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Open Questions: A Series on What Science and Law Have Not Settled
A new x9m8 series on unsettled questions in AI, consciousness, evolution, biotech and law, each with the evidence, the rival answers and…
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CanaKit Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit Review: Easy Start, Rising Price
CanaKit’s Raspberry Pi 5 kit takes the guesswork out of setup, but board prices have climbed and cheap mini PCs now compete.…
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Is Lab-Grown Meat Real? How Cultivated Meat Is Made and Sold
Cultivated meat has been grown in tanks and sold in a few countries. Here is how it is made, where it is…
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Quantum Error Correction Gets Its Numbers: What Microsoft and Quantinuum’s Nature Paper Shows
A Nature paper from Microsoft and Quantinuum reports logical error rates 11 to 800 times below physical baselines. The gains lean on…
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Will AI Take Your Job? What the Research Shows So Far
Exposure to AI is not the same as job loss. A look at what the IMF, Stanford and Yale analyses actually found,…
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US Drug Manufacturing in 2026: Tariffs, Plant Pledges and When Anything Actually Ships
Tariff policy has set off a wave of US plant pledges, but most open between 2027 and 2034. A plain account of…
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Is Moore’s Law Dead? How Chips Evolved and Where They Go
Moore’s law was a 1965 projection, not a law of physics. Here is what has slowed, what continues, and how engineers are…
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What Was the First Computer? ENIAC, Colossus and the Credit Fight
Babbage, Zuse, Atanasoff, Colossus, ENIAC and the Manchester Baby all have a claim to the first computer. Which one wins depends on…
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Why Did the Dinosaurs Go Extinct? The Asteroid Evidence
A large asteroid struck Mexico about 66 million years ago. Here is the evidence for it, the role of volcanoes, who survived,…
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AirPods Pro 3 Review: Strong ANC, but Fit Decides Everything
Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 earn praise for noise cancelling and iPhone integration, but fit problems and a modest upgrade over the Pro…
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The Erdős Unit Distance Conjecture Falls: What OpenAI’s Model Proved and What Mathematicians Say
An unreleased OpenAI model disproved a 1946 Erdős conjecture about unit distances in the plane. The proof, the outside checks, and the…
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TI-84 Plus CE Review: A Classroom Standard at a Steep Price
The TI-84 Plus CE remains the calculator most US classrooms assume, but it is pricey for aging hardware and now has a…
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PCIe 6.0 SSDs Already Ship in Data Centers. Here’s Why Desktop Drives Are Years Behind
Micron’s 9650 delivers 28,000 MB/s in data centers, yet consumer PCIe 6.0 drives are not expected before late 2027. The signaling, controller…
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