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Thomas the moray eel goes to the doctor

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New 3D silicon chip breakthrough could extend Moore’s Law for years

For decades, the computing industry has followed a simple formula: make transistors smaller and pack more of them onto a chip. That strategy fueled the extraordinary rise in computing power predicted by Moore’s law. But as components approach atomic scales,…

The Dorians And Red Roots

Here’s what we read and liked this week. Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend checking out The Dorians, a novel by Nick Cutter, and Lorenzo De Felici’s comic series, Red Roots. The Dorians…

Welcome to Night Vale host Cecil Baldwin shares his tech pet peeves

Cecil Baldwin’s résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls, narrating the documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, and performing as part of the New York Neo-Futurists theater company. But he is best known as the host of the podcast…

The groupthink boom: what three top VCs really think about the AI frenzy

This week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in Athens — part of the Panathenea festival taking place in the city — I sat down with Niko Bonatsos of Verdict Capital, Andreas Stavropoulos of Threshold Ventures, and Ben Blume of Atomico to…

‘Backrooms’ Takes You Deeper Inside the Internet’s Most Uncanny Horror Myth

The 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons has risen to the top so fast that he’s had zero time to process how far he’s come. “It’s been go, go, go,” Parsons tells WIRED. “Even the tiniest bit of a break,” he says,…

The best new science-fiction books of June 2026 include novels from Adrian Tchaikovsky and M. John Harrison

A father mysteriously slips through time in Joseph Eckert’s The Traveler Mikhail Rudenko / Alamy Writing this as the UK swelters under an unprecedented May heatwave, perhaps it’s small wonder that so many science-fiction authors are currently imagining miserable versions…

Breathing on this chip reveals a secret message

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This tomato-soy juice reduced inflammation in just four weeks

Drinking a specially formulated tomato-soy juice rich in plant compounds linked to health benefits reduced several markers of inflammation in adults with obesity after just four weeks, according to new research. The findings suggest the beverage could serve as a…

CNN Is The Latest Media Company To Sue Perplexity

The cable news channel has accused the AI company of “massive copyright infringement.” Hapabapa/Getty Images CNN has joined the growing ranks of media companies suing Perplexity for copyright infringement. The cable news network has accused the AI search…