(From left) Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach After awarding three climate change modelers with the physics prize last year, the Nobel Committee recognized another trio of theorists in the field this year. Earlier today, it announced John. F Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger as…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
By this point, you’ve probably heard that Ned Fulmer is no longer a Try Guy. So what’s next for the quartet-turned-trio? In a video posted on Oct. 3, Eugene Yang, Zach Kornfeld, and Keith Habersberger laid out the basics of what transpired on the backend that led to Fulmer’s removal and how they’re moving forward….
Freepik has announced the acquisition of two content services in a bid to strengthen its visual assets offerings. The free stock image and vector illustration platform is adding icons and illustration library Iconfinder and Original Mockup, a mockup template solution, to its portfolio. News of the purchase – whose terms remain as yet undisclosed –…
Mastercard has launched a new service designed to help banks identify fraud across crypto exchange platforms. Crypto Secure uses artificial intelligence to help banks determine how likely it is that a crypto exchange on the Mastercard network is connected to fraud activity and allow them to act accordingly. The new platform expands on existing tech…
The new Google Pixel Watch will be quite the svelte little smartwatch, if a leak on Reddit proves accurate. Our friends at PhoneArena noticed a leaker had opened up a demo unit of the new Pixel Watch and had taken plenty of photos from every angle showing the glossy black disk, the band, and the…
Voluble billionaire Elon Musk may be finally ready to close that giant Twitter deal – at least for today. Musk filed a letter in court on Monday to restart the deal at the originally agreed upon terms, according to a Bloomberg report. The news comes days before Musk was due to be deposed in a…
A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) examining the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our working environments has predicted what it calls an “office real estate apocalypse”. The September 2022 paper found a significant 45% decline in office values during 2020, with a longer term fall of 39%. The NBER places…
Screenshot of a Casey Neistat YouTube video with 4K resolution selected from the video quality menu. YouTube YouTube might be testing making 4K streaming a paid YouTube Premium feature. 4K is currently free for all users, but people on Twitter and Reddit said YouTube was asking them to upgrade. YouTube’s official support Twitter told a…
For sale sign in front of a house. PM Images/Getty Images A New York man unwittingly fell victim to a mortgage scam in 2010 and is now facing eviction. Johnnie Jackson has been trying to regain control of his childhood home for 12 years. Since he was a child, the home was a site of…
Fed Chair Jerome Powell and fellow policymakers think unemployment has to top 4% to bring down inflation. Reuters/Joshua Roberts The Federal Reserve thinks US unemployment has to top 4% before inflation will cool, given rising wages. But Pantheon Macro says if people’s expectations for inflation are lower, that will drag on wage growth. “For the…