
NBC News - 1 day 6 hours ago
'Popcorn brain' is when someone jumps from one task to another, like watching a movie and then scrolling on Instagram, but is different from ADHD. NBC News' Dr. Akshay Syal talks about who may have it and how to treat it.

Newser - 1 day 7 hours ago
A closely watched lawsuit accusing Meta of fueling a Florida teen's mental health struggles with its addictive platform has ended before it began. Days ahead of the trial's planned start in Los Angeles, the 15-year-old plaintiff, identified as RKC, dropped his remaining claims against Meta, his lawyers said Wednesday, per...

The Guardian - 1 day 9 hours ago
Better-than-expected results come despite delays in release of powerful AI model Gemini Pro Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported double-digit revenue growth for its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday. This is the tech giant's 12th consecutive quarter of massive revenue gains. The better-than-expected results come as investors evaluate how Alphabet's huge spending on AI has affected its bottom line and what its long-term plans are to sustain those enormous investments. The company...

Sky News - 1 day 10 hours ago
Weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to an increased risk of hair loss, according to researchers.

GeekSpin - 1 day 10 hours ago
Have you ever told your boss “Yep, almost done!” while frantically trying to figure out how to do the assignment? If your answer is yes, then you and a million other people are in good company. As it turns out, our future AI overlords are doing the exact same thing. Only this time they are […] Read the original article here: AI models get caught cheating and lying to finish tasks...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 12 hours ago
Our testers love EcoFlow's portable power stations for camping and home backups, but how are the brand's personal power banks?...

Variety - 1 day 12 hours ago
Video giant YouTube, one of the world’s biggest entertainment businesses, continues to turn in double-digit increases in ad revenue. YouTube posted ad sales of $11.06 billion for the second quarter of 2026, up 12.6% year over year. The results exceeded Wall Street analysts expectations for ad revenue of $10.8 billion, per StreetAccount. That doesn’t include […]...

The Atlantic - 1 day 13 hours ago
Ruthless efficiency has its drawbacks.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 14 hours ago
One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones. A later report called it "strange new music." Sounding unlike the familiar Morse dit-dit-dah of enciphered messages sent over the German Enigma network, the "new music" was a rhythmic warble of binary teletype code being transmitted at high speed. Germany's wartime engineers had developed a radically new encryption and transmission system...

Air and Space - 1 day 17 hours ago
People brought large avocado seeds from South America to Central America, kicking off a burst of diversity for the fruit...

Air and Space - 1 day 19 hours ago
A 45-year-old record fell at the annual sporting event, which celebrates Indigenous athleticism and culture with events including the knuckle hop and the Alaskan high kick...

ABC News - 1 day 20 hours ago
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company...

The Conversation - 1 day 20 hours ago
A new mission to save NASA's Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.

The Conversation - 1 day 20 hours ago
By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 22 hours ago
Activists, tech workers and more are sounding the alarm about AI's risks and proposing various solutions to curb technology's risks that include job displacement.

Sky News - 1 day 23 hours ago
The UK's largest onshore windfarm is set to double in generating capacity as part of a massive 1.5bn rebuilding project.