Apple reports fourth quarter results
Apple periodically provides information for investors on its corporate website, apple.com, and its investor relations website, investor.apple.com. This includes press releases and other information about financial performance, reports filed or furnished with the SEC, information on corporate governance, and details related to its annual meeting of shareholders. This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the […]
Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone
Minecraft HDL is a digital synthesis flow for minecraft redstone circuits. It is an attempt to use industry standard design tools and methods to generate digital circuits with redstone. This file multiplexer4_1.v is a 6 input – 1 output circuit that selects one of the first 4 inputs (a, b, c, d) as the output […]
Rapid Brightening of 3I/Atlas Ahead of Perihelion
Abstract:Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has been approaching its 2025 October 29 perihelion while opposite the Sun from Earth, hindering ground-based optical observations over the preceding month. However, this geometry placed the comet within the fields of view of several space-based solar coronagraphs and heliospheric imagers, enabling its continued observation during its final approach toward perihelion. We […]
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Annals of Inquiry Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives. By Larissa MacFarquhar October 27, 2025 Recent research has linked mental imagery to traits as different as […]
The ear does not do a Fourier transform
Let’s talk about how the cochlea computes! The tympanic membrane (eardrum) is vibrated by changes in air pressure (sound waves). Bones in the middle ear amplify and send these vibrations to the fluid-filled, snail-shaped cochlea. Vibrations travel through the fluid to the basilar membrane, which remarkably performs frequency separation: the stiffer, lighter base resonates with […]
Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US
The IEA has halved its forecast for renewables growth by 2030 in the US to around 250 GW as a result of Trump’s policies. Analysts at Carbon Brief estimate the country will emit 7 billion tonnes more CO₂ equivalent by 2030 under Trump’s policies than if the country had met its obligations under the 2015 […]
Qt Creator 18 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 18! Qt Creator 18 adds experimental support for Development Containers and many more improvements.
ZOZO’s Contact Solver for physics-based simulations
A contact solver for physics-based simulations involving 👚 shells, 🪵 solids and 🪢 rods. All made by ZOZO. ✨ Highlights 💪 Robust: Contact resolutions are completely penetration-free. No snagging intersections. ⏲ Scalable: An extreme case includes beyond 150M contacts. Not just one million. 🚲 Cache Efficient: All on the GPU runs in single precision. No […]
Free software scares normal people
Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney Dd I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch, upload, or otherwise do […]
US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
More than 70 countries signed the landmark U.N. Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi this weekend, a significant step in the yearslong effort to create a global mechanism to counteract digital crime. The U.K. and European Union joined China, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and dozens of other nations in signing the convention, which lays out new mechanisms […]