Hulu blocks ads on abortion, guns, and climate change — and Dems aren’t happy

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Abortion rights, gun control, and climate change have taken center stage for Democrats running in this year’s midterm elections. But the popular streaming service Hulu has repeatedly rejected Democratic ads focusing on these central campaign issues over the last few weeks, as first reported by The Washington Post…

This Week in Washington IP: Cybersecurity in Civil Space Operations, Coordinating Patent Data Between the USPTO and the FDA, and Innovative Ideas for Modernizing Congress

This week in Washington IP news, committee hearings at the U.S. House of Representatives focus on several topics related to technology including improvements to civil space procurement activities to promote cybersecurity in space systems, the use of facial recognition technology by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, as well as technological recommendations advanced by the House…

No sugarcoating: Donut math yields way to make qubits last longer

Enlarge / An ion trap, the quantum hardware that was used for this work. (credit: Honeywell) You can almost hear the indrawn breath from newsrooms around the world. Specialist science journalists have hidden themselves in the bathroom to weep quietly. The cause of such despair? Someone has released a paper containing the word “topology”—something no…