Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on the video feeds in the command center of Knorr, a research vessel searching the Atlantic seafloor for the world’s most famous shipwreck: the Titanic. Members of the four-person watch team, suspecting the object might be a sunken ship’s boiler, were unable …
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Apple appears to have accidentally revealed a slate of unannounced hardware after internal identifiers surfaced in publicly shared software code, offering unusually concrete clues across multiple product lines. The disclosures, first surfaced by MacRumors, point to next-generation chips spanning Apple’s iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Vision Pro product lines, and help validate past reports and rumors about Apple’s roadmap …
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Jul 23rd 2025 | Albuquerque, Livermore, Los Alamos and Santa Fe Each experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California—a “shot”—lasts just a few billionths of a second. A lot happens in that brief moment, however: 192 laser beams, totalling some 500trn watts, converge in the machine’s target chamber and dump their energy onto a gold cylinder, which is …
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