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Apple has seen multiple high-profile departures in 2023. Another executive, Steve Hotelling who is responsible for several innovative technologies used in iPhone, iPad, and even Apple Vision Pro, is set to leave the company.According to a report by Bloomberg, Steve Hotelling is retiring from Apple. However, the Cupertino-based tech giant has yet to announce this move publicly. Hotelling’s name is on hundreds of Apple’s patents and is considered a driving force behind several innovations at the company.Hotelling’s role at…

Hidden amid its trademark satire of average American life, The Simpsons is riddled with mathematical Easter eggs. The show’s writing staff has boasted an impressive pedigree of Ivy League mathheads who couldn’t resist infusing America’s longest-running sitcom with inside jokes, scattered about like sprinkles on Homer’s doughnuts.The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence on Adapting a PrequelAs early as the opening shot of the show’s second episode, the perpetually one-year old baby, Maggie, stacks her alphabet blocks to…

I was browsing through the many charity shops in Epsom when I chanced upon a three-piece Peter Rabbit dinnerware set ideal for nursery-age children. There were no kittens in pinafores or toads in dinner jackets on this tableware; instead, Peter Rabbit, resplendent in a blue jacket with brass buttons, grabbed the spotlight. PREMIUM Author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866-22 December 1943) (HT Photo) Peter Rabbit took me back way into the past, to a time when I was a child and was gifted an…

The famed composer and his Electronium give us clues to how to reconcile technological progress and human creativity But Scott did this well over 60 years ago, and music legends like Motown founder Berry Gordy — a “formula man” (according to Motown’s head of operations, Guy Costa) who tried to systematize the art and business of music — courted Scott and his Electronium in the hopes of more predictably creating new hit songs. The Electronium caught the attention of Motown’s Berry Gordy. (Photo: Reckless Night Music…

When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Alex Yatsun was living just 30km from the Russian border in the northernmost part of Kharkiv. “When I woke up that day I started living in a completely different reality,” he recalls. “There were bombs falling every hour.”-Yatsun’s family evacuated but he soon returned north to more dangerous territory to volunteer at a medical centre. “But my house was hit by shelling,” he recalls. A photograph on his Instagram shows the aftermath: huge chunks of wall blown out, smashed…

A new invention from researchers at MIT could help the aviation industry shrink its carbon footprint immensely. The invention would finally allow larger aircraft to take full advantage of electronic motors, which has only been possible with small all-electric plans previously. That’s because the megawatt motors needed to lift a larger aircraft off the ground are difficult to create without overloading the plane. Now, though, MIT researchers may have finally found a way to, at the least, make a hybrid system…

Couples in Mesopotamia could have been the first ones smooching as we know it. New research analyzing written records from the area reveals that people in the Cradle of Civilization could have participated in the oldest recorded acts of kissing.The Weirdest Thing Taylor Lautner Was Asked to Sign | io9 InterviewTroels Pank Arbøll from the University of Copenhagen and Sophie Lund Rasmussen from the University of Oxford examined cuneiform writing on clay tablets from Mesopotamiaand found mentions of kissing as early as 2500…

Terafab is an automated digital system featuring robots that build utility-scale solar farms, and its creators claim it’s able to double installation productivity yet reduce cost. Berkeley, California-based Terabase Energy‘s Terafab system features solar panel installation robots that can operate “24/7” on an automated assembly line on the solar farm’s site. The system uses robotic arms that lift and connect solar panels to trackers. The system also features a digital twin (i.e., a virtual…

Scientists in Italy have developed an edible battery that could open new doors for powering ingestible medical devices. Even more intriguing is that the battery is made of basic materials found in almonds and capers — so scientists haven’t had to create an entirely new product to make it work. The use of ingestible devices in medical processes isn’t an unheard-of thing. However, these devices aren’t digestible at the current level, requiring surgical intervention if something goes wrong and they can’t be…

An 18-year-old has created a spiked drink test that aims to be both accessible and affordable. The small device, which changes to a certain color when it detects or doesn’t detect certain drug substances, isn’t widely available. But, after a few long years of working hard on it, Angie Fogarty has accomplished what she set out to do. Fogarty was one of 40 finalists in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search, and she told Smithsonian Magazine that she knew she wanted to focus on something having to do with…