
The New Yorker - 1 day 8 hours ago
As President Trump's deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation.

Vox - 1 day 8 hours ago
Sarah Jane Pell dives with a spacesuit, in 2016 in Marseille, France, simulating lunar conditions. | Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images Editor's note, April 7, 2026, 5:10 pm ET: The Artemis II mission is conducting experiments that may radically advance our understanding of space medicine. The findings of A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response ( AVATAR ) experiment could help us create personalized medical kits for astronauts, and the Artemis Research for Crew Health & Readiness ( ARCHeR ) study...

GeekSpin - 1 day 9 hours ago
For about 40 minutes yesterday, Artemis II went fully off the grid as the Orion spacecraft named Integrity for this lunar mission slipped behind the Moon and NASA lost contact with the crew in a planned communications blackout caused by the Moon itself blocking radio signals between the spacecraft and Earth. No chats with Mission […] Read the original article here: The private solar eclipse seen by the Artemis II astronauts...

Vox - 1 day 9 hours ago
NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows on April 4, 2026. | NASA via Getty Images The Artemis II space mission is making history. Farthest humans have ever traveled in space? Check. First Black, woman, and Canadian astronauts to make it around the moon? Also check. First time a toilet has made this journey? Big, important check. Because while there are many significant questions about space Is life out there?...

GeekSpin - 1 day 9 hours ago
If you've been feeling the itch to dump your $1,200 smartphone into a lake just to escape the relentless notification pings of Slack and Instagram, SVEDKA's latest “tech” drop is going to speak your language. The vodka brand's might be known for its spirits but its resident Fembot mascot is officially pivoting from AI futurism […] Read the original article here: Vodka brand SVEDKA is selling a $5 flip phone to Gen Z...

BBC - 1 day 9 hours ago
Is there a way to fix AI's problem with trust?...

Observer - 1 day 10 hours ago
New hires from OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Tesla strengthen Project Prometheus's bid to lead industrial A.I. innovation.

New York Times - 1 day 11 hours ago
As tech companies prepare to release new and more powerful A.I. systems in the coming weeks, cybersecurity experts have become increasingly vocal in their warnings that A.I. technologies are fundamentally changing cybersecurity.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 12 hours ago
The smallest accessory can completely change the sound of your record player.

NY Post - 1 day 12 hours ago
According to an end-of-service announcement published on the tech giant's US support website, Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July.

Observer - 1 day 12 hours ago
As generative A.I. tools flood into classrooms and edtech investment accelerates, Preply's Josh Crossick argues that the opportunity A.I. presents is not substitution but liberation, where every learner has access to a great teacher and where intelligent tools handle everything that stands in the way of that relationship.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 15 hours ago
Artificial intelligence harbors an enormous energy appetite. Such constant cravings are evident in the hefty carbon footprint of the data centers behind the AI boom and the steady increase over time of carbon emissions from training frontier AI models . No wonder big tech companies are warming up to nuclear energy , envisioning a future fueled by reliable, carbon-free sources. But while nuclear-powered data centers might still be years away, some in the research and industry spheres are taking action...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 16 hours ago
In late-stage testing of a distributed AI platform, engineers sometimes encounter a perplexing situation: every monitoring dashboard reads "healthy," yet users report that the system's decisions are slowly becoming wrong. Engineers are trained to recognize failure in familiar ways: a service crashes, a sensor stops responding, a constraint violation triggers a shutdown. Something breaks, and the system tells you. But a growing class of software failures looks very different. The system...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 16 hours ago
Picture a highway with networked autonomous cars driving along it. On a serene, cloudless day, these cars need only exchange thimblefuls of data with one another. Now picture the same stretch in a sudden snow squall: The cars rapidly need to share vast amounts of essential new data about slippery roads, emergency braking, and changing conditions. These two very different scenarios involve vehicle networks with very different computational loads. Eavesdropping on network traffic using a ham radio...

NBC News - 1 day 17 hours ago
The Artemis II crew is homeward bound after capturing never-before-seen views of the far side of the moon during their historic flyby. During the unprecedented voyage, the astronauts shared an emotional moment when they proposed naming a newly identified crater after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife who died of cancer in 2020. NBC's Tom Costello reports for TODAY.

NPR - 1 day 21 hours ago
A fascination with AI bots, made with a program called OpenClaw, is sweeping China.