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.

“I've started to think about three puzzles we need to solve for as we bring these technologies into our organizations.”

Real progress demands rules built for uncertainty — not for the few innovations dominating today’s tech landscape.

Common law has long balanced innovation and accountability. Can it do the same for AI?

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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.

"What would a totalitarian society that is not well disposed to our own do if it had God-like power? We don't wanna find out."

"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.

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick explains why “co-intelligence may be the future of AI.

When Google runs a smart city, who owns the data?

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.

The United States is the biggest risk in 2024. Here are the other 9, explained by Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.

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.

A space ad could pay for itself after one month.

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.