
NPR - 1 day 47 min ago
Swiss scientists have published research showing AI-informed robots can learn how to self correct and teach other robots how to behave. It raises questions of consciousness in artificial intelligence.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
Apple Names Ternus as Next CEO; Tim Cook to Become Chairman...

NY Post - 1 day 1 hour ago
Cook, who has led Apple since 2011, will become the company's executive chairman.

Air and Space - 1 day 2 hours ago
While debating the authorship of "The Baptism of Christ," one of El Greco's final works, art experts long relied on their own analysis of brushstrokes. A new study tapped artificial intelligence to peer at the paint at a microscopic level...

The Guardian - 1 day 4 hours ago
Billionaire owner elects not to attend voluntary interview as part of investigation by French cybercrime unit Elon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with lawyers in Paris, who had summoned the American tech billionaire over an investigation into his social media platform X and AI chatbot Grok. The prosecutors told AFP that they had "taken note of the absence of the first people summoned", without mentioning Musk's name. The billionaire called the French authorities...

The New Yorker - 1 day 8 hours ago
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

NBC News - 1 day 10 hours ago
In the race to build robots that are faster and smarter, big strides are being made in China where a half-marathon pitted more than 100 humanoid robots beside 12,000 real-life runners. The winner, a machine called Lightning, finished 13 miles faster than any human ever, shattering the world record by nearly seven minutes. NBC's Janis Mackey Frayer reports for TODAY.

New Scientist - 1 day 10 hours ago
Pushing against years of scepticism, an analysis suggests quantum computers may offer real advantages for running machine learning and similar algorithms in the near future...

NY Post - 1 day 10 hours ago
Immortal Dragons CEO Boyang Wang told The Post his goal is to invest in "moonshot initiatives," with big risks and big rewards.

Newser - 1 day 11 hours ago
A woman's death and an in-flight fire have triggered an updated recall of a portable wireless phone charger containing a lithium-ion battery. Federal regulators and phone accessory brand Casely this week reannounced the recall of about 429,000 Casely Power Pods 5000mAh MagSafe wireless chargers after a 75-year-old New Jersey...

Vox - 1 day 11 hours ago
Vice President JD Vance holds a highly sophisticated tracking device that the government can use to monitor his every move. | Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images Check your pocket. You're probably carrying a tracking device that will allow the police or even the Trump administration to track every move that you make. If you use a cellphone, you are unavoidably revealing your location all the time. Cellphones typically receive service by connecting to a nearby communications tower or other "cell...

Sky News - 1 day 11 hours ago
Environmental activists staged a renewable energy demonstration at one of US President Donald Trump's golf courses in Scotland.

Newser - 1 day 13 hours ago
Classrooms might be becoming more fun, but it's at the expense of real learning, according to history professor Molly Worthen, who contends that heavy reliance on educational technology is setting children up for failure. In a New York Times opinion piece, Worthen argues that the last decade's push to put...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 9 hours ago
In 1627, a year after the death of the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon , a short, evocative tale of his was published. The New Atlantis describes how a ship blown off course arrives at an unknown island called Bensalem. At its heart stands Salomon's House, an institution devoted to "the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things" and to "the effecting of all things possible." The novel captured Bacon's vision of a science built on skepticism and empiricism...

NY Post - 2 days 16 hours ago
Not only had the number of participating teams increased from 20 to more than 100, but several robot frontrunners were noticeably faster than professional athletes, beating the human winners by more than 10 minutes.