Artist Pierre Huyghe Ola Rindal A century ago, when quantum mechanics was developed, physicists felt they were peering into the abyss: everything they thought was real, wasn’t. Today, we talk easily about collapsing clouds of probability and spooky action at a distance. Liminals by artist Pierre Huyghe (pictured) reminds us how gut-wrenching the ideas remain….
Earlier this year, I had coffee with the chief investment officer of a large public pension fund. His fund doesn’t invest directly into venture (they have a fund of funds position instead), so my new CIO friend doesn’t usually get pitched directly by VC funds. He doesn’t spend a ton of time in tech circles…
Alongside a global launch for Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra (read about that right here), the company announced a further deepening of its relationship with Leica. The CEO of Leica, Matthias Harsch, took to the stage to announce a new Leitzphone, which appears to be an even deeper collaboration than 17 Ultra by Leica, which is a…
Astronauts practise tasks in a simulated moon environment NASA Preparing to send people back to the moon is a complex business, with astronaut safety at the top of the list of priorities. In the image above, NASA crew members are testing a new generation of spacesuits, built by Texas-based aerospace company Axiom Space. The company’s…
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Zillow economists just published their updated 12-month forecast, projecting that U.S. home prices—as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index—will rise +0.9% between January 2026 and January 2027. That’s a mild downward revision from its 12-month forecast published last month (+2.1%). At its…
Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. It’s Steam Next Fest week, with literally thousands of demos for upcoming games for us to dive into. I’m trying to check out as many as I can before the event wraps up on Monday. However, I made a near-critical error…
Superconducting computing circuits were briefly heralded as the future of computing in the 1980s. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan visits a quantum chip foundry where one company is betting this technology’s second act will revolutionise quantum computers Source link
I’ll never forget the first time I heard someone say, “This meeting could’ve been an email.” You can probably imagine exactly the voice they said it in (and what their face looked like). You’re probably heard it many times yourself. The meeting in question was a project check-in with multiple departments, where we’d spent an…
The Federal Communications Commission has given the go ahead for two of the US’ biggest cable providers, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, to merge. Charter announced its intention to acquire Cox for $34.5 billion in May 2025, with specific plans to inherit Cox’s managed IT, commercial fiber and cloud businesses, while folding the company’s residential…
In this extract from Daisy Fancourt’s Art Cure, the March read for the New Scientist Book Club, we learn about how art classes transformed life for Russell after he had a stroke Source link
