The Kardashev Scale, created by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev, is helpful when considering such technological advancement by a developing civilization. It has three types: Any type of ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Civilizations need energy to expand. You’ve probably heard of the Kardashev scale, which classifies civilizations based on their ability to generate and use energy (if you’re ...

The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Kai Ryssdal: I’ve been to too many PowerPoint presentations. How did it come to pass that we are now living in the tyranny of PowerPoint?

Creating presentations can often feel like a daunting task, especially when you’re juggling tight deadlines and high expectations. We’ve all been there—staring at a blank PowerPoint slide ...

If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the ...

Scale got its start about seven years ago, at the time focused on pre-generative AI work like building pipelines of labeled image data to help self-driving cars learn to recognize pedestrians ...

Another thought exercise, the Kardashev scale, tries to turn civilizations with Dyson spheres and other advanced energy structures into measurements. The line of thinking goes like this ...

The Federal Reserve reduced interest rates by a quarter percentage point Wednesday and scaled back the number of cuts it expects to make next year. In a split vote, the central bank voted to ...

However, technological change over the last decade has eroded the binary between scale and sophistication. It has also accelerated the proliferation of key elements of the precision strike complex.