Tens of thousands people have been laid off at Amazon, Meta, Salesforce and other once-gluttonous tech employers in recent months. But one group of workers has been particularly left out: US immigrants holding H-1B visas for workers with special skills. These highly sought-after visas are issued to employer-sponsored immigrants to come to the US, and...

Quantum computers have huge problem. Or, to be more precise, a lot of incredibly tiny ones. These futuristic devices promise to revolutionize everything from the financial industry to drug discovery by harnessing the power of quantum uncertainty—instead of using bits like your laptop or phone, quantum computers use qubits, which means they can perform certain...

Finally a year or so, Netflix and Apple TV+ were the ones vying for the most prestigious movie offerings (congrats, CODA!) but that doesn’t mean other streaming services don’t have great deals. Like Amazon Prime. The streamer was one of the first to round up favorite film festivals and other favorites, and they’re all still...

new year, new MacBooks. With little fanfare, Apple has unveiled updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros that now feature Apple-made M2 ​​Pro and M2 Max chipsets. This is pretty much the only major difference from the 2021 MacBook Pro predecessors. However, this is not the only announcement of new equipment. There’s also a more powerful...

I mean british volt to be the UK’s answer to Tesla. By 2024, the company was to produce hundreds of thousands of lithium-ion batteries a year for the British automotive sector and help rejuvenate the economically disadvantaged north-east of the country. Since its launch in 2019, the company has raised nearly $2.5 billion in funding...

Not every good product can claim to be the best in its category, but there are a few more bags we tested that deserve a mention. Eagle Creek Cargo Hauler 40L for $119: It was my former favorite duffel bag, but it was supplanted by the REI Co-Op Big Haul and dropped down a notch....

Robert Solow The 1987 Nobel Prize winner in economics said that the computer revolution can be seen everywhere except in productivity statistics. I predict that 2023 is the year that will finally change thanks to artificial intelligence. By the end of 2023, AI will quickly become one of the most important factors of production in...

Ted Shepherd, a climatologist at the University of Reading in the UK, knows what it’s like to arrive at a ski resort and find that the snow is somewhere else. This Christmas he went to Switzerland with his wife and her family. “She always loves to ski, but we couldn’t, really,” he says, recalling one...

No no There is no company easier to laugh at than the Texas-based Yeti. My house is full of hilariously overpriced processed foods. The problem starts when these products become the most useful things I own. Just this morning, I used the Camino Carryall to haul my climbing gear to the gym. I had to...

Like many of Internet, PubPeer it’s kind of a place where you might want to be anonymous. There, under randomly assigned taxonomic names like Actinopolispora biscresis (bacteria) and Hoya camphor (flowering plant), “detectives” carefully document errors in the scientific literature. While they write about all sorts of errors, from inept statistics to nonsensical methodology, their...