The Download: a history of brainwashing, and America’s chipmaking ambitions
Zooming in further, there’s one particular type of insulating material placed between the chip and the structure beneath it; this material, called dielectric film,...
The effort to make a breakthrough cancer therapy cheaper
It’s an attractive model. Demand for CAR-T often outstrips supply, leading to long wait times. “There is a growing tension around the limited access...
The cloud is benefiting IT, but not business
“The cloud has tremendous business value!” That’s the battle cry chanted by cloud providers and their allies at every cloud computing conference.You will never...
How to implement database connection resiliency in ASP.NET Core
A high-quality application must be stable, performant, scalable, and reliable. The reliability of an application depends on many factors, but one of the most...
A brief, weird history of brainwashing
Over the following years, in the wake of the Korean War, “brainwashing” grew into a catchall explanation for any kind of radical or nonconformist...
Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok—Right Before Her New Album Drops
In the drawn-out contract battle between TikTok and Universal Music Group, a high-profile exemption has been made for Taylor Swift. A few of her...
JetBrains launches IDE management suite
JetBrains has introduced JetBrains IDE Services, a product suite intended to simplify the management of the company’s IntelliJ-based IDEs, remote development environments, and AI-powered...
This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese...
Thintronics is promising a product purpose-built for the computing demands of the AI era—a suite of new materials that the company claims have higher...
‘Fallout’ Nails Video Game Adaptations by Making the Apocalypse Fun
Nolan tasked Fallout showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet with threading that particular needle. The pair chose to center the series around three protagonists,...
Visual Studio update brings smoother Copilot integration
With the third preview of the planned Visual Studio 2022 17.10, Microsoft has “unified” the GitHub Copilot experience in the IDE, combining Copilot and...
