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A plain-language explanation of how a machine learning model forecasts the weather
No equations of fluid motion, just forty years of recorded weather and a very large pattern-matcher. It works surprisingly well.
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Why every public website should pass an accessibility audit, and how to start
Guidelines exist, tools exist and the fixes are mostly cheap. The barrier is knowing where to begin.
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Satellites are now watching every river, farm and forest. The data is mostly free
Earth observation used to belong to governments. Open archives have handed it to anyone with a laptop.
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The internet's plumbing got a new protocol. Most people never noticed
QUIC moved a large share of web traffic off the transport layer that served it for forty years. That is the point.
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Nepal's mobile internet reaches almost everyone. Fixed broadband is another story
Nine in ten people have a mobile connection within reach. Far fewer have a cable to the house, and the gap follows the roads.
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What post-quantum cryptography means for an ordinary website
New encryption standards were finalised in 2024. For most sites the change will arrive quietly, inside the software they already use.
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Digital payments have gone from novelty to default in five years. What comes next
QR codes are on every shop counter. The next step is credit, insurance and savings built on the same rails.
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Open-weight language models have closed most of the gap. What that changes
Models anyone can download now match the commercial systems of a year ago. For small countries and small companies that matters more than the headlines.
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