
IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 56 min ago
Physicists have been trying to measure the fundamental gravitation al constant for well over two centuries. The current accepted value of big G , as it's known, is 6.67430 10 -11 cubic meters per kilogram per square second. It also has an uncertainty of 0.00015 10 -11 m 3 /(kg s 2 ). As far as constants of the universe go, that's very uncertain. Stephan Schlamminger Schlamminger is a physicist at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Stephan Schlamminger recently completed...

Air and Space - 1 day 1 hour ago
Amid mounting tensions between white settlers and the Shoshone, Union soldiers killed an estimated 250 to 500 Shoshone. Today, the Indigenous nation is working to bring "nature back into balance"...

Newser - 1 day 1 hour ago
Anthropic users may be sharing far more than they realize. Chat logs and projects whipped up with the Claude AI chatbot including what appear to be medical reports, clinical trial data with patient names, children's contact details, internal corporate documents, and worker reviews are showing up in Google search results,...

Variety - 1 day 1 hour ago
ABC News is going after true-crime superfans with the launch of the “20/20 True Crime+” subscription tier on Apple Podcasts. The new podcast subscription, available as of Tuesday (July 28), provides ad-free access to all "20/20" content from new and archival episodes and narrative series, as well as early access to new releases and exclusive […]...

Newser - 1 day 7 hours ago
Drones that can shatter glass, blast sirens, and spray pepper gel are headed into school hallways in at least three states. Nine schools in Florida, Georgia, and Colorado will this year debut the nonlethal "Campus Guardian Angel" systems made by Austin-based Mithril Defense, the Washington Post reports. The company is...

GeekSpin - 1 day 13 hours ago
Apple is reportedly teaming up with deferred-payment company Klarna on a new lease-to-own program. The program, called Apple Upgrade, gives customers another way to get their hands on iPhones, Macs, iPads, and Apple Watches without paying the full price upfront. Apple wants you to rent your next iPhone like a car lease According to Bloomberg, […] Read the original article here: Apple now lets customers lease iPhones and Macs...

The Atlantic - 1 day 15 hours ago
Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

Variety - 1 day 17 hours ago
BuzzFeed is slashing its workforce on the heels of the digital media company’s deal to sell a controlling ownership stake to entrepreneur and comedian Byron Allen. The company disclosed that it is laying off about 35% of its current employees and contractors. “The reduction in workforce plan is intended to advance the Company's path towards […]...

Sky News - 1 day 17 hours ago
Industrial poultry farming has led to a more than 100-fold increase in the spread of a bacteria causing food poisoning, scientists have discovered.

Air and Space - 1 day 18 hours ago
The trackway sheds light on how some hominins moved around their environments and with one another...

Sky News - 1 day 19 hours ago
Andrew and Tristan Tate are to remain in jail for at least two more weeks as they fight extradition to the UK on rape and sex trafficking charges.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 20 hours ago
An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-agile threats render static library systems ineffective Explore how wartime reserve modes and mode-agile emitters deploy unexpected frequencies, modulation techniques, and hopping schemes that cannot be matched against traditional threat databases, leaving legacy electronic protect, attack, and support...

Sky News - 1 day 22 hours ago
The UK's largest telescope has been put at risk of shutting down after its funding was withdrawn.

NY Post - 1 day 23 hours ago
After launching the Hyperboot last year, Nike has partnered up with recovery tool brand Hyperice for another pair of footwear.

Vox - 2 days 3 hours ago
Meta glasses are much maligned. Is it fair? | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The comical charm of Meta's new AI-enhanced, smart glasses is that they're seemingly made for someone unimpressed, perhaps thoroughly, with the way they're experiencing life. Being unhappy with life in its current state is, of course, intrinsically human and a problem that is as old as time. In fairy tales and folklore, the motif ends with a lesson sometimes with the aid of magic, divine punishment...