A better social media would need to be decentralized… As well as avoiding a single point of failure (or censorship), this would help with other goals: community ownership, and democratic control, would be facilitated by having many smaller, perhaps more local, sites. Existing social media giants must be brought into Read more…
Paris voted overwhelmingly Sunday to banish for-hire electric scooters from the streets of the French capital, delivering a blow to operators and a victory for road safety campaigners. The referendum means the City of Light, once a pioneer in embracing e-scooter services, is set to become the only major European Read more…
“SpaceX has its first commercial cargo contract to the lunar surface,” says Jaret Matthews, the founder of the tiny startup Astrolab which makes a moon rover the size of a Jeep Wrangler. On Friday, Astrolab announced that it had signed an agreement with SpaceX for its Flexible Logistics and Exploration Read more…
Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds to the specific amount of energy required to change the magnetization of a material via a collective excitation called a spin wave. Read more…
“Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol every day does not — as once thought — protect against death from heart disease,” writes the Washington Post, “nor does it contribute to a longer life, according to a sweeping new analysis of alcohol research.” The review, which examined existing research on the health Read more…
