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Air and Space - 23 hours 45 min agoA new study suggests that our solar system's smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 billion years ago...
Vox - 1 day 47 min agoThe new version of SARBOT, Turkey's first armed robot, is demonstrated in Duzce, Turkey, on April 29, 2026. | Omer Urer/Anadolu/Getty Images Who gets to tell the military "no"? That question has become even more important after the Pentagon pushed AI companies to loosen limits on how their technology may be used in war including how much human control must remain over autonomous weapons. When Anthropic said no, it lost a major government deal. OpenAI stepped in, embracing the Pentagon's...
Anthropic's new artificial intelligence model, Opus 5.5, was the first release since the company's chief executive called for the industry to slow down.
Observer - 1 day 3 hours agoWhen valuable works of art move between museums, galleries, shippers and temporary crews, chain of custody and access control are as important as alarms and physical barriers. Acre Security's Kumar Sokka argues that the greatest risks emerge in the gaps between people, systems and moments of responsibility.
Xbox has laid off an additional 268 employees this week as part of its previously announced job-eliminations plan. The new cuts primarily affect Halo Studios, other first-party studios and the XGS management and central functions layer, Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty said in a memo to staff Tuesday. Amid the cuts, the Microsoft-owned gaming […]...
GeekSpin - 1 day 5 hours agoImagine paying your monthly phone carrier subscription and getting free virtual healthcare on top of it. Wouldn't that be great? Well, that is now part of the package you get when you subscribe to one of America's major phone carriers. AT&T is officially stepping into the wellness game, giving eligible wireless and fiber customers free […] Read the original article here: AT&T is giving customers a free $228 healthcare perk...
Observer - 1 day 6 hours agoFor years, the data center boom was financed by sovereign wealth, private equity and bank debt. Now Nscale, Vantage and Humain are testing whether public investors will finance the next phase of A.I. infrastructure.
Welcome to Dead Internet Theory, a Y2K-era event that celebrates a time when social media meant AOL Instant Messenger and when tech evoked excitement rather than dread.
NPR - 1 day 10 hours agoOpposition to data centers has grown into one of the year's major political movements. What is the impact on local jobs and the economy when a data center comes to town?...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 23 hours agoSmart glasses help keep your tech handy so you can spend less time with your head buried in your phone. But they come with privacy concerns.
Air traffic controllers around Washington, DC, just got a new digital assistant, though not everybody's thrilled about it. The Transportation Department on Monday rolled out an AI-based system called SMART at Reagan National, Dulles, and Baltimore-Washington airports, pitching it as a way to spot bottlenecks weeks in advance and cut...
Shortwave radios offer a way to connect one location on Earth to practically anywhere else with minimal infrastructure. But these radios come with some drawbacks a significant one being that, unlike satellite communications, their transmission rates for digital data are typically measured in just hundreds of bits per second . Peter Bloom Peter Bloom is the founder of Rhizomatica, a nonprofit that works with remote, indigenous, and off-grid communities around the world to build shortwave and cellular-communication...
The United States came out of the Revolutionary War victorious. But building a new nation was very different from fighting a war.
NPR - 2 days 10 hours agoPresident Trump has proposed creating an AI task force, similar to Space Force. But he has offered no other details about what it would look like. Tech industry experts are scratching their heads.
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