
NPR - 1 day 9 hours ago
Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

BBC - 1 day 11 hours ago
What is the role of a teacher once AI arrives in the school classroom?...

NY Post - 1 day 11 hours ago
AI systems are widely known to sometimes "hallucinate" and generate false yet believable information that can quickly erode trust.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 17 hours ago
Floppy disks are several decades old many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom , a technical analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives, led a roughly year-long project preserving floppy disks called " Future Nostalgia ," which concluded in January. Leontien Talboom Leontien Talboom is a technical analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives, where she transfers material from a wide range of storage...

Newser - 1 day 18 hours ago
The debut of a self-driving bus in Gothenburg, Sweden, lasted about an hour before it was rear-ended by a tram. Reuters reports that the e-ATAK electric autonomous bus , built by Turkish manufacturer Karsan and operating as part of a yearlong trial, had just started taking paying passengers on Monday when...

Newser - 1 day 21 hours ago
Pope Leo XIV's first big statement on artificial intelligence lands with a thud, argues Matthew Walther in the New York Times , who finds the new papal encyclical more cautious handbook than bracing manifesto. "Disappointingly measured and cautious," "uninspired and unfocused," and perhaps even "naive," the document treats AI as a...

NBC News - 2 days 1 min ago
NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down real-time vote tallies from the Texas primary runoffs, while giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at election night coverage.