A new type of room temperature sodium-sulfur (RT Na-S) battery could help solve the renewable energy storage problem.
Google will kill off products when they realize they will not have a dominant market position, even if the product has a healthy user base and is profitable, former company insiders have told me.
It doesn’t make sense for Google to invest in smaller projects that have exceeded their growth potential, especially if they are niche and losing money.
So many projects are killed by Google that an independent entity has created a website called Killed by Google.
The method can be used on any time-sensitive natural disaster.
In 2011, northeast Japan was struck by a devastating tsunami that claimed the lives of about 18,500 people. Since then, the nation has been focused on preventing a similar outcome in the future.
“The main advantage of our method is the speed of predictions, which is crucial for early warning,” explained Iyan Mulia, the work’s lead and a scientist at RIKEN.
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The FTX collapse has far-reaching consequences.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have been sued alongside Gemini, the crypto exchange they founded, over charges of fraud by investors in the company, Markets Insider.
Tyler and Cameron, popularly known as Winklevoss twins, have a long history in the technology sector and first made headlines when they sued Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that they had stolen their idea of a social networking site, when he churned out The Facebook, as it was then known.
Zuckerberg has stated that he expects it to take up to a decade for the metaverse to go mainstream.
Virtual reality (VR) technology, once hailed as the next big thing in the tech industry, has yet to live up to its hype. According to data acquired by CNBC.
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The Opening Interview: The Reality Beyond Spacetime — with Donald Hoffman — 5.15pm GMT, 12.15pm ET
Donald Hoffman famously argues that we know nothing about the truth of the world. His book, The Case Against Reality, claims the process of survival of the fittest does not require a true picture of reality.
But the question remains, on what basis can Hoffman claim his own theory is true? Furthermore, Hoffman claims spacetime is not fundamental. So, what does he think lies beneath spacetime, and what can we know about it?
Today’s retirement and pension plans were not designed for the current reality of people living longer, healthier lives. How will retirement be redesigned?
When we are shown two options, our eyes tend to flick from one to the other and back again several times as we deliberate on the pros and cons of each.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US have found that the speed with which our eyes dart between options gives away our true preference and predicts the ultimate decision we will make.
This quick eye movement – called a saccade – is what allows you to read; your focus travels abruptly from word to word, fixating briefly on some words before moving on to construct meaning from a block of text.
A true embodiment of French Gothic expression in architecture, Chartres Cathedral sits some 50 miles southwest of Paris, in the commune of Chartres. The cathedral was built to be higher and bigger than other cathedrals of the era.
One of the cathedral’s most famous features is its intricate labyrinth located in the nave. Little is known about the cathedral builders, therefore little is known about the motives behind one of the most enigmatic labyrinth depictions in the world.
Construction of the Chartres Cathedral unfolded rather faster than was the case with other cathedrals at the time. For instance, the Notre Dame in Paris took almost two centuries to accomplish, starting from 1160. On the Chartres site, activities reportedly began in 1,194 and finished in 1221.
