
The Guardian - 6 hours 35 min ago
The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their inevitability doctrine'. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising Of all the drivers of the populist wave, one of the most powerful is the sense of inevitability that surrounds what we are told is the march of progress. In presenting the future as a fait accompli, it poisons the civic well by dealing us out of the game. While the US clings on to its status as the oldest constitutional democracy...

New York Times - 6 hours 46 min ago
Apple unveiled the HomeView, a seven-inch tablet that will be able to recognize up to six members of a household and change its content based on who is using it.

GeekSpin - 7 hours 34 min ago
When we tested the redesigned Beats Pill back in 2024, we called it one of the most welcome comebacks in tech. With booming audio, amazingly crisp highs, and rugged IP67 waterproofing, it proved Beats wasn’t just recycling a nostalgic product but that they built a legitimately great portable speaker again. Now, the brand is serving […] Read the original article here: Beats just turned its best speaker into a Pok mon collectible . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking here .

Variety - 7 hours 35 min ago
Ethan Hawke is putting on a tinfoil hat for eerie supernatural scripted podcast “Midnight Radio,” slated to hit your earbuds just in time for Halloween. Hawke stars as the host of a conspiracy-themed late-night AM radio show who one night receives a mysterious call from a man claiming to be part of a secret U.S. […]...

Wired - 7 hours 35 min ago
I got an early glimpse of Apple's biggest push into the smart home in years.

Wired - 7 hours 56 min ago
With customizable "faces," this 7-inch smart display is a unique hybrid between an iPhone and an Apple Watch.

Wired - 9 hours 5 min ago
Score a great gift for everyone on your list without breaking the bank. Every one of these gifts comes WIRED-recommended.

Air and Space - 9 hours 35 min ago
At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a "national portrait" reveals what the United States looked like during its bicentennial period...

NY Post - 9 hours 36 min ago
The Post took this sci-fi gadget for a spin in Central Park to see if the future of fitness lives up to the hype.

GeekSpin - 9 hours 50 min ago
While Sony prepares to pull the plug on physical game discs entirely by 2028, sparking fierce backlash from collectors and loyal fans who refuse to see their shelves go bare, its biggest rival is taking a completely different path. Nintendo has firmly committed to keeping cartridges and physical media alive, betting that giving players a […] Read the original article here: Nintendo refuses to ditch physical game media like Sony . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking here .

Newser - 9 hours 59 min ago
Shiny French concept cars weren't the main story at Europe's biggest auto show this year China was. The Wall Street Journal reports that roughly a third of all brands at the Paris Motor Show were Chinese, up from fewer than 10 last time to 20, with companies like BYD, Li...

Newser - 14 hours 28 min ago
Poland is blaming Russia for an arson attack on a Starlink satellite station in September and two Turkish citizens have been arrested in connection with the suspected act of sabotage, reports the AP . The suspects, whose names were not released in line with Polish privacy rules, were arrested in Germany,...

NY Post - 19 hours 2 min ago
An Australian woman has been left paranoid after Apple's iPhone automatically paused her FaceTime call when it detected her sexting.

GeekSpin - 1 day 49 min ago
Amazon has added a way for customers to check whether a text, email, or phone call really came from the company. And all it takes is asking Alexa. The voice feature, part of Alexa for Shopping, arrives as Amazon’s Big Deal Days sale pushes a wave of orders out the door, a time when more […] Read the original article here: New Amazon tool helps shoppers spot fake delivery texts . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking here .

The Conversation - 1 day 1 hour ago
Bones in archaeological sites, ancient rock art, paintings on frescos and vases, written historical records and ethnographic accounts all helped researchers recreate a deep history of people and tuna.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 2 hours ago
If you've ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you're not alone. Gurmeet Saran works to find that answer every day as an engineer at Anthropic in San Francisco, the AI research company behind Claude. The IEEE senior member is developing an infrastructure to understand the mechanics behind the chatbot's behavior and to ensure its underlying architecture produces reliable outputs. Gurmeet Saran Employer...

New York Times - 1 day 3 hours ago
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, revamped his company's A.I. division last year after setbacks in developing the technology.

BBC - 1 day 5 hours ago
Kanishka Narayan said the government will use advanced AI to strengthen the UK against cyber attacks.

NBC News - 1 day 7 hours ago
Hollywood is putting the spotlight on Silicon Valley's tech titans on the silver screen. NBC's Chloe Melas reports.

The Conversation - 1 day 8 hours ago
For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica's environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.

The Conversation - 1 day 8 hours ago
New genomic tools let scientists dig into the family trees of crops like rice, corn and adzuki beans to learn more about how they transitioned from wild plants to domesticated crops.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 10 hours ago
This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to preserve professional athletic style in humanoid robots, and why adaptive, speed-aware control is essential for closing the gap between simulation and real-world deployment. What you will learn about: Why combining a professional athlete's motion style with reliable task performance remains an open challenge in humanoid ball-sports robotics...

ABC News - 1 day 14 hours ago
New streaming entertainment options are arriving this week, including a tribute to Norm Macdonald and a new Marvel series...

Sky News - 2 days 12 hours ago
Malicious use of AI and nuclear conflict pose the biggest threat to human extinction by the year 2100, global experts have warned.