Innovation & Tech Today
POWERING FORWARD
Navigating the World of Electric Vehicle Charging
4 min |
Volume 9 / Issue 2
Innovation & Tech Today
American Manufacturing
Women in the Lone Star State
2 min |
Volume 9 / Issue 2
Innovation & Tech Today
Revolutionizing Mobility
Advancements and Challenges of Al in Self-Driving Cars
2 min |
Volume 9 / Issue 2
WIRED
Women at the Bottom of the World
They go to Antarctica with dreams of studying the unknown. What they discover there is the stuff of nightmares.
10+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
THE NERD-KING VIBES OF JENSEN HUANG
The Nvidia CEO turned a graphics-card company into a trillion-dollar AI behemoth. Now he wants to transform the rest of the world-health care, robotics, autonomous driving, the works.
10+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
HAPPY HAUNTING
IN A CHARMING game called This Discord Has Ghosts in It, up to 15 participants at a time gather in a Discord server that has been reimagined as a haunted house. (Of course.) Inside lies a maze of (chat) rooms where each player takes the role of either an eponymous spirit or a paranormal investigator.
3 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
RUSSIAN, GO HOME
WHEN MY COUNTRY WENT TO WAR, I FACED A CHOICE: Flee to a world where the truth might kill me - or seek peace in censored oblivion.
10+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
FOR GIANT LIZARDS, PLEASE HOLD
The sounds of Slack have a secret history.
5 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
SO YOU WANT TO REWIRE BRAINS
There's a lot to like about brain-computer interfaces, those sci-fi-sounding devices that jack into your skull and turn neural signals into software commands. Experimental BCIS help paralyzed people communicate, use the internet, and move prosthetic limbs.
3 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
THE MYTH OF METAL
How I became a Python programmer - and learned to love our abstract world.
5 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
Can the Internet's Greatest Authenticity Machine Survive Wall Street?
When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest last summer, it exposed the tension at the core of Reddit - on the eve of the company's IPO. Now that synthetic media is flooding the internet, does the web's most reliably human forum represent a gold mine for investors, or an old-fashioned dumpster fire?
10+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
The Fateful Eight
THE STORY BEHIND THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL TECHNOLOGICAL PAPER IN RECENT HISTORY.
10+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
The Unnerving Presence of Javier Bardem
He's known for playing fanatics and murderous psychopaths. In real life, he loves his wife (and Brad Pitt) and cries during E.T.
10+ min |
May - June 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Cascading Failures Behind One of the Worst Building Collapses in U.S. History
Engineers are still investigating the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside Florida, but early findings shed light on a risk facing poorly constructed residential and office buildings,
8 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Cutting the Cord
THE HANDHELD CIRCULAR SAW IS PERHAPS THE MOST VERSAtile power tool for cutting wood.
2 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
How This Particle Could Break Our Understanding of Reality
EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL THEORY OF relativity teaches us that nothing can accelerate past the speed of light. But what if, when you were born, you were already moving faster than light? What would that look like?
3 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
How the World's Largest Spherical Structure Was Built
THE SHINY, NEW LAS VEGAS SPHERE IS more than just a 17,600-seat amphitheaterstyle venue hosting a U2 residency. Since its opening in September 2023, it's become the world's largest spherical structure, at 516 feet wide and 366 feet tall.
2 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Right Way to Use a Fire Extinguisher
A FIRE EXTINGUISHER IS MORE THAN A of one 5-gallon bucket becomes the size of 64 burning buckets. Just 180 seconds after it begins, a fire can be transformed from a nuisance to a room-size, life-threatening inferno.
2 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Army's Drone-Killing Laser Weapon
THE U.S. ARMY FIELDED ITS FIRST LASERweapon-equipped unit in October. Based at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the unit took possession of four laser-equipped Stryker infantry combat vehicles, each mounting a 50-kilowatt-class laser-weapon system. The combination of Stryker and laser can down both artillery, such as mortars and rockets, and drones in-flight.
3 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Why It's So Hard to Mine the World's Largest Lithium Deposit
A Pass, or Peehee Mu'huh to the local Paiute people has been mined since the 1970s, so the new analysis merely confirms what locals have long known about the area.
2 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
WHAT THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL X-RAY LASER WILL DO FOR SCIENCE
DEEP UNDER MENLO PARK, California, there is a threemile-long machine operating in a tunnel that scientists are keeping colder than even some of the deepest reaches of space.
3 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
POPULAR MECHANICS TOP AWARDS 2024
For more than 120 years, Popular Mechanics has been a heavy-duty brand. We see no reason to change that now.
6 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
How Three Amateurs Solved the Zodiac Killer's '340' Cipher
The mysterious code stumped the FBI and NSA for 53 years. What does the key, and the resulting solution, tell us about the infamous murderer?
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
TAIL AS OLD AS TIME
Was Bobi the world's longest-lived dogor just another casualty of Big Kibble?
5 min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
LOVE, DEMENTIA AND ROBOTICS
When my parents got sick, I turned to a NEW GENERATION of roboticists and their GLOWING, TALKING, WARMHEARTED creations.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT
Mock it all you want-but it runs the world. Possibly even literally.
5 min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND
TWO NATIONS. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. AND THE URGENT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF SPACE RIGHT NOW.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Three decades after a devastating nuclear war between the US and China, a divided America faces a new threat to its very DNA. An excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
THE Algorithmic Authenticity OF Shou Zi Chew
The CEO of the world's most influential social media company likes tacos, Sheryl Crow, and Diablo IV. Is he for real-ora really good politician?
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
EVERY WOMAN IS AN ISLAND
Matriarchy, money, and a modern mariner named Marina.
5 min |