That's been the general contention of the media, which, as a public service, have explained at some length the basics of fast-growing quantities, such as disease, to hammer home how something like a ...

This year Gordon Moore’s venerable law turns 50, a milestone that carries a powerful inflection point. We’re now at the knee of digital technology’s exponential growth curve, where from now on, ...

Humanity’s tools for thought have not just expanded how we think; they’ve reshaped thought itself. This cognitive evolution has followed a remarkable yet predictable trajectory, marked by four ...

As of April 9, more than 15,000 people had died from COVID-19 in the US. That’s a quarter of the number of people that died from the flu during the 2017-18 season. It’s a fraction of the number of gun ...

At the time of writing, the world is in the middle of a global pandemic that is causing untold miseries on hapless millions all over. Cutting across national boundaries, racial differences, wealth ...

DPGAs (digitally programmable-gain amplifiers) are handy signal-processing components whenever ADCs must acquire signals with a wide dynamic range. Without the ability to accommodate input-signal ...

There's a lot of talk right now about how to "flatten the curve" of the coronavirus pandemic. But what does that actually mean — and what will happen if we don't do it? The "curve" in question is the ...

I recently read a couple of articles on artificial intelligence, one an interview with historian, Yuval Noah Harari, and the other written by computer science geek (like me), Tim Urban. I was ...