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Vox - 1 day 13 hours agoA horror story of sorts is unfolding in the United States. It goes like this: AI has made it so effortless to access information, and short-form video has made it so easy to entertain ourselves , that nobody reads anymore. If you're familiar with this tale, it's possible, ironically, that you read about it. A viral Atlantic story from earlier this summer put a chilling headline on trend: " The End of Reading Is Here ." Teachers and professors, the magazine reported, don't even...
The "Dead Internet" theory is back.
JapanLA, a 20-year-old shop known for selling cute products, has survived the e-commerce disruption by peddling products on TikTok Shop. But after its Sonny Angel dolls exploded in popularity, the store's owner saw the dark side of online auctions.
ABC News - 1 day 17 hours agoThe White House website has unveiled Arcade, a collection of five low-resolution video games that promote different aspects of President Donald Trump's agenda...
ABC News - 1 day 19 hours agoAcross the country and up and down the ballot, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras...
Galaxy Robot Park is a 16,500-square-meter venue in South Korea, with attractions including humanoid robots dancing to K-pop hits.
OpenAI says its latest creation may be the moment artificial intelligence crosses a significant line, Axios reports. On Thursday it rolled out GPT-6 Astra, which president Greg Brockman described as a "generational leap" and suggested could mark the arrival of artificial general intelligence, telling reporters, "Welcome to the AGI era....
Social media users had a field day deriding the list online, calling it "literally just your average Tuesday at an Erewhon hot bar line."...
The New York Observer - 2 days 4 hours agoAfter years of resisting major outside investment, Hugging Face is joining Nvidia as open-source models gain momentum against proprietary rivals.
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Air and Space - 2 days 4 hours agoWith artificial intelligence and careful modeling of fossilized wings, researchers reproduced how some extinct, katydid-like insects might have made noise...
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Air and Space - 2 days 5 hours agoThe floating forest appeared in a well-mapped reservoir in British Columbia. Its presence and vanishing act have puzzled locals and officials at the power utility that operates the lake, but other similar islands exist elsewhere...
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 7 hours agoThese alternative screen designs feature matte, anti-glare displays that make static art look just as good as your favorite movie.
Observer - 2 days 7 hours agoUkraine's president is courting Elon Musk over Starlink access in Russia as questions persist over the SpaceX CEO's ties to Vladimir Putin.
If your go-to chatbot sputtered Thursday morning, you weren't alone. Three major AI services OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok were hit by overlapping outages, according to tracking site Downdetector. Anthropic said its Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 models were affected, while others have mostly stabilized, Axios reports....
Tenants in Concord, New Hampshire, say they're paying for low-cost housing with their privacy. The city's public housing authority has installed Minut sensors popular with Airbnb hosts in roughly 300 affordable apartments to flag illegal smoking and loud noise, but the sensors also log motion and Bluetooth signals, creating minute-by-minute...
Vox - 2 days 10 hours agoEven if this astronomically kooky plan does take off, it may not change much for those of us left on terra firma. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember Nikki Lee made an unlikely pitch: "We're going to get a little out-of-this-world for a second, so just bear with me." Like many of her constituents, Lee did not want Project Blue, a sprawling 290-acre data center...
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is making a big new bet on an open-source AI future. On Thursday, Huang announced that Nvidia, a major supplier of hardware to power AI applications, reached a deal to acquire Hugging Face which operates a platform for building AI open-source models for $12.93 billion. "Together, we […]...
Three directors of a tree-planting company have been jailed after running a 70m investment scam that duped thousands of people, including many pensioners, out of their savings.
This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp . In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate, and extend, the electrical cables, fiber optics, and pneumatic hoses supplying them endure severe mechanical stress. Torsional twist, rapid acceleration, and repeated contact with machine structures often lead to premature conductor fatigue, insulation breakdown...
Vox - 2 days 12 hours agoEven if this astronomically kooky plan does take off, it may not change much for those of us left on terra firma. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember Nikki Lee made an unlikely pitch: "We're going to get a little out-of-this-world for a second, so just bear with me." Like many of her constituents, Lee did not want Project Blue, a sprawling 290-acre data center...
A man with end-stage kidney failure was kept off dialysis for nine months after being given a genetically modified organ from a pig.
As traditional film and TV production keeps shrinking in Los Angeles, YouTube creators are expanding into Burbank's soundstages.
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