David GilsonOne apartment’s Wi-Fi dead zones, mapped with a physics equationverified_publisherArs Technica - Casey JohnstonA doctoral student does the math on where his Wi-Fi is, and isn't. A home's Wi-Fi dead zones are, to most of us, a problem solved with guesswork. Your …
David GilsonMetals in your smartphone have no substitutesThe Conversation UK - Andrea Sella and Thomas GraedelA few centuries ago, there were just a few widely used materials: wood, brick, iron, copper, gold and silver. Today’s material diversity is …
David GilsonA first look inside Google's futuristic quantum labverified_publisherThe Verge - Russell BrandomIn May, Google launched the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with hardware from the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave and technical expertise from NASA. It was an ambitious open research project aimed at exploring both the capabilities of quantum computer architecture and the mysteries …