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Popular Mechanics - 1 day 10 min agoThis entry-level battery backup makes it easy to add short-term emergency power to your desk setup when the lights go out.
The Amazon founder, who now has robotics and space travel companies, thinks AI will create a labour shortage.
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Air and Space - 1 day 1 hour agoLight-activated therapies may offer a solution to slow-healing lesions common in diabetics and burn victims...
Canada's transportation watchdog has delivered a blunt verdict on the fatal Titan submersible dive: The vessel's experimental design and OceanGate's internal culture combined to create the disaster. In a report released Wednesday, the Guardian reports, the Transportation Safety Board said the company failed by falling prey to groupthink and confirmation...
Musicians are accustomed to getting paid each time their creative work is used. Across vinyl/CD sales, streams, radio, cover versions, and those numerous niches like karaoke, there are agreements in place about what "use" means. Underlying this is a simple economic principle: The more something is used, the more money it makes. Generative AI has complicated the definition of use . On the one hand, you could argue that the use of a piece of musical training data happens just once, at the...
GeekSpin - 1 day 4 hours agoIf you thought flip phones were a nostalgia trend, here’s something you probably didn’t have on your 2026 bingo card. Commodore is back with a phone. For anyone who grew up around computers in the 1980s and 1990s, the Commodore name carries serious weight. The company helped bring personal computing into millions of homes, most […] Read the original article here: Iconic 80’s computer brand Commodore is making a comeback...
Some of the people celebrating American excess are not what they seem.
On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds , beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hours. How did they do it? Is there some magical technology or technique that unlocked this performance? How did they beat the significantly better-known Unitree (who reportedly had to supply an ice backpack to try and complete the race without overheating)? My doctoral thesis involved building and controlling...
Vox - 1 day 8 hours agoWith a trillion dollars, Elon Musk could end hunger, house everyone, and help cure cancer. Emphasis on could. | Adam Gray/Bloomberg It's official. Elon Musk is now the world's first-ever trillionaire, after his rocket ship company SpaceX's record-shattering $2 trillion debut on the NASDAQ last Friday. With a mind-numbing net fortune of $1.4 trillion that is growing by the day, Musk is now worth more than the entire economy of Switzerland . He is more than 13 times as wealthy as Bill...
State seeks court order forcing ByteDance to modify its platform and up to $50K in penalties per violation.
A company that creates technologically-advanced prosthetic hands is working to advance bionic hand grip and dexterity technology for humans and robots. NBC News' Steve Patterson reports.
Snap's Chief Executive Evan Spiegel jabbed at rival Meta and explained why he thinks smart glasses represent the "next major leap in computing" at a conference in Long Beach.
NPR - 1 day 22 hours agoThere's been a lot of confusion and disruption about the legal authority the Trump administration has to suspend AI technology.
GeekSpin - 1 day 22 hours agoLondon phone snatchers, the kind who whip past on a bike and grab an iPhone out of your hand, are running into a wall this year. Following a strategic partnership between the city’s Metropolitan Police Service and Apple, robbery numbers have dwindled. Interestingly, the partnership has nothing to do with catching phone thieves and more […] Read the original article here: Apple just made stolen iPhones much harder to sell...
AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we've never seen before.
A new Consumer Reports investigation finds Uber and Lyft customers are often given different fares when they book the same rides at the same time. While Uber and Lyft have long used surge pricing, the new findings are raising questions about whether the apps are using personalized or surveillance pricing based on customers' personal data. NBC's Vicky Nguyen reports for TODAY.
GeekSpin - 2 days 7 hours agoIn late 2024, the Lenovo Tab Plus arrived as a low-cost Android tablet with a little extra namely, an eight-speaker sound system, making it a compelling family entertainment device at just $300. The Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 is now on the way, and for $100 more, there are improvements across the board, including […] Read the original article here: Lenovo is putting a 9-speaker system in a $400 tablet...
Anthropic officials are expected to meet with the White House on Monday after the US government, citing national security concerns, ordered the company to cut off access to its latest AI models.
Vox - 2 days 8 hours agoPresident Donald Trump speaks during a proclamation signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on June 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty Images In a sense, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is getting what he wanted. Amodei has long argued that AI is becoming dangerously powerful and thus, that regulatory restrictions on the technology are urgently needed. In an essay published last week, Amodei wrote that the release of cutting-edge AI models "should be blocked or reversed...
Inspired by Ariel Waldman's docuseries Life Unearthed, columnist Annalee Newitz explores how microscopes, drones and specialised cameras are giving us an unprecedented view of nature from many different vantage points...
A row has broken out over the future of Dartmoor's ponies, with warnings livestock owners may be forced to cull them to hit biodiversity goals.
Stanford's commencement turned into a slow-motion walkout Sunday as Google chief Sundar Pichai began his keynote address . Video captured dozens of grads leaving their seats, some holding signs condemning Google's work with US government agencies, including one that read "ICE spies with Google AI," per the BBC . SFGate reports about...
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