Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy. Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. (www.wired.com)
Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing (www.wired.com)
Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees (www.wired.com)
The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps (www.wired.com)
If billionaires actually cared about saving the planet, they’d pool their vast wealth and buy everyone a heat pump. Instead of burning planet-warming fossil fuels, these appliances extract warmth from even freezing outdoor air and transfer it into a building, thanks to neat tricks of physics. In the summer, they reverse to act...
The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections (www.wired.com)
Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law.