Several hundred offshore turbines are producing more electricity on a windy North Sea afternoon than the cable that connects them to the mainland was built to handle. This is not an uncommon circumstance. Tuesday is here. The same wire, which originates from a substation in Lincolnshire, was designed to support a specific rated load based on ambient temperatures that engineers determined from historical weather data decades ago. The specific wind speed at the cable’s position at this exact moment, as well as the fact that cooler air is keeping the cable’s temperature far below its rated limit, are things that…
Author: Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery is a senior editor at glofiish.com, a technology writer, and a true circuit enthusiast. She works in the tech sector, so she does more than just cover it. Taylor works for a smartphone company during the day, which gives her a firsthand look at how gadgets are designed, manufactured, promoted, and ultimately placed in people's hands.Her writing is unique because of this insider viewpoint. Taylor makes the technical connections that other writers overlook, whether she's dissecting the silicon architecture of a new flagship chipset, analyzing the implications of a significant Android update for actual users, or tracking the effects of a new AI model announcement across the mobile industry.Her editorial focus covers every aspect of the current tech stack, including smartphone software and hardware, artificial intelligence (from large language models and generative tools to on-device inference), and the broader innovation trends influencing the direction of the consumer technology sector. She is especially passionate about the nexus of AI and mobile computing, which she feels is still in its most exciting early stages.
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Omicron has been anticipated by the model. The shape of it, not the name, the historical frame, or the particular nation where it would initially be discovered. A computational model trained on the evolutionary history of coronaviruses and the structural constraints of their spike protein had already identified the cluster of mutations that would make something like Omicron particularly dangerous months before the variant that would change the course of the pandemic appeared in southern Africa in November 2021. It had classified those mutations according to how likely they were to provide structural fitness and immunological escape. The majority of…
A printer that hardly resembles the inkjet on your desk is depositing something remarkable onto a scaffold no bigger than a postage stamp in a lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. The substance that is being deposited is living. Human cells, including smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells, and supporting tissue, are suspended in a hydrogel that maintains their position during placement and permits them to reorganize as they settle. The printer travels in exact, preprogrammed arcs. What’s being constructed appears to be the start of a blood vessel under a microscope. The technology being developed at Wyss, Organovo’s San Diego facility,…
A picture of black smoke billowing close to the Pentagon in Washington first surfaced on Twitter on May 22, 2023. The picture appeared authentic. The image featured the visual characteristics of a phone camera rather than a staged production, with a slightly blurred background, constant lighting, and convincing geometry. Pentagon explosions are rare. Markets fluctuated for a few minutes until journalists and fact-checkers linked it to an AI picture generator and the Pentagon verified nothing had happened. The S&P 500 saw a slight decline. Financial markets were affected by a fake image that circulated at scale for around fifteen minutes.…
A model that seemed to match the performance of top US systems at a fraction of the training cost was released in January 2025 by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab. About $600 billion in Nasdaq market value vanished within a day after the revelation reached Western markets. The biggest single-day decline in market capitalization by any firm in stock market history occurred when NVIDIA’s stock dropped by around 17% in a single session. The response was striking and illuminating: the US AI buildout’s whole investment thesis is predicated on the idea that increasing computing, chips, and data center capacity is…
Rows of NVIDIA GPU servers are operating behind locked cage doors in a data center building in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, which was once mostly known for independent coffee shops and craft breweries before tech companies began to move in. Cooling systems are humming at a frequency you can feel more than hear. The servers are performing the same tasks as servers in San Jose, Dublin, and Singapore: processing data, training models, and executing AI workloads. Where the data is stored makes a difference. It remains in Canada. That’s the whole idea. Since the mid-2020s, Canada has been under pressure…
A robotic arm in a national research facility’s chemistry lab is conducting battery experiments at three in the morning while no one is around. This would have seemed nearly comical twenty years ago. Compounds are mixed, charge cycles are measured, failures are noted, and all of this information is fed back into an AI system that will modify the subsequent applicant prior to the start of the midnight shift. When the researchers arrive in the morning, they discover not only the outcomes of the hypotheses from the day before, but also improved recommendations for a dozen more tests that are…
There is no consensus on what precisely qualifies as going too far. The first thing that is important to comprehend about the discussion around artificial general intelligence is that the definitional issue is not a small academic dispute. Every assertion, timeframe, policy proposal, and piece of writing on the topic—including this one—is shaped by this divide. A system that can match human performance on a standardized cognitive benchmark is referred to by some researchers as artificial general intelligence (AGI). Others refer to a system that, without task-specific training, can learn any task that a person can learn and apply that…
The location that used to matter was someplace in Neihu, Taipei’s northeastern technological district, where residential skyscrapers and industrial parks clash and traffic rushes in the stop-start rhythm of a city that developed its roadways more quickly than its planning. For the majority of its existence, E-Ten Information Systems, a company with several hundred employes, had offices there. During the mid-2000s, the company sold hardware to tech enthusiasts in Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia who were interested in things like GPS chipsets in a phone-sized device and HSDPA speeds. The address became irrelevant when Acer showed up with a check…
In a San Francisco federal courtroom on July 20, 2026, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved what plaintiff lawyer Justin Nelson called “the largest known copyright recovery in history.” The writers and publishers whose works Anthropic had acquired from pirate websites and used to teach Claude would get $1.5 billion from Anthropic. About 482,000 works were covered by the settlement. The worth of each book was approximately $3,000. The matter was resolved. Furthermore, very little had been resolved. The Anthropic case started in August 2024 when three writers—memoirist Kirk Wallace Johnson, journalist Charles Graeber, and thriller novelist Andrea Bartz—filed a proposed class…