
ABC News - 23 hours 7 min ago
A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom...

Popular Mechanics - 23 hours 29 min ago
When I first got my hands on these wearable air conditioners, I wasn't sure if they'd keep me cool but they're surprisingly powerful and quiet to boot.

NPR - 23 hours 43 min ago
NPR's HOST HOST speaks with Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer for Hugging Face, an AI company, discusses the recent hacking incident involving ChatGPT.

NPR - 23 hours 59 min ago
Distillation lets AI companies train new models using existing ones. The White House says Chinese firms are using it to gain an edge, raising questions about competition and intellectual property.

BBC - 1 day 14 min ago
What do we need to know about agentic AI?...

Observer - 1 day 2 hours ago
Knox's Irina Denisenko examines how diverging approaches to A.I. regulation in the U.S., E.U. and U.K. are reshaping the global innovation landscape. Denisenko argues that the defining competitive advantage will come from the clarity and predictability companies need to build for the long term.

ABC News - 1 day 4 hours ago
Scientists are alarmed by the British government's decision to cut funding for the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory...

Variety - 1 day 4 hours ago
Magic: The Gathering will travel back to Middle-earth this month with the release of a new set of tabletop gaming cards based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. Variety has the exclusive first look at a card from the collection featuring a key character in the plot against the dragon Smaug. Releasing Aug. 14, "The Hobbit" set will […]...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 7 hours ago
Physicists have been trying to measure the fundamental gravitation al constant for well over two centuries. The current accepted value of big G , as it's known, is 6.67430 10 -11 cubic meters per kilogram per square second. It also has an uncertainty of 0.00015 10 -11 m 3 /(kg s 2 ). As far as constants of the universe go, that's very uncertain. Stephan Schlamminger Schlamminger is a physicist at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Stephan Schlamminger recently completed...

Newser - 1 day 8 hours ago
Anthropic users may be sharing far more than they realize. Chat logs and projects whipped up with the Claude AI chatbot including what appear to be medical reports, clinical trial data with patient names, children's contact details, internal corporate documents, and worker reviews are showing up in Google search results,...

Variety - 1 day 8 hours ago
ABC News is going after true-crime superfans with the launch of the “20/20 True Crime+” subscription tier on Apple Podcasts. The new podcast subscription, available as of Tuesday (July 28), provides ad-free access to all "20/20" content from new and archival episodes and narrative series, as well as early access to new releases and exclusive […]...

The Atlantic - 1 day 22 hours ago
Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

Sky News - 1 day 23 hours ago
Industrial poultry farming has led to a more than 100-fold increase in the spread of a bacteria causing food poisoning, scientists have discovered.

Sky News - 2 days 1 hour ago
Andrew and Tristan Tate are to remain in jail for at least two more weeks as they fight extradition to the UK on rape and sex trafficking charges.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 2 hours ago
An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-agile threats render static library systems ineffective Explore how wartime reserve modes and mode-agile emitters deploy unexpected frequencies, modulation techniques, and hopping schemes that cannot be matched against traditional threat databases, leaving legacy electronic protect, attack, and support...

Sky News - 2 days 4 hours ago
The UK's largest telescope has been put at risk of shutting down after its funding was withdrawn.

Vox - 2 days 9 hours ago
Meta glasses are much maligned. Is it fair? | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The comical charm of Meta's new AI-enhanced, smart glasses is that they're seemingly made for someone unimpressed, perhaps thoroughly, with the way they're experiencing life. Being unhappy with life in its current state is, of course, intrinsically human and a problem that is as old as time. In fairy tales and folklore, the motif ends with a lesson sometimes with the aid of magic, divine punishment...