Month: June 2025

A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

Delays and dictionaries One year after the Stanford work, in 2024, Stavisky’s team published its own research on a brain-to-text system that bumped the ...

Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s ...

Fairphone Has a New Plan to Get You to Care

“I can’t see any significant growth over the next few years,” says Stryjak. “Other companies have caught up a little bit in terms of ...

China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong space station

HELSINKI — Two Chinese astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, marking their second spacewalk in five weeks. Astronaut Chen ...

The Best Printers for Home and Office: Brother, HP, and More

Before anything else, you’ll have to decide between ink and laser. I’ll get into the details when it comes to each model, but the ...

I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn’t Terrible

Trains booked, Operator thinks its job is done. But I’ll need somewhere to stay, I remind it—can it book a hotel? It asks for ...

Conciseness Manifesto — LessWrong

How do you feel about conciseness and educational resources? I’m in two minds, on the one hand I am often as someone learning battling ...

An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers ‹ Literary Hub

To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. ...

The Most Famous Lunchtime Question in the History of the World — LessWrong

I have an Enthusiastic Layperson’s Moderate Obsession (yes, it’s an ELMO) with what may be the most consequential lunchtime question in scientific history. In ...

Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell

There’s a trend at the moment of solving online games with programming, let’s do one from the UK called Passport Application, which is developed ...