Technology
Undersea Cables Are the Unseen Backbone of the Global Internet
Robin Chataut Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Quinnipiac University Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind
What a Genetic Match Really Means
Shai Carmi Associate Professor of Population and Statistical Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harald Ringbauer Group Leader, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the
The Cost of Fuel for Wind and Solar Generation Is Zero
Francis Menton cfact.org The effort to increase the percentage of electricity generated by intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar inevitably brings about large increases in the actual price of electricity that must be paid by consumers. The price increases grow and accelerate as the percentage of electricity generated
The Need to Make Digital Health Accessible
Sally Britnell Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Auckland University of Technology Alongside my career path from a PhD in computer science, work as a nurse and ambulance officer and now a university lecturer in nursing, I have become progressively deafblind. As a result, I have personal experience navigating New Zealand’s
The White House Makes Good on Its Antitrust Threats
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is founder, author, and president at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
Thank You for Smoking Facecrack
It was nearly two years ago that I dubbed social media companies the Big Tobacco of the 21st century. I was writing in response to leaked internal research from Facebook and Instagram parent company, Meta, which showed that they were well aware of the harmful effects their products have on
Emissions Rule Will Speed Auto Makers’ Demise
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org For one of the wealthier countries on this planet, America, with 330 million people representing about four per cent of the world’
How AI Messed with Our Human Research
Alexandra Gibson Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington Alex Beattie Research Fellow, School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t have time to read that journal article? AI-powered tools such as TLDRthis
A Step Towards a Borg Future?
Simon Marvin Director, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Allan McCay Academic Fellow, University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Elon Musk’s company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people’s brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone
What Google’s AI Failure Shows
Bret Swanson Bret Swanson is president of the technology research firm Entropy Economics LLC, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and writes the Infonomena Substack. brownstone.org When the stock markets opened last Monday morning, February 26, Google shares promptly fell 4%, by Wednesday were down nearly
AI Chat Bots Will Change the World
David Wojick David Wojick is an independent policy analyst and senior advisor to CFACT. As a civil engineer with a PhD in logic and analytic philosophy of science, he brings a unique perspective to complex policy issues. His specializes in science and technology intensive issues, especially in energy and environment.
Teens Report Feeling ‘Peaceful’ Without Smartphones
As I’ve written before, social media companies are the Big Tobacco of the 2000s. Their own research shows that they know their products are extremely harmful to (mental) health, especially for impressionable children and teens, especially girls — but they continue to market to them anyway. And if social media
A Photo Was Doctored What Is the Big Deal?
T.J. Thomson Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University Rumours and conspiracies have been swirling following the abdominal surgery and long recovery period of Catherine, Princess of Wales, earlier this year. They intensified on Monday when Kensington Palace released a photo of the princess with her
The Weakest Link for EV’s
cfact.org Federal and state energy policies, now pushing electric vehicles on a reluctant public, are running in conflict with other social and environmental restrictions banning vital materials and component imports. As a consequence, U.S. and European auto companies are racing into Chinese rare earth monopoly and other supply
Perhaps You Shouldn’t Trust Google
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com A significant story in the US about the new Google Gemini AI appears to have received little to no mainstream coverage in NZ’s media. Yet the story raises an important question of whether you should trust Google. They’ve been exposed for being woke and