A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here

Quantum computing has enormous potential, but it faces a scalability problem. For such a machine to be useful in real ...
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The Download: ancient DNA’s modern uses, and an AI-artist collaboration

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year

It’s been nearly four years since Spotify announced a HiFi tier for its music streaming service that would support lossless ...
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Meta Appears to Have Invented a Device Allowing You to Type With Your Brain

Image by Getty / Futurism Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta says it’s created a device that lets you produce text simply by ...
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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits

Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project had uncovered massive government fraud when ...
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OpenAI’s reasoning models just got two useful updates

ZDNET OpenAI’s reasoning models, o1 and o3-mini, are helpful tools for people who rely on ChatGPT for more complex prompts, ...
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Hundreds Of Unicorns Haven’t Raised New Funding Since 2021

We are witnessing an unprecedented pile-up of unicorn startups that have not raised any money since 2021. Currently, an estimated ...
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What Does Every Human Gene Do? This Massive Project Is About to Find Out

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But ...
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Here’s What An RTX 5090 Does For Fallout & Flight Simulator In VR

Not everyone has been able to access NVIDIA’s latest RTX 5000 graphics card series. I’m one of the few who ...
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