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Apple could introduce a pricier iPhone ‘Ultra’ in 2024 Emma Roth / Apple could release the high-end device alongside the iPhone Pro and Pro Max. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s exploring the possibility of launching a more expensive iPhone “Ultra” above the iPhone Pro and Pro Max models, according to Apple…
Poem: ‘A Quantum Cento’ Lorraine Schein Edited by Dava Sobel Time crystals could soon escape the laboratory. These quantum systems made of time and light are potential fugitives into our reality. By shining twin laser beams piped into a tiny disk-shaped crystal cavity this new class of matter was created unexpectedly.…
Decoded: Aging Michael Tabb, Tulika Bose What if our body could stay in its prime forever? What if we could be biologically immortal like a hydra—a tiny freshwater creature that can continuously renew its cells? Or what if we could turn back the clock like some jellyfish that never die but revert to an earlier…
The next MacBook Air and iMac could come with a 3nm M3 chip Emma Roth / According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s next-generation M3 chip could arrive later this year or early next year. Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple’s working on a MacBook Air and iMac with an M3 chip built using…
Gene Drives Could Fight Malaria and Other Global Killers but Might Have Unintended Consequences Matthew Cobb Every year more than 600,000 people die from mosquito-transmitted malaria, most of them children under age five. Some insects that are disease vectors, such as mosquitoes, are currently expanding their range around the world, bringing new threats. Genetic engineering…
$99 AirPods could ship as early as next year alongside next-gen AirPods Max Jon Porter / Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes the new models could arrive in the second half of 2024, or the first half of 2025. Apple’s third-generation AirPods, released in 2021.Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The next generation of Apple’s…
Flavor-Enhancing Spoons and Chopsticks Could Make Food Taste Better Saugat Bolakhe Foods high in sugar and salt can be unhealthy, but these additives are too delicious for many of us to give up or reduce in a big way. What if we could somehow enjoy their taste without actually eating them? A student team has…
If Future Humans Terraformed a New Earth, Could They Get It Right? Amy Brady Fiction Future Imperfect What kind of world would humanity build with another chance to do it right? The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz Tor Books, 2023 ($28.99) Great stories often start from a tantalizing…
The U.S. Could Help Solve Its Poverty Problem with a Universal Basic Income Michael W. Howard When the child tax credit, first established in 1997, was expanded for a year in 2021, it was a major political and social win for the country. At a time when the pandemic had worsened many families’ financial distress,…
This Spiritual Tradition Could Be the Most Poetic Bereavement Therapy Ever Documented Piers Vitebsky At the core of religious wonder lies the mystery of life and death, and the world contains more understandings of this mystery than we can ever know. When I first stayed with the Sora Indigenous (or Adivasi) people in the highlands…