
Vox - 21 hours 48 min ago
New York Assembly member Alex Bores lost his election to represent the state's 12th District. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images New York's congressional primaries on Tuesday were supposed to be the moment AI's top backers definitively proved they could bend US politics to their will. Instead, they left behind a muddy stalemate that only raises more questions about whether their spending can keep pace with an anti-AI backlash. The stage for the battle was set last year, when...

Newser - 22 hours 58 min ago
Apple just made owning a new Mac or iPad noticeably pricier. Early Thursday, the company quietly took its online store offline, then brought it back with laptop and tablet prices up roughly 15% to 25%, per the Wall Street Journal . The entry MacBook Air now starts at $1,299, up...

NPR - 23 hours 3 min ago
Markets have been on edge about the AI investment boom, but earnings from the biggest U.S. memory chip maker, Micron, signal no end in sight to demand for the microchips at the heart of it all.

BBC - 1 day 39 sec ago
Rockstar's sixth game in the franchise is set to be the biggest game release of the year.

NY Post - 1 day 8 hours ago
Artificial-intelligence chatbots show a strongly left-leaning political bias contrary to what leading AI companies claim, according to a bombshell report.

Observer - 1 day 11 hours ago
As leaders gather in Dalian for Summer Davos, Jennie McLaughlin and Sarah Rozenthuler explore why organizations are reaching for technology, planning and agility frameworks while overlooking a more fundamental requirement: purpose.

NPR - 1 day 11 hours ago
The drone-infested battlefields of modern warfare and the need to make troops' loads lighter has the U.S. military looking for new forms of field rations, like ways to make protein on the front lines.

Observer - 1 day 12 hours ago
Meta's new $299 glasses drop Ray-Ban branding and add Kylie Jenner, blending A.I. features with a stronger fashion identity.

Observer - 1 day 13 hours ago
Transform's Will Lowe explores the overlooked infrastructure crisis beneath the public sector's A.I. ambitions. Lowe argues that the greatest risk of government A.I. adoption lies in decades of fragmented data systems that leave institutions unable to see the people they are trying to serve.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 14 hours ago
The HoverAir X1 can take a hit, without hitting your wallet.

Sky News - 1 day 15 hours ago
As Britons face a record-breaking heatwave, climatologists are predicting that these temperatures could become the new normal for summer over the next few decades.

Sky News - 1 day 15 hours ago
Some 85% of under-16s are still using social media in Australia despite a ban being put in place in December, a major new study suggests.

NBC News - 1 day 16 hours ago
Cristiano Ronaldo silenced his critics (at least for one game) with a defiant performance against Uzbekistan, which is ranked 58th in the world by FIFA.

Vox - 1 day 19 hours ago
In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to testify before the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The ostensible subject of the hearings was Oppenheimer's position on the hydrogen bomb, a far more destructive version of the atomic bomb that the US had developed and first tested two years earlier. Oppenheimer, who in the years after the war had become increasingly conflicted about atomic weapons, initially opposed work on the...

NPR - 1 day 19 hours ago
The Switch 2 Star Fox remake comes with high-effort visuals and a fun battle mode, but its campaign feels stuck in the past.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 21 hours ago
5G telecommunications, according to industry hype when 5G first launched in 2019 , was going to be all about buzzy applications like mobile augmented reality and autonomous vehicles . But the surprise plot twist came when replacing home cable internet turned into 5G's most widely adopted new application. Fixed wireless access (FWA) now serves over 14 million U.S. customers , and contributes 28 percent of worldwide wireless traffic . Fixed wireless access is what the term sounds like: broadband...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 5 hours ago
Santa Monica resident Rojia Shahsavani said she witnessed three boys taking selfies and sitting on the open window ledges of a white Waymo that traveled from Santa Monica into West L.A. last Friday.

NBC News - 2 days 5 hours ago
NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to California Institute of Technology Professor John Preskill about President Trump's executive order calling for a quantum computer. Preskill talks about what he hopes comes out of the order and what to look out for.

Newser - 2 days 7 hours ago
China just yanked back a marquee tech title the US has mostly owned for decades, the New York Times reports. A new machine called LineShine, housed in the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, has been named the world's fastest supercomputer after testing more than 20% quicker than El Capitan at California's...