The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is a podcast hosted by author David Barr Kirtley and produced by Lightspeed Magazine editor John Joseph Adams. The show features conversations about fantasy & science fiction in books, movies, games, and comics, as well as related subjects such as science, history, and critical thinking. Guests... Read more
IBM demonstrated a working quantum computer in 2000 and continues to improve on its technology. Google is working on its own quantum computer and also teamed up with NASA to test D-Wave's system in 2013. Lockheed Martin and the Los Alamos National Laboratory are also working with D-Wave machines. But today's quantum computers still aren't practical for most real-world applications. qubits are frag
Your next smartphone's processor is going to open up some very cool possibilities. The smartphone upgrade wishlist has remained largely unchanged over the last several years. Our handsets should be faster, and thinner, and eke out as much battery life as physics will allow. Qualcomm’s latest processor, the Snapdragon 835, lets device manufacturers check all of those boxes, but it also adds a healt
[On Thursday morning*, November 17**,** James Clapper announced** that** he** had** submitted** his** letter** of** resignation**. He** will** serve** out** the** remaining** 64** days** of** his** term**.*] Public appearances don't come easily to James Clapper, the United States director of national intelligence. America’s top spy is a 75-year-old self-described geezer who speaks in a low, guttur
This morning, at its flagship store in New York, Herman Miller unveiled the newly remastered Aeron chair. When Herman Miller rolled out the original Aeron Chair in 1994, it also launched a new paradigm in furniture design. Its designers, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, built the Aeron according to what the body needs, not what the eye likes. The result was a chair that looked more engineered than de
Google Assistant is the first voice assistant that really works. You can't take a bad picture with the Pixel. So what if it looks like the iPhone? The iPhone looks great, and so does the Pixel. I write about gadgets, which means everyone asks me what laptop or dishwasher or whatever to buy. I struggle with this, because the answer often starts with, "It depends." Unless you ask about a phone. In t
The Elbo chair is the culmination of a collaboration between human and machine. The Elbo chair is unusual piece of furniture. Not for its looks---though the legs, back, and arms bear an uncanny resemblance to bones---but for how it came to be. Arthur Harsuvanakit and Brittany Presten of Autodesk’s generative design lab created the chair, but they didn’t design it. Yes, they wanted the Elbo to refe
Researchers show how they can reverse engineer and even fully reconstruct someone else’s machine learning engine—using machine learning. In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as “black box” systems: Once a machine learning engine has been trained from a collection of example data to perform anything
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow. Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest. Ritch
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