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When Xerox donated a new laser printer to MIT in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the machine would ignite a revolution. While the early...
Christine Peterson, a futurist and lecturer in the field of nanotechnology, coined the term “open source” in 1998.PETER ADAMS Karen Sandler, executive director of the Software...
It’s a project that claims to use cryptocurrency to distribute money across the world, though its bigger ambition is to create a global identity system called...
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More compute leads to greater electricity consumption, and consequent carbon emissions. A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst estimated that the electricity...
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Are we really proceeding down a path where I might have to delete and re-download certain apps as I cross state lines? What is the future...
The future of space food could be as simple—and weird—as a protein shake made with astronaut breath or a burger made from fungus. For decades, astronauts...
To solve the problem of feeding astronauts on long-duration missions, NASA started the Deep Space Food Challenge in January 2021, asking companies to propose novel ways...
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