November 1, 2011 • 2:50 pm 0
The promise of 3-D printing is that we can generate any arbitrary shape at the push of a button, which sounds pretty impressive until you realize that auto-generating any arbitrary 3-D shape is exactly what living organisms have been up to since the invention of multicellular life.
Filed under: biotech, consumer technology, Fast Company, featured
November 2, 2010 • 3:03 pm 0
When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him.
Filed under: consumer technology, featured, information technology, Technology Review
August 5, 2010 • 6:15 pm 0
…But biology happens for the precise reason that utopian nanotech can’t: The world of the ultrasmall is astonishingly violent. The surfaces of objects turn out to be seething frenzies of motion — atoms vibrating thousands of times a second, bonds forming and breaking. This energetic mess is what powers cellular machinery — but it blows apart anything humans engineer to do the same job.
Filed under: featured, green technology, Wired, Drexler, Neal Stephenson, Soft Machines
December 22, 2009 • 11:30 am 1
People’s Processor: Embrace China’s Homegrown Computer Chips
Wired
Credit is due to Tom Halfhill on this one, who despite being mentioned only once in the piece, has written thousands of words about the Loongson processor and even traveled to China to really break this story open for Microprocessor Report. His insight was invaluable and there is probably no one else in the West who has thought as much about what a homegrown family of MIPS-compatible CPUs could lead to – especially when it’s backed by the full might of the Chinese government.
Filed under: featured, information technology, Wired, Fulong, Lemote, Loongson, MIPS
June 19, 2009 • 6:17 pm 1
Came this close to getting myself shipped to Iceland to report this one… maybe next time.
Filed under: featured, green technology, Popular Science, geothermal, Iceland, Iceland Deep Drilling Project, IDDP, renewable energy
February 3, 2009 • 6:21 pm 0
It’s true: The brain of NASA’s primary vehicle has the computational power of an IBM 5150
Popular Science
Nothing is more deliciously geeky than legacy technology.
Filed under: featured, information technology, Popular Science, NASA, space shuttle
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