The world needs thousands of new grid battery installations to fight climate change. They rarely catch…
Author: Gregory Barber
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model…
LK-99 Is Fueling a DIY Superconductivity Race
Experts doubt claims that LK-99 is a room-temperature superconductor set to open up a future of…
A Vast Untapped Green Energy Source Is Hiding Beneath Your Feet
New experiments in the deserts of Utah and Nevada show how advances in fracking—technology developed by…
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with the decentralized protocol underlying Mastodon. Proponents of interoperable social…
Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that…
Deepmind’s AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding
AlphaDev has made small but significant improvements to decades-old C++ algorithms. Its builders say that’s just…
The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
Ocean creatures soak up huge amounts of humanity’s carbon mess. Should we value them like financial…
Tesla’s Magnet Mystery Shows Elon Musk Is Willing to Compromise
The EV maker said it will expunge rare earths from its vehicles' motors, suggesting Tesla engineers…
No, Fusion Energy Won’t Be ‘Limitless’
Scientific advances have renewed hopes of “unlimited energy,” while economic studies suggest that fusion power will…