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A century of “shrill”: how bias in technology has hurt women's voices.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-century-of-shrill-how-bias-in-technology-has-hurt-womens-voices…

A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices
Tina Tallon writes about how gendered technological bias and failures in the design of audio technology have affected how women’s voices are perceived in society.

TSMC unveils its process technology roadmap through 2029, aiming to launch a new node yearly for client applications and every two years for AI and HPC (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-…

TSMC unveils process technology roadmap through 2029: A12, A13, N2U announced, A16 slips to 2027
Still no High-NA on horizon.

"Chinese Scientists Develop Cooling Cement Technology that uses no Electricity"
#China #Cement
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Chinese Scientists Develop Cooling Cement Technology that uses no Electricity | Happy Eco News
Cooling cement technology from Chinese scientists reduces building temperatures over 5°C without electricity using radiative cooling while cutting carbon emissions by 25% through modified cement formulations.

Technology is the enemy of degrowth
Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture "We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. That we need to extract these polymetallic nodules at the bottom of the sea so we can create electric batteries to run automobiles without using carbon fuels. But deep-sea mining is such a destructive process." …

Technology is the enemy of degrowth
Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture “We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. Th…

The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/technol

The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.

"Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data" 😱 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca…

Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data
Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy

US farmers are increasingly rejecting multimillion-dollar offers from data center developers; some estimate ~40K acres are needed globally for new AI projects (Niamh Rowe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/21/us-farmers-datacenters

An undergraduate used AI assistants to rewrite leaked source code for Claude Code in a different language, highlighting the uncertainty over copyright and AI (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropic-code-leak-copy…

Leaked Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era
Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore?

Palantir won a three-month, £30K /week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202