What Is a Quantum Battery? And When Will It Power My Laptop?
The modern battery has come a long way in its 224-year history. In the place of Alessandro Volta’s piles of metal disks and brine-soaked cloth, we now have batteries the…
A Quick Guide to the Spider-Heroes and Villains in Madame Web’s Trailer
Image: Sony Pictures/Marvel Comics This is where things get properly weird with Madame Web. The version of Ezekiel we see in the movie—almost a serial killer Spider-Man with the costume…
“He Has His Apocalyptic Moods” Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk
If he wasn’t known for running EV car maker Tesla, Elon Musk would still be known for SpaceX, his spacecraft and satellite company with Martian ambitions. Or for Neuralink, a…
Babylon 5: The Road Home’s First Trailer Leaves a Sci-Fi Legend Lost in Time
Babylon 5: The Road Home | Official Trailer | Warner Bros. Entertainment Alongside Bruce Boxleitner, returning voice cast for The Road Home includes Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova, Peter Jurasik…
Elon Musk Drops All Media Labels on Twitter, Even for State-Run Outlets
After making a huge deal about sticking labels on the likes of NPR and the BBC in the name of transparency, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided labeling media outlets’…
Is ChatGPT Closer to a Human Librarian Than It Is to Google?
Illustration: Phonlamai Photo (Shutterstock) CC Off English The prominent model of information access and retrieval before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant…