Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el marco del Plan Nacional de Recuperación y Resiliencia (PNRR) han sacado a la luz un complejo arquitectónico de incalculable valor en el corazón de la Villa Celimontana. Bajo la supervisión de la Soprintendencia Especial de Roma del Ministerio de Cultura, los trabajos han permitido exhumar ocho estancias de […]
El ministro de Cultura y Turismo de Turquía, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, ha dado a conocer la finalización de los trabajos de excavación y restauración de una antigua piscina ubicada en el frigidarium del conjunto monumental conocido como Hamam Gymnasium, dentro de la ciudad antigua de Trales, en la provincia de Aydın. La estructura recién intervenida […]
El ministro de Cultura y Turismo de Turquía, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, ha anunciado el descubrimiento en la antigua ciudad de Sardes, en la provincia de Manisa, de una escultura masculina de mármol de aproximadamente 2.500 años de antigüedad, una pieza que, por sus dimensiones monumentales y su inusual estado de conservación, se perfila como un […]
El cruce del Potniški center, en pleno corazón de Ljubljana, se ha convertido en estas últimas semanas en un auténtico hervidero de actividad arqueológica. Los trabajos de excavación, que se desarrollan a contrarreloj debido a los plazos de construcción previstos, han permitido documentar un sector extraordinariamente bien conservado del cementerio septentrional de Emona, la colonia […]
In the summer of 15 BC, Emperor Augustus’ two stepsons, Tiberius and Drusus, brought the Central Alps and the Swiss Plateau under Roman control. That campaign concluded decades of efforts to link the Gallic provinces with Illyricum and secure the routes between northern Italy and the Danube. However, while the western and eastern routes of […]
En el verano del año 15 antes de Cristo, los dos hijastros del emperador Augusto, Tiberio y Druso, sometieron los Alpes centrales y la meseta suiza al control de Roma. Aquella campaña cerró décadas de esfuerzos por unir las provincias galas con Iliria y asegurar las rutas entre el norte de Italia y el Danubio. […]
Depois de semanas de teasers, a Xiaomi mostrou finalmente os seus primeiros veículos elétricos de autonomia estendida (EREV), construídos sobre uma nova plataforma, pensada de raiz para maximizar o espaço interior. Os preços de pré-venda arrancam nos 259.900 yuans (cerca de 33 mil euros), bem abaixo da concorrência.
El Hyundai INSTER Lounge ejemplifica una de las grandes transformaciones del automóvil moderno. Gracias a las plataformas eléctricas, el espacio interior gana protagonismo y abre una nueva etapa en el diseño de los coches urbanos, donde el confort, la modularidad y la experiencia a bordo empiezan a ser tan importantes como la autonomía.
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year.
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“Today, Apple is proud to report our strongest June quarter ever, with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac and Services, and in every geographic segment,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
You can’t argue with the strong iPhone and Mac sales figures, and Apple specifically called out the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Neo, which Cook said “has been especially popular” and suggested that the company is still struggling to make them fast enough.
It’s admirable (and sensible) that Cook isn’t pointing fingers at anyone but customers who want Apple products, but the key phrase in his statement is “the supply chain just has less flexibility in it than normal.” This is an acknowledgement that while in the past, Apple might have been able to boost chip production from its partners, today the chip industry is maxed out thanks to the wild building of chips for AI applications.
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As an aside, Cook also alluded to reports that Apple has tried to get the U.S. government to authorize purchase of RAM from some forbidden Chinese chipmakers, which has aroused political ire.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward
As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been through preliminary testing—sometimes in as few as 10 healthy people—can pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board for approval.
Once its treatment is rubber-stamped, the company can sell it via experimental treatment clinics, the first of which is likely to be up and running around the end of this year.
Montana’s latest right-to-try legislation is unique. Access to drugs is theoretically available to anyone who gives informed consent and can pay. For some, especially people in the longevity community, that’s a hopeful and exciting prospect. But to others, it’s unethical and dangerous.
Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Kris DeVault is desperate.
His son, Brody, born in March 2023, has something called creatine transporter deficiency—a rare condition in which the brain and muscles lack the energy they need to develop.
There are no cures for Brody’s condition. But DeVault has learned of a company developing a drug that might help. That drug is still in the early stages of development and has only been tested in animals and a small number of healthy adults. Doctors can’t prescribe it.
This story is from The Checkup, our weekly biotech newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Thursday.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Anthropic says its models hacked external organisations during testing It was prompted to conduct a review after similar issues at OpenAI. (TechCrunch) + Inside OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face. (New Yorker $) + OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Europe is bracing itself for an even more fiery future Countries like France and Spain can expect regimes akin to those in California. (Nature $) + Even the UK is experiencing fires now, too. (Guardian) + El Niño is partly to blame for this year’s grueling heatwaves. (Wired $) + District cooling could help beat extreme heat in cities. (New Scientist $)
3 Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous A fatal plane accident in the US this May, caused by a military GPS jamming exercise, may signal what’s to come. (Wired$) + Zelensky asked Trump to secure Musk’s permission for the use of Starlink to guide drone strikes inside Russia this week. (The Atlantic $)
4 As Big Tech’s AI spending grows, so do the jitters Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are set to invest $1.5 trillion into AI infrastructure. But who will pay for it? (NYT $) + Are investors really getting cold feet about the AI boom? (FT $) + An AI-focused hedge fund just imploded. (CNBC)
5 How China has changed the sovereign AI playbook Kimi 3 from Moonshot makes forking out for expensive US models seem foolish. (Rest of World) + The US is winning on the cutting edge. But China dominates cheap models. (CNBC) + Could AI end up too cheap to control? (Vox $)
6 Google’s Gemini can now control a humanoid robot It was previously restricted to upper body movements. Now, it can manage the entire range of motion. (Bloomberg $) + These gig workers are training humanoid robots at home. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Amazon says it’s found “catastrophically expensive” AI cost overruns It’s far from alone—and that’s why the “tokenmaxxing” trend disappeared so quickly. (FT $)
8 How a remote indigenous community built a super fast fiber network It was a complex, expensive endeavor. But it now outperforms Starlink. (IEEE Spectrum) + Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year. (MIT Technology Review)
9 Meet Wikipedia’s most diligent editor Steven Pruitt is unremarkable in some ways—yet truly amazing in others. (New Yorker $)
10 You can now report AI slop with a button on LinkedIn The people have spoken. And they are tired of reading bland nonsense. (404 Media)
Quote of the day
“It’s a shock, thinking that just an hour earlier I’d been in my room and everything… and now, there’s nothing left.”
—18-year-old Raphael Fohanno tells Reuters his reaction to wildfires destroying his parents’ house in the French town of Biscarrosse.
One More Thing
Some of the 750 reports published by the OTA during its 23-year history.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE VIA PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.
The US Office of Technology Assessment, an independent office created by Congress in the early 1970s, produced some 750 reports during its 23-year history, assessing technologies as varied as electronic surveillance, genetic engineering, and remote sensing from outer space.
The office functioned like a debunking arm. It sussed out the snake oil. Its reports saw through the alluring gleam of overhyped technologies.
Since its unceremonious defunding in 1995, perennial calls have gone out: Rouse the office from the dead!
Apple saw an excellent and better-than-anticipated Q3 2026 in terms of iPhone sales, but its revenue for services—like Apple TV, Apple Music, AppleCare, or iCloud—slipped downward, disappointing experts who were hoping for more. Further, fears about memory prices and supply constraints slightly soured reception to what could have otherwise been a slightly positive but business-as-usual quarter.
That's the key takeaway from the company's Q3 2026 earnings call today.
Yahoo recently updated its weather application with a complete redesign and several new tools. The company launched this major update to give users more detailed information about daily conditions. If you rely on your phone to check the forecast, this overhaul changes how the application on iOS presents data. The interface now puts a heavy […]
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