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This letter was originally published in our 2022 annual report.
The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt continues to thrive, serving more…

I’m using this year’s Advent of Code to learn Rust—with the assistance of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. I think one of the most exciting applications of large language …

Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths.

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths.

Engineers infuse a hydrogel structure with a metal solution and then use heat and chemical reactions to leave only the metal behind.

VC scout programmes benefit VCs and the scouts, but not founders. Scouts don't have skin in the game and the optics can be damaging.

One of the SPAC industry’s most well-known sponsors and a would-be serial backer have seen deals worth $10.6 billion go up in smoke in less than an hour.

On December 3, 1982, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke started a company to make visual communication better. It’s still at work on that challenge—and its horizons have never stopped expanding.

The deal is part of Amazon's Shopper Panel program that offers financial rewards to users if they share their receipts and fill out surveys.

The birth of the real-time strategy game

Two new studies suggest that certain tetrahedral arrangements of galaxies outnumber their mirror images, potentially reflecting details of the universe’s birth. But confirmation is needed.

A guide on recreating framer's magical layout animations.

The first Times crossword
Having seen several mind-blowing articles about ChatGPT’s ability (most notably this one), I wondered how ChatGPT would fare solving a cryptic crossword.
I decided to try with an easy one: a Quick Cryptic from The Times. I had…

Smartphones are ubiquitous, so it’s not unreasonable that your landlord would choose a technology that requires you to have one.

There is a tremendous opportunity to develop language around empathy, courage and hope in the midst of a newfound fear of our own vulnerability.