ...

When power users get a new PC, sometimes they like to start fresh — so they pull the pro gamer move of re-installing Windows with a fresh ISO image direct from Microsoft that has no pack-in bloatware ...

Intel has announced a new feature for Thunderbolt designed to make life easier for folks with both a laptop and a desktop (or just two different PCs they use frequently). Thunderbolt Share allows two ...

With Thunderbolt Share, Intel is turning the Thunderbolt cable into a way to connect two PCs to one another, sharing files or controlling a PC. Simple, huh? Well, except that Intel isn’t exactly ...

Fire and forget spread out multi-camera recording that can be done by not-me when needed. This means that things like logitech's "Let me just reset camera settings to defaults every time" would murder ...

Power outages in the face of natural disasters or more mundane grid failures can range from a mild inconvenience to a matter of life or death if you depend on electrical medical equipment. [Shareable] ...

This morning is Alchemist Accelerator’s demo day, and there are 22 companies making their debut across a wide range of industries. Whether you’re building a construction business, cleaning solar ...