More from Charlotte Hu (Page 5)

IBM quantum eagle chip
Physics

IBM’s latest quantum chip breaks the elusive 100-qubit barrier

By Charlotte Hu

iphone repair
Gear

Apple is opening an online repair shop with original iPhone parts

By Charlotte Hu

bitcoin computer program
Cryptocurrency

A beginner’s guide to how cryptocurrencies work

By Charlotte Hu

YouTube video icon cartoon
Internet

Why YouTube is hiding dislikes on videos

By Charlotte Hu

Facebook meta advertising
Internet

Facebook is making a big change in how it serves ads

By Charlotte Hu

power plants
Climate Change

The truth about carbon capture technology

By Charlotte Hu

robot arms with marionettes
Robots

MIT scientists taught robots how to sabotage each other

By Charlotte Hu

Face detection in photos
Internet

Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

By Charlotte Hu

DIGIT grasps marble
AI

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

By Charlotte Hu

Mark Zuckerberg announces new company name meta
Internet

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

By Charlotte Hu

Caltech AWS quantum computing center
Physics

Amazon’s venture into the bizarre world of quantum computing has a new home base

By Charlotte Hu

Lego construction of house on fire meme
COVID-19

Can I offer you a nice meme in these trying times?

By Charlotte Hu

facebook sign
AI

Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

By Charlotte Hu

Robo text scam
Technology

The FCC is trying to crack down on those annoying spam texts

By Charlotte Hu

iPhone home screen with apps.
Internet

Congress is coming for big tech—here’s how and why

By Charlotte Hu

iPhone 13
Gear

Even the iPhone 13 may not escape the chip shortage

By Charlotte Hu

Leo the Caltech robot
Aviation

LEO the robot can float like a butterfly and balance on a beam

By Charlotte Hu

PayPal offers QR codes as payment on United flights.
Aviation

United fliers can soon use PayPal’s new QR codes to buy chips and booze in the sky

By Charlotte Hu

Routers at a data center.
Internet

Facebook has an explanation for its massive Monday outage

By Charlotte Hu

Facebook login screen.
Internet

What we know about why Facebook went down

By Charlotte Hu

group chats now available across Instagram and Messenger.
Internet

Facebook users can now mix Messenger and Instagram friends in group chats

By Charlotte Hu

Apple iPhone interface
Security

Why you need to update your Apple products’ software ASAP

By Charlotte Hu

Pandu Nayak at Google Search On
AI

Google’s about to get better at understanding complex questions

By Charlotte Hu

PayPal app on phone
Cryptocurrency

PayPal will now pay you interest, and offer other bank-like features

By Charlotte Hu

Pepper the social robot.
AI

Do we trust robots enough to put them in charge?

By Charlotte Hu

vending machine
Technology

Meat vending machines are just the latest way the pandemic has reinvented eating

By Charlotte Hu

Taara's internet towers in Kenya.
Internet

Beams of light—not cables—are carrying the internet across a river in the Congo

By Charlotte Hu

Rendering of mammoth in forest.
Conservation

This CRISPR startup thinks that mammoths can save the Arctic. Is it right?

By Charlotte Hu

Bitcoin accepted sign.
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin is having a bumpy rollout as an official currency in El Salvador

By Charlotte Hu

What exactly is a digital dollar, and how would it work?
Cryptocurrency

What exactly is a digital dollar, and how would it work?

By Charlotte Hu

The international space station.
International Space Station

With a new set of cracks, the ISS is really showing its age

By Charlotte Hu

Origami and octopus inspired robo-arms could one day be used to navigate our body cavities.
Animals

This magnetic robot arm was inspired by octopus tentacles

By Charlotte Hu

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere
Internet

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere

By Charlotte Hu

Tesla's mockup for its future robots.
AI

Tesla wants to make humanoid robots. Here’s their competition.

By Charlotte Hu

A photograph is being taken with an iPhone.
Animals

Your Flickr photos could help scientists keep tabs on wildlife

By Charlotte Hu

T-Mobile's lit up signage.
Security

A T-Mobile data breach could put 30 million social security numbers at risk

By Charlotte Hu

One of Amazon's smaller in-person stores.
Technology

Amazon killed retail stores just to open up its own

By Charlotte Hu

Argo float in the ocean.
Conservation

These free-floating robots can monitor the health of our oceans

By Charlotte Hu

Girl sitting in front of computer is frustrated.
Health

Social media really is making us more morally outraged

By Charlotte Hu

Tuna Robot With Internal Overlay
Animals

A tuna robot reveals the art of gliding gracefully through water

By Charlotte Hu

Library of books.
AI

This new AI tool from Google could change the way we search online

By Charlotte Hu

2022 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck which debuted earlier this year
Electric Vehicles

The Biden administration is going pedal-to-the-metal on electric cars

By Charlotte Hu

The US Capitol
Security

Not a single federal agency received an ‘A’ in a new Senate cybersecurity report card

By Charlotte Hu

Busy intersection in Tokyo, Japan.
Gear

These futuristic shoe inserts could make navigation easier for the visually impaired

By Charlotte Hu

Instagram app on a mobile phone.
Internet

Instagram now lets you manage ‘sensitive content.’ Here’s how to use it.

By Charlotte Hu

Power grids
Security

The Biden Administration just revealed its plan to stop the next Colonial Pipeline hack

By Charlotte Hu

Red-winged blackbird singing.
AI

Birders behold: Cornell’s Merlin app is now a one-stop shop for bird identification

By Charlotte Hu

Venmo app open on mobile phone.
Security

Venmo just made some big privacy changes—here’s what to know

By Charlotte Hu

Girl lying down and smiling widely
Internet

The world uses one emoji more than all others. Here’s why.

By Charlotte Hu

Woman sleeping in bed next to laptop and empty mug
Gear

How Amazon’s radar-based sleep tracking could work

By Charlotte Hu