Tag: tbm
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What is the impact of this slowdown? The increasingly critical role computation has played across disparate industries suggests the impact is immediate, and will only get more significant if Moore’s Law… more ›
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Industrial heat is largely invisible to consumers but represents about 20% of global final energy demand and 10% of the world’s CO2 emissions. That is 2.5 times more than air and maritime transportation emissions… more ›
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Cultural exchange is often assumed to be progressive, but it has neither an inherent politics nor an inevitable outcome. As nationalism rises across the globe, many see ‘cultural exchange’ as… more ›
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Computer science has a long history — going back to before there even was computer science — of implementing neural networks, but for the most part these have been simulations of neural… more ›
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The society of control marks a historical mutation of power, a redirection of its attention towards the turbulent levels of matter/energy. The emergence of control can be perceived through science, technology,… more ›
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The Malian discovery was vivid evidence for what a small group of scientists, studying hints from seeps, mines, and abandoned wells, had been saying for years: Contrary to conventional wisdom,… more ›
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As Amazon-type e-commerce—personified in Jumia—flounders, African entrepreneurs are finding ways to sell online that combine how people shop in malls with the convenience of retail corner shops, the shops that… more ›
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A large number of Taleban fighters have moved to Afghanistan’s cities since the movement’s capture of power, many of them seeing life in the city for the first time in… more ›
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There are now hundreds of startups exploring the use of machine learning in the pharmaceutical industry, says Nathan Benaich at Air Street Capital, a VC firm that invests in biotech… more ›
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The examples listed above are technically impressive, meaningful, and better than ever . But the future was supposed to have arrived by now. In 2023, it’s difficult to say that… more ›