Future news and milestones

How general anaesthetics work is still not fully understood, but they are revealing clues about the nature of consciousness.

In 1865, English economist William Jevons noticed something worrying. As steam engines increasingly became more efficient, Britain increasingly burned more coa…

Google is launching its Googlebooks on October 4th, starting at $899. The Android-based laptops have some interesting ideas about how a laptop interacts with a phone.

The future is invented by people no smarter than you or me.

IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, LLC (HRL), a flagship research and development institution. HRL is a private company jointly owned…

We often think of allergies as the result of an unlucky hand dealt in childhood, or even before birth. But "any person, at any point in their life, can develop a new allergy".

Back in July, inspired by yet another AI integration into firefox, I wrote a

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

AI cyberattacks could wreak havoc on the infrastructure that runs our lives

AI agents also sought to access secret information and covered up what they were doing

Consumer AI will be more visual and personal.

Engineering has primarily been about making things that operate within relatively stable and reliable rules.Engineers build bridges, software, vehicles, and so on.Let's assume, j…

Remember the charming cat that sneezed in the screensaver of the Soviet cartoon? We remember and found it - along with a pile of other hand-drawn fiction. As...

Looking back, I can see signs of my five kids' future careers in their childhood interests. I'm glad I supported them without forcing a path.

Hugging Face has been acquired by NVIDIAIt is quite exciting to be a part of this journey! NVIDIA has been an active supporter of the llama.cpp project. For more than a year now,…

Perception, prediction, uncertainty, and what Yoga taught me about seeing the difference.

The Volkswagen Group has revealed a 'transformation program' that includes layoffs, potential factory closures and brand shutdowns.

An old seafaring instrument could help astronauts on ever more far-flung and perilous missions.

More people are choosing not to have kids. And many who want them are struggling to conceive.

Software is evolving.

This week I came across two posts with more moderate takes on how AI will influence our work.Alberto de Prezzo argues that while AIs generate the solutions, engineers are still n…

In this Virginia county, the infrastructure boom began two decades ago. Few residents even knew it happened, but now they're reckoning with the next wave of data centers and what…

Whatever the AI future is, we're in it right now.

On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.

Cyberpunk 2077 is starting to look like real life.DLSS 5 + NeoClarity + Path Tracing on an RTX 5090 makes Night City look ridiculously realistic.This is getting out of hand.

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the biggest telescope ever built is taking shape - and it could radically change our view of the Universe.

Y Combinator named AI-Native Compliance Infrastructure a Fall 2026 Request for Startups. Why continuous penetration testing and continuous compliance evidence are converging, how…

The newly released Ground Combat Element 2040 is the Marine Corps' vision for fighting increasingly complex land battles.

Article 1: Pakistan's Security Architecture Today - Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?

Machines are sticking out their digital palms. Your reaction could help shape the future of the service industry.

Agent Plugins are the future of Agent Skills

The great filter (a term I coined) is all the things that block simple dead matter from evolving into an advanced civilization easily seen from far away.

Future's 'The Real Me' became his 12th No. 1 album. The Rolling Stones and the 'Heated Rivalry" soundtrack also debuted in the Billboard chart's top 10.

Future is back with his first solo release in 4 years.

The question "can computers think" is something many people are taking very seriously. A philosophy professor believes we could be heading towards a future with conscious machine…

There is a countercultural revolution spreading across the United States.

Rapper Future is reportedly facing a paternity suit seeking child support by an ex claiming he's the father of her 9-year-old son.

The shift from internal combustion engines to battery electric vehicles is accelerating. Lowering costs requires inefficiencies, innovation, and new customers.

Caught between competing impulses, we praise living in the moment while obsessing about what's to come, Joshua Rothman writes.

From art to architecture, the PBS series "A Brief History of the Future" highlights ways to consider our shared humanity and the future we're building…

Future is known for his chart-topping trap music, but also for his multiple kids with multiple women over the years.

Future, whose real name is Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn, is a renowned rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. He gained widespread recognition…