Following the haphazard rollout Tuesday of a plan the White House claimed offered “buyouts” to nearly the entire federal workforce but ultimately looked more like extended paid leave prior to leaving government, federal employee groups, Democratic lawmakers and good government experts are warning federal workers not to respond to the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” email. … Read more
It’s always tough to keep the audience’s attention after a riotous main act, but the UltraSharp U2724DE is a suitably spellbinding performer. Riffing on the UltraSharp U2723Q‘s eye-catching performance and fixing the odd bum note along the way, this 27-inch monitor lowers the resolution, ups the refresh rate, and improves image quality where it matters. … Read more
When a small Chinese company called DeepSeek revealed that it had created an A.I. system that could match leading A.I. products made in the United States, the news was greeted in many circles as a warning that China was closing the gap in the global race to build artificial intelligence. DeepSeek also said it built … Read more
Underground pools of liquid brine probably formed 4.6 billion years ago on the parent body of the asteroid Bennu and contained the building blocks of life but not living creatures. That’s the takeaway from new chemical analyses of samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission snagged from the roughly 500-meter-long space rock in 2020 and returned to Earth … Read more
The StratiFly tool allows users to visualize how shifting technology assumptions (left) impact the most efficient propulsion system for each combination of cruise speed and mission range (right). Credit: Progress in Aerospace Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2024.101051 OK, we admit, we’re a long way from a carbon-free grid—but when we have one, what’s the most efficient … Read more
This year, Apple is expected to discontinue the iPhone “Plus” device in its iPhone 17 lineup to make way for an iPhone “Air,” so-called because of its thin profile. Below is a compilation of every rumor and leak we have registered from reputable sources thus far about Apple’s new entry in its flagship smartphone lineup. … Read more
A home robot trained to perform household tasks in a factory may fail to effectively scrub the sink or take out the trash when deployed in a user’s kitchen, since this new environment differs from its training space. To avoid this, engineers often try to match the simulated training environment as closely as possible with … Read more
The vivo X200 Pro excels at photos and videos alike, while continuing to deliver a mostly refined premium smartphone experience. vivo’s questionable software choices along with a strange camera glare issue keep it a niche pick, but if you want an innovative camera phone with amazing zoom skills, the vivo X200 Pro is a great … Read more
The tech industry has long been infatuated with metaphors relating to the original space race. Its favorite one is moon shot, a term it applies to any undertaking of atypical ambition. But Chinese startup DeepSeek’s release of a reasoning AI model that may be a peer of OpenAI’s GPT-o1—despite having been created on the cheap, … Read more
Software-defined networking (SDN) Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to network management that enables dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring. It operates by separating the network control plane from the data plane, enabling network-wide changes without manually reconfiguring each device. Network security Network security consists of the policies, … Read more
