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ForkLog 103 02.10.2025

Death to the Machine

Writer Paul Kingsnorth on how people are building a new Tower of Babel.

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ForkLog 62 13.08.2025

UAE cements its position in digital finance and PropTech

The UAE central bank reported progress on the digital dirham. PropTech is expanding: by 2030 the market is set to grow from $0.61bn to $1.55bn. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are scaling talent and investment, building a Web3/smart‑city ecosystem. The United Arab Emirates is pressing ahead with the digital overhaul of its economy, advancing two […]

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ForkLog 17 02.06.2025

Paradromics Successfully Implants Brain Chip in Human

Neurotechnology firm Paradromics, a competitor to Neuralink, has announced the successful implantation of its first BCI in a human. This was reported by CNBC. The procedure was conducted on May 14 at the University of Michigan on a patient who had previously undergone neurosurgery for epilepsy treatment. The company’s BCI was implanted and removed from […]

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ForkLog 89 16.05.2025

How I Grew Tired of Digging Potatoes and Learned to Love AI Games

Hoping to take the edge off techno-overload, ForkLog contributor Sergey Golubenko decamped to the May countryside. Memories of a gamer youth—and a wish to relive it—came to the rescue of dacha chores. Quickly tired of digging up potatoes and inspecting May beetle larvae, he returned to his computer and discovered a new AI-infused genre. By […]

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ForkLog 45 22.03.2025

MegaETH Developers Launch Public Testnet

The Ethereum-based L2 project MegaETH has launched a public testnet, boasting a claimed throughput of 20,000 TPS. Introducing the MegaETH public testnet. 20,000 tps / 1.7 gigagas/s of pure, single-threaded performance alongside 10 ms blocktimes. You will remember what real-time feels like. pic.twitter.com/HBB3V2Ai78 — MegaETH (@megaeth_labs) March 21, 2025 At the time of writing, around […]

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ForkLog 85 04.03.2025

Can Ethereum outpace Solana? Inside MegaETH, an ambitious new rollup

In June 2024, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, together with venture giant Dragonfly Capital and other backers, invested in an Ethereum-based start-up, MegaETH. It is a layer-2 (L2) solution that claims instant transaction finality and throughput of 100,000 TPS. These are the kinds of figures the Ethereum Foundation (EF) ultimately wants to see at the base […]

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ForkLog 29 31.01.2025

A worm’s neural net on-chain and Pump Science: DeSci steps up a gear

In 2024 crypto exchanges filled up with tokens named after scientific disciplines, chemical compounds, elements and even diseases. Late in the year, industry heavyweights held a meeting with decentralised-science (DeSci) enthusiasts; the segment duly rocketed. This article explores how DAOs are raising funds for anti-ageing research and lunar colonisation—and why funds are trumpeting a new […]

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ForkLog 33 11.12.2024

The non-fungible bubble: how NFTs inoculated the industry against greed

In a comparatively short time, NFTs went from glittering innovation to a largely marginal investment tool. Mass-minted collections, rampant speculation and market manipulation did the rest: by 2024, analysts estimate that 96% of collections were “dead”. Lina Valitova examines what remained after the NFT bubble burst. Why did the bubble inflate? In March 2023, staff […]

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ForkLog 10 29.08.2024

Mind over machine: how AI is transforming brain–computer interfaces

Brain implants, or neuroimplants, are moving rapidly from research into real-world use. Placed on the surface of the brain or attached to its cortex, these devices are opening new possibilities in medicine and neuroscience. The main goal of modern neuroimplants is to create biomedical prostheses that can bypass areas of the brain damaged by stroke […]

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ForkLog 20 20.03.2024

AI chips in 2024: what Sam Altman wants to spend trillions on

Artificial intelligence is already becoming integral to most spheres of activity. Alongside advances in algorithms, hardware—especially specialised chips—plays a decisive role. Modern AI methods depend on computations at a scale that was impossible only a few years ago. Training cutting-edge algorithms can take months and cost tens of millions of dollars. Such colossal compute is […]

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ForkLog 14 29.12.2023

The Marvelous New Phygital World. Is It Still a Marketing Ploy or the Ideology of the Future?

Philosopher Alexandra Tanushina on how the idea of a hybrid material-virtual world arose and when to expect its realisation.

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ForkLog 18 19.12.2023

From the Magnetic Drum to the Babylonian Fish: How Machine Translation Began

Science journalist Yana Khlyustova on how a pacifist polyglot saved the idea of machine translation from an untimely death.

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