
Sky News - 6 hours 26 min ago
A suspected pollution incident has killed a significant number of fish and other wildlife including eels and birds on a tributary of the River Spey.

Newser - 6 hours 59 min ago
OpenAI's "smartest model yet" is also a decent party planner. At Stripe's developer conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recounted asking GPT-5.5 how it wanted to celebrate its launch. The model reportedly requested a May 5 event at 5:55pm with a toast delivered by its human creators and a...

Sky News - 7 hours 23 min ago
The cosmos is set to put on a show later this week when a celestial event reaches its peak.

ABC News - 8 hours 5 min ago
New Mexico state prosecutors are seeking fundamental changes to Meta's social media apps and algorithms to safeguard children in the second phase of a landmark trial on allegations that platforms such as Instagram have created a public safety hazard...

Newser - 9 hours 48 min ago
The early internet's favorite search engine has gone extinct. Ask.com, born in 1997 as Ask Jeeves, has been shut down by parent company IAC, which quietly ended the search site's run on Friday after nearly 30 years online. A note on the now-static homepage says IAC "made the decision...

The Atlantic - 18 hours 33 min ago
Spirit was awful. But a world without it is worse.

NY Post - 19 hours 2 min ago
Power the Future, a pro-energy advocacy group, is asking Congress to take a closer look at opposition to data centers springing up across the country.

NY Post - 19 hours 22 min ago
Kaelyn Lunglhofer, a student at the University of Tennessee, is suing Quantum Communications and its dating app, "Meete," after the British Virgin Islands-based company ran suggestive ads using stolen TikTok videos to boost its "hook-up" app.

Engadget - 20 hours 1 min ago
Those affected will see their PlayStation Network accounts automatically credited.

Newser - 23 hours 4 min ago
It's another entry in the "AI for good" category: The New York Times' Choe Sang-Hun reports South Korea is aging more rapidly than any other country on Earth, leaving too few doctors and caregivers to serve a population that's more than 20% age 65 and up and so it's leaning...

The Guardian - 23 hours 19 min ago
Exclusive: Biometrics commissioners say face-scanning not as effective as claimed and new laws needed to regulate use How does live facial recognition work and how many police forces use it? Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition Britain's biometrics watchdogs have warned that national oversight of AI-powered face scanning to catch criminals is lagging far behind the technology's rapid growth. With the Metropolitan police almost doubling the number...

The Guardian - 23 hours 19 min ago
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then given no help' to investigate verdicts AI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warn How does live facial recognition work and how many police forces use it? When Ian Clayton, a retired health and safety professional from Chester, popped into Home Bargains one February lunchtime, he was suddenly approached by a stern-looking member of staff. "Excuse me, can you please put everything down...

NPR - 1 day 1 hour ago
In Germany, robotic AI dogs with the faces of tech's most powerful men are on the loose courtesy of American artist Beeple. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on May 1, 2026.)...

The New Yorker - 1 day 17 hours ago
For two decades, the conservative Justices worked to eliminate a bulwark of the civil-rights era.

NY Post - 1 day 18 hours ago
More like Clod AI.

The Guardian - 1 day 19 hours ago
Residents say AI factories with unknown environmental impacts are being rushed into development as proponents argue Australia must ride the data boom or be left behind Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When West Footscray resident Sean Brown takes his 19-month-old boy to the park, their walk passes an imposing new building cheerily spruiked as "Australia's largest hyperscale AI factory", a datacentre called...

Vox - 2 days 3 hours ago
This is what gene therapy can do in 2026. | Svetlana Repnitskaya/Getty Images In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There's no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks later, after a single injection of an experimental gene therapy, the same toddler is back in the same room. The tone plays. The toddler’s head turns toward the sound. And somewhere just off screen, the child's grandfather says his name. The boy turns and looks. He can hear. “When...

Ars Technica - 2 days 3 hours ago
Acoustic fire suppression goes commercial.

The Atlantic - 2 days 3 hours ago
OpenAI made the perfect tool for scammers.

Science Daily - 2 days 5 hours ago
Crabs' famous sideways walk may trace back to a single evolutionary moment 200 million years ago. Researchers found that most modern crabs inherited this trait from one ancestor and never looked back. The movement likely gave them an edge, helping them dodge predators with quick, unpredictable bursts. It's a rare example of a behavior evolving once and then dominating an entire group.

BBC - 2 days 14 hours ago
Harriet Bradshaw finds out how AI is being used to help solve an art history mystery.

NBC News - 2 days 14 hours ago
Dancing robots went viral but what would happen if you took one of them home? NBC News' Joanna Stern decided to find out.