June 19, 2025

Is this the electric grid of the future?

One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard stalled above eastern Nebraska, pounding the state capital of Lincoln with 60-mile-per-hour winds, driving sleet, and up to eight inches of snow. Lincoln Electric System, the local electric utility, has approximately 150,000 customers. By lunchtime, nearly 10% of them were without power. Ice was…

IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028

June 10, 2025
IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by 2028. It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029.  The proposed machine, named Starling, will consist of a network of modules, each of which contains a set of chips,…

The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

June 10, 2025
The Trump administration’s chainsaw approach to federal spending lives on, even as Elon Musk turns on the president. On May 28, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced he’d be gutting a key office at the Department of Defense responsible for testing and evaluating the safety of weapons and AI systems. As part of a string…

Here’s what’s coming to macOS Tahoe

June 9, 2025
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced the new macOS Tahoe, which comes with a series of updates related to Apple Intelligence, continuity features with the iPhone, and Spotlight search.

From spatial widgets to realistic Personas: All the visionOS updates Apple announced at WWDC 

June 9, 2025
Apple’s updates to VisionOS 26, the operating system powering its mixed reality headset, build off last year’s Apple Vision Pro spatial computer that blends digital content with the physical world. At WWDC, Apple announced a range of updates for both consumer and enterprise customers, from new spatial widgets and content to more realistic Personas and more.