Obsolescence

Issued on: 15/05/2023 - 20:55 France is investigating US tech giant Apple over it allegedly planning for smartphones to become out of date through restricting their…

Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM.Particle physicists use some of the longest equations in all of science.…

First we buy a gadget. For the next few years, the manufacturer releases an occasional software update that fixes bugs and protects us from vulnerabilities. One day, those updates stop coming. According to conventional wisdom, that’s the…