
The Guardian - 1 day 2 hours ago
Our reviewer loved this wake-up light more than any other he's tested it's even knocked his previous best sunrise alarm off the top spot Read the full ranking in our sunrise alarm clock test Since I first tested sunrise alarm clocks last winter, I've come to suspect that there's no such thing as getting up on the wrong side of bed. What we ought to be worried about is waking up on the wrong side of dawn. During summer (and other times of the year, for late risers), the sunrise begins...

NBC News - 1 day 8 hours ago
Dueling protest movements demonstrated in Minneapolis on Saturday, with factions supporting and opposing ICE's presence in the city after a fatal shooting by an ICE agent. NBC News' Shaquille Brewster reports.

Sky News - 1 day 9 hours ago
NASA's enormous rocket that will soon carry astronauts around the moon has reached its launch pad.

ABC News - 1 day 14 hours ago
NASA's giant new moon rocket is on its way to the launch pad...

Newser - 1 day 16 hours ago
Big Tech, Jessica Grose argues, may finally have met a force that can slow it down: being publicly chastised. Writing in the New York Times , the opinion columnist points to Mattel's splashy plan, announced in June, to roll out AI-fueled toys with OpenAI. Outrage ensued, and after months of criticism...

NBC News - 1 day 18 hours ago
Teens in the United States on average spend more than eight hours a day on screen. Now, there is a bipartisan effort to protect kids online with parents and lawmakers convening at a hearing to examine the impact of technology on kids. Reporting for Saturday TODAY, NBC's Julie Tsirkin speaks with kids and lawmakers about how they feel about screen time.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 19 hours ago
The AI data center construction boom continues unabated, with the demand for power in the United States potentially reaching 106 gigawatts by 2035 , according to a December report from research and analysis company BloombergNEF. That's a 36 percent jump from the company's previous outlook, published just seven months earlier. But there are severe constraints in power availability, material, equipment, and perhaps most significantly a lack of engineers, technicians, and skilled craftsmen...

The Atlantic - 1 day 19 hours ago
Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?...

ABC News - 1 day 19 hours ago
NASA's giant new moon rocket is on its way to the launch pad...

The Atlantic - 1 day 20 hours ago
For many women, the bots offer a way to live in a world filled with unsatisfying men.

The Guardian - 1 day 21 hours ago
Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers' of modern AI Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the answer. The figures are staggering: an estimated $2.9tn ( 2.2tn) being spent on datacentres , the central nervous systems of AI tools; the more than $4tn stock market capitalisation of...

Vox - 1 day 21 hours ago
Security forces are seen during a pro-government rally on January 12, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. | Stringer/Getty Images It's difficult to know exactly what is happening in Iran since the government shut down the internet on January 8, plunging a nation of more than 90 million people into digital darkness. Crackdowns against anti-government protesters have led to at least 2,600 deaths, although some estimates put the death toll at upward of 20,000 . According to the US-based Human Rights Activists...

The Next Web - 1 day 22 hours ago
OpenAI's decision to introduce advertisements inside ChatGPT for free users and its new $8 "Go" tier is already shaping up to be one of the most consequential pivots in generative AI's short history. It's not a simple business tweak. It's a reframing of where digital intent, attention, and commercial influence intersect in an age where conversations increasingly replace search bars. OpenAI has not yet started showing ads in ChatGPT, but it plans to begin testing ads in the...

Sky News - 1 day 23 hours ago
A mother who is among a group of British parents suing TikTok after the deaths of five children has described a hearing in America as "deeply painful".