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Data centers consume enormous amounts of power, but their steady demand could make the grid more efficient — and lower costs for everyone.
We’ve populated low-Earth orbit with satellites in record time — now we have to figure out how to keep it safe.
A broken laptop hinge revealed a broader shift in how modern products are designed, sold, and owned
The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.
Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left -- and has a big opportunity ahead.
Common law has long balanced innovation and accountability. Can it do the same for AI?
Real progress demands rules built for uncertainty — not for the few innovations dominating today’s tech landscape.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
The Juno spacecraft, orbiting and imaging Jupiter since 2016, is still succeeding. Without a further extension, the mission now faces death.
"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
Behind America's hunt for a superior semiconductor.
Both nations made missteps, but China still has a chance to make up lost ground.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.
TikTok and its allies won't go down without a legal fight.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
Practical ML can radically improve business operations, but there’s a deployment issue.
The futuristic weapon could be ready for the battlefield in 5 years.
It will be immensely difficult for the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to protect their competitive edge if they do not pursue a radical change.
If a court needs to know if two trademarks look too similar to each other, perhaps the jury should be given a brain scan.
One of the fundamental questions for those studying and advocating progress is around understanding what variables can move the needle for the type of progress that you might want to see in the world. It's a key focus of the "progress studies" discipline and a question that has received increased attention from academics and public intellectuals in recent years.
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
As technology advances, the use of laser weapons in space becomes more likely.
On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had […]
The story behind the meme is one of those rare cases where everybody wins. The spectacle of a large fish getting fired out of a cannon has taken the internet […]
And England almost burned themselves down as a result. “When Benjamin Franklin inveted the lightning rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it […]