
The Atlantic - 1 day 7 hours ago
The "Dead Internet" theory is back.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 8 hours ago
JapanLA, a 20-year-old shop known for selling cute products, has survived the e-commerce disruption by peddling products on TikTok Shop. But after its Sonny Angel dolls exploded in popularity, the store's owner saw the dark side of online auctions.

The Guardian - 1 day 9 hours ago
Want every day to be a good hair day? We tested 22 hair dryers to find the best, from gentle diffusers to high-speed and travel-ready models The best hot brushes, tried and tested by our expert In my years of reviewing beauty tech, it was upgrading my hair dryer that made the biggest difference to my routine. I used to dread hair-wash days: the chore of shampooing, conditioning and rinsing my hair, plus the time and aching arms spent getting it dry again. My clunky, bargain-bucket hair dryer of...

ABC News - 1 day 11 hours ago
The White House website has unveiled Arcade, a collection of five low-resolution video games that promote different aspects of President Donald Trump's agenda...

ABC News - 1 day 13 hours ago
Across the country and up and down the ballot, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras...

BBC - 1 day 16 hours ago
Galaxy Robot Park is a 16,500-square-meter venue in South Korea, with attractions including humanoid robots dancing to K-pop hits.

Newser - 1 day 17 hours ago
OpenAI says its latest creation may be the moment artificial intelligence crosses a significant line, Axios reports. On Thursday it rolled out GPT-6 Astra, which president Greg Brockman described as a "generational leap" and suggested could mark the arrival of artificial general intelligence, telling reporters, "Welcome to the AGI era....

NY Post - 1 day 18 hours ago
Social media users had a field day deriding the list online, calling it "literally just your average Tuesday at an Erewhon hot bar line."...

The New York Observer - 1 day 21 hours ago
After years of resisting major outside investment, Hugging Face is joining Nvidia as open-source models gain momentum against proprietary rivals.

Air and Space - 1 day 22 hours ago
With artificial intelligence and careful modeling of fossilized wings, researchers reproduced how some extinct, katydid-like insects might have made noise...

Air and Space - 1 day 23 hours ago
The floating forest appeared in a well-mapped reservoir in British Columbia. Its presence and vanishing act have puzzled locals and officials at the power utility that operates the lake, but other similar islands exist elsewhere...

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 47 min ago
These alternative screen designs feature matte, anti-glare displays that make static art look just as good as your favorite movie.

Observer - 2 days 51 min ago
Ukraine's president is courting Elon Musk over Starlink access in Russia as questions persist over the SpaceX CEO's ties to Vladimir Putin.

Newser - 2 days 3 hours ago
If your go-to chatbot sputtered Thursday morning, you weren't alone. Three major AI services OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok were hit by overlapping outages, according to tracking site Downdetector. Anthropic said its Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 models were affected, while others have mostly stabilized, Axios reports....

Newser - 2 days 4 hours ago
Tenants in Concord, New Hampshire, say they're paying for low-cost housing with their privacy. The city's public housing authority has installed Minut sensors popular with Airbnb hosts in roughly 300 affordable apartments to flag illegal smoking and loud noise, but the sensors also log motion and Bluetooth signals, creating minute-by-minute...

Vox - 2 days 4 hours ago
Even if this astronomically kooky plan does take off, it may not change much for those of us left on terra firma. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember Nikki Lee made an unlikely pitch: "We're going to get a little out-of-this-world for a second, so just bear with me." Like many of her constituents, Lee did not want Project Blue, a sprawling 290-acre data center...

Variety - 2 days 5 hours ago
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is making a big new bet on an open-source AI future. On Thursday, Huang announced that Nvidia, a major supplier of hardware to power AI applications, reached a deal to acquire Hugging Face which operates a platform for building AI open-source models for $12.93 billion. "Together, we […]...

Sky News - 2 days 5 hours ago
Three directors of a tree-planting company have been jailed after running a 70m investment scam that duped thousands of people, including many pensioners, out of their savings.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 5 hours ago
This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp . In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate, and extend, the electrical cables, fiber optics, and pneumatic hoses supplying them endure severe mechanical stress. Torsional twist, rapid acceleration, and repeated contact with machine structures often lead to premature conductor fatigue, insulation breakdown...

Vox - 2 days 6 hours ago
Even if this astronomically kooky plan does take off, it may not change much for those of us left on terra firma. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember Nikki Lee made an unlikely pitch: "We're going to get a little out-of-this-world for a second, so just bear with me." Like many of her constituents, Lee did not want Project Blue, a sprawling 290-acre data center...

Sky News - 2 days 7 hours ago
A man with end-stage kidney failure was kept off dialysis for nine months after being given a genetically modified organ from a pig.

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 8 hours ago
Faraday Future, a high-end electric vehicle company, is moving its focus to AI and humanoid robots that could aid in education, housework and companionship.