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Vox - 1 day 8 hours agoDerek Lam has more than 31,000 followers on TikTok and nearly 40,000 on X as of this writing. He is shirtless a lot, he dances a lot, and he is shirtless dancing a lot, which may explain how he got so many fans. His comments are filled with compliments ("beautiful") in different languages ("hombre bello y sensual") and superlatives ("this might be the finest man on the internet") accompanied by different emoji (red hearts, crying laughing, lips). Their responses make it seem...
Ford is recalling more than 741,000 vehicles in the United States due to a transmission issue that may damage the park system, which could increase the risk of a crash or injury. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a report that the recall includes certain Ford F-150,...
Alex Bond speaks about his political views with canvassers from Ground Truth, a door-knocking program organized by Swing Left, a Democratic political group. Canvassers use an A.I.-powered app to record and analyze what voters say.
Vox - 1 day 22 hours agoElon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025. | Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images Historically, being ultra-wealthy meant that there was an obligation to share a chunk of it with the world. Gilded Age industrialists like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie made lasting cultural and philanthropic contributions, many of which still bear their names. But increasingly, our modern billionaires don't seem inclined to follow suit. To show just how little they've given...
Observer - 1 day 23 hours agoBacked by Jeff Bezos, Slate Auto is rethinking how cars are designed and built from the factory floor up to dramatically cut costs and revive domestic production.
The US government is trying to speed up the development of quantum computers so it can have one sooner...
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Air and Space - 2 days 2 hours agoTheir fascinating, intense pieces are being highlighted in new exhibitions this year and their story is chronicled in a recent book...
Several tech company leaders are set to testify to Congress next month about harms to children on their platforms.
Observer - 2 days 2 hours agoWith Prometheus valued at $41 billion, Jeff Bezos is targeting physical A.I. as the next frontier, focusing on real-world engineering and factory systems.
Today, you probably asked a question of a large language model, or accepted a connection suggestion on LinkedIn, or watched a recommended video on YouTube, or took a different route to work based on a traffic prediction from Google Maps. In other words, you probably used artificial intelligence. But what you might not know is how much energy that interaction consumed or why. AI requires processing massive amounts of data, which is usually done in large data centers populated by thousands of GPUs...
In 1839, J.M.W. Turner painted The Fighting Temeraire . The old warship, once a hero of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, glides like a ghost across the canvas, towed by a small steam tug belching smoke on its final voyage to the ship-breakers. The image shows a clear moment of change: sail giving way to steam, and with it, a major shift in power. The ship relied on timber, rope, canvas, and Britain's seafaring towns. The tug depended on coal mines and iron foundries that supplied machine shops...
NPR - 2 days 10 hours agoAn ambitious program to start up new nuclear reactors is bearing fruit. But some are worried about safety shortcuts.
NPR - 2 days 10 hours agoDespite Australia promising tougher penalties for a world-first social media ban for children, a new study indicates that six months in, the policy has barely affected youth access.
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