By: Mitchell Cui, Grade 11 Almost every rechargeable device in your life runs on the same basic idea. Lithium ions shuttle back and forth between two electrodes, swimming through a liquid electrolyte in between. That liquid has carried consumer electronics for three decades, and it is also the reason batteries …

By: Mitchell Cui, Grade 11 For the past few years, most people’s experience of artificial intelligence has been a text box. You type a question, you get an answer, and then you copy that answer somewhere it can actually be useful. That arrangement is changing. The newest systems are designed …

By: Mitchell Cui, Grade 11 Quantum computers have spent decades as more of a promise than a product — locked away in research labs, always “a few years off” from doing anything useful. That story is starting to change. Scientists have been chipping away at one of the field’s toughest …

By Mitchell Cui, Grade 7 For years, the autonomous vehicle industry promised a future that always seemed to be just around the corner. In April 2026, that corner was finally turned. On April 18, Tesla activated fully unsupervised robotaxi rides in both Dallas and Houston, Texas. Unlike earlier pilots that …

By Mitchell Cui, Grade 10 The artificial intelligence industry has never moved faster, spent more money, or attracted more geopolitical scrutiny than it does right now. In the span of a single week in April 2026, the landscape shifted in ways that would have seemed extraordinary even a year ago. …

By: Mitchell Cui Grade 11 The “Dead Internet Theory” used to be a weird joke from a late-night Reddit thread. It used to be just a conspiracy theory of bots talking to other bots. But when you look at the internet in 2026, it doesn’t feel like a joke anymore. …

If you’ve ever lugged a laptop around in your backpack all day, you know the battery is always the heaviest thing in there. It’s literally like carrying around a giant, heavy brick, and it’s just sitting inside the plastic casing. That’s exactly what electric cars and airplanes are like right …

Mitchell Cui 10th Artificial intelligence has a branding problem. Most headlines present it in extremes: either it’s going to save the world or quietly destroy it. The reality is much less dramatic—and yet far more powerful. AI is slipping into daily life so seamlessly that it barely feels like technology …