Author: Taylor Lowery

Arnold Schwarzenegger declared in 2004 that California will construct a Hydrogen Highway, a network of gas stations that would stretch the length of the state and be prepared to fill a new generation of zero-emission automobiles, while driving a hydrogen-powered Hummer to a news conference. The photo opportunity was captivating. It wasn’t followed through on. After more than 20 years, that initial idea has subtly evolved into something more like to a warning about the disconnect between ambitious clean energy policies and the obstinate economics that underpin it. California has invested more money in hydrogen transportation than any other state.…

The UK House of Lords was asked a question concerning superintelligent AI in January 2026, and the government’s response was noticeably circumspect. While acknowledging that the AI Security Institute itself had used the phrase “catastrophic, irreversible loss of control” in its published conclusions, a minister pointed out that the definition and timeliness of superintelligence are still up for debate. The meeting was courteous. Anyone reading the Hansard transcript directly would see that the fundamental issue was not at all courteous. Days before the government held its first international AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in October 2023, Prime Minister Sunak…

There are several components to the grid that powers the lights in North America. Its three interconnected regional networks—Eastern, Western, and Texas—share digital communications and power flows over thousands of miles of transmission infrastructure owned by hundreds of different businesses, are governed by a patchwork of federal and state authorities, and are increasingly under the scrutiny of adversaries who are more familiar with its architecture than many of the people tasked with safeguarding it. Before its actions were made public, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency verified that the Chinese state-sponsored hacker outfit Volt Typhoon had hacked the IT…

At a Mizuho-organized conference in early June 2026, Pascal Desroches, the chief financial officer of AT&T, said something that sounded more like a negotiation stance than company confidence. He described satellite internet as complementing when questioned about it. not a primary danger. Three weeks later, Oppenheimer produced a report defining low-earth-orbit constellations as a structural threat to the company’s long-term broadband and mobile subscriber growth, downgraded AT&T from Outperform to Perform, and completely withdrew its price target. AT&T’s shares has dropped by about 20% so far this year at the end of July. The order provides some insight into the…

A few years ago, when Loke Marine Minerals bought UK Seabed Resources from Lockheed Martin, it appeared to be a daring move into the deep ocean mineral rush—a private business acquiring rights that a defense contractor had owned since the 1980s without ever using them. The incident served as a helpful reminder that the corporate vehicles seeking this opportunity are frequently more vulnerable than the resources they are hunting when Loke encountered liquidity issues and the assets were transferred once more to a business named Glomar Minerals. Your balance sheet doesn’t matter to the seabed. The money continues to flow…

The Kooranjie Project is located inside the Cobar Basin in the Central West of New South Wales, roughly 500 kilometers northwest of Sydney. It is a remote area of Australia with red earth and sparse scrub that mining geologists have flown over for decades without stopping. After analyzing satellite data, decades’ worth of drilling logs, and geochemical datasets, Earth AI’s program identified a polymetallic prospect worth looking into in that area. Copper, gold, tin, and cobalt. Drilling is scheduled to begin in a few weeks after the announcement of six confirmed prospects in two project areas in March 2025. It…

In certain respects, an AI system that is certain that its response is incorrect is riskier than one that just chooses not to answer. There is fluency in the language. It has an authoritative tone. When there is a citation, it appears authentic enough that someone under time pressure doesn’t take the time to review it. This is the hallucination issue, not that AI occasionally invents things, but rather that it does so in a way that is intended to sound plausible. In an effort to solve it, the software category has subtly developed into something important. Between the AI…

Before continuing, let’s clarify one thing: There isn’t a coordinated trend of Brooklyn coders switching from iPhones to Pocket PCs. Windows Mobile is no longer available. The older Pocket PC branches went off long before Microsoft stopped supporting its last mobile platform in late 2019. A 4G or 5G network cannot be accessed by an iPAQ from the 2003 timeframe running Windows Mobile 2003. A modern website cannot be rendered by its browser. It lacks security fixes, an app store, and a way to access the tools that most developers use every Tuesday afternoon. Running a daily coding workflow on…

The first thing you notice when you enter one of the inner-south aged care facilities in Melbourne where Abi has been assigned is that no one treats her like a machine. She stands 110 cm tall on a spherical wheeled base, around the height of a ten-year-old. Her eyes are alive and expressive, and her frame has purposefully delicate curves with colors that fall halfway between those of a hospital fixture and a children’s toy. She addresses each resident by name. Two weeks earlier, she recalled that one of them had mentioned a daughter who lived in Sydney, so she…

In hardware circles, a certain kind of nostalgia that only makes sense from a distance frequently manifests itself fifteen years after the event. By any realistic modern standards, the E-TEN Glofiish M800, a hefty plastic Windows Mobile device with a sliding keyboard, a 2.8-inch VGA screen, an integrated GPS chip, and a telescoping pen hidden into its side, was not a gorgeous phone. It feels almost hilariously ambitious to hold one now, if you can locate one. Additionally, it seems like something very fascinating to some kind of gadget addict. During the brief period when Windows Mobile pocket PCs masqueraded…