
Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
The robotic boat that helped pull US Army helicopter crew members from the waters near the Strait of Hormuz comes from a startup with big-money backing and possibly bigger ambitions. Saronic, founded in 2022 by former Navy SEAL Dino Mavrookas and three partners, built the drone vessel used on Tuesday...

NY Post - 1 day 9 hours ago
Canada is joining a growing global effort to tighten safety protections.

New York Times - 1 day 9 hours ago
Satya Nadella, left, the chief executive of Microsoft, at the Hard Fork Live event in San Francisco on Wednesday.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 10 hours ago
An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy. What Attendees will Learn Why the senior care crisis exceeds incremental automation. Demographic pressure, workforce shortages, and a daily wellness-programming gap all strain traditional care models. What defines a wellness robot as a category. The seven ICAA wellness dimensions and eight properties separate these robots from companion and...

BBC - 1 day 13 hours ago
The record fine comes after around 37.5 million users had their private data exposed.

NBC News - 1 day 18 hours ago
A scanner, microscope and an old-fashioned teardown of Trump Mobile's T1 phone showed that it was almost identical to the HTC U24 Pro. NBC News' Brian Cheung explains.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 23 hours ago
You can save on editor-favorite wireless charging stations, portable power banks, and smart plugs.

Observer - 2 days 32 min ago
Rivian unveils its long-awaited R2 SUV. CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on A.I.-powered autonomy and lower pricing to attract mainstream EV buyers in a cooling U.S. market.

NY Post - 2 days 3 hours ago
Apple hasn't explicitly explained the cutoff. It's estimated that the shift is tied to a chip upgrade, which aligns with Apple's broader vision of greater integration with AI capabilities.

The Atlantic - 2 days 6 hours ago
How companies are gaming the chatbot internet...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 6 hours ago
A man raises his phone as police move into a crowd. The video is shaky, loud, immediate. Within minutes, it is online. Within hours, it is everywhere. This is how accountability works now. Something happens, someone records it, and that footage can show what really happened, sometimes contradicting official accounts. It can empower citizens and create consequences for officials. But the footage's life cycle does not end there. In recent months, civil liberties groups have warned that adding...

Vox - 2 days 8 hours ago
How do we know when the world has changed? On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint scientific paper claiming they had edited human embryonic DNA with more precision than any previous attempt. As a technical achievement, the work is undoubtedly impressive, largely avoiding the errors that had accompanied earlier efforts to gene edit embryos. With further development, such embryonic editing could free future children from fatal or debilitating genetic diseases, but as the veteran science...

The Atlantic - 2 days 9 hours ago
Two former staffers have created a new, perplexing company.

New Scientist - 2 days 9 hours ago
A near miss with a Waymo while cycling through London hasn't changed my optimistic stance on driverless cars, but we can't ever let our guard down, says Matthew Sparkes...

Newser - 2 days 10 hours ago
China just sank a key piece of its AI future into the sea off Shanghai. The world's first wind-powered underwater data center is now running about 6 miles off the city's coast, in a project backed by HiCloud Technology and state-owned China Communications Construction, reports the Guardian . Submerged roughly 30...

Sky News - 2 days 12 hours ago
Prince William will tell London Tech Week today that homelessness rarely happens without warning - and that technology could help to solve the issue.

Newser - 2 days 14 hours ago
Instagram's long-dormant White House account for former President Obama recently came roaring back to life, complete with bizarre, out-of-the-norm posts about President Trump and ones that insisted the White House was "under Shiite control." Per the New York Times , that wasn't Obama making those posts, but a group of hackers...