
Vox - 1 day 4 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 - 1 day 5 hours ago
Two former staffers have created a new, perplexing company.

New Scientist - 1 day 5 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...

GeekSpin - 1 day 6 hours ago
Parents have spent years tracking grades, test scores, attendance, and sports stats. Now a new app wants to measure character, something that is much harder to quantify. Unleashed Brands has launched a family app called KidHub that promises to help parents track qualities like confidence, resilience, kindness, and leadership alongside their kids’ activities. If schools […] Read the original article here: New app gives your kid a character score'...

Newser - 1 day 6 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 - 1 day 8 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.

Sky News - 1 day 9 hours ago
Thousands of men with prostate cancer will be offered a more targeted radiotherapy by the NHS which requires just five doses.

Newser - 1 day 10 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...

BBC - 1 day 18 hours ago
In a rare interview, a senior executive at TSMC discusses the AI boom, the geopolitics of chips and what it means for the price of electronics.

The Atlantic - 1 day 21 hours ago
Driving at night doesn't have to be so blinding.

Vox - 1 day 22 hours ago
A Slate truck at its design studio in Long Beach, California, on December 19, 2025. | Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images In May, Ferrari introduced its first entry into the electric vehicle market: the Luce. With an exterior like a Nissan Leaf , and an interior designed by the guy who designed the iPhone, it received a lot of hate . So, if Ferrari can't make a cool EV, who can? Enter the Slate truck. It's a Jeff Bezos-backed, American-made compact truck with no bells, whistles...

NY Post - 1 day 22 hours ago
At least 25 graduating classes heard some version of the AI spiel not exactly original insight to inspire the next stage of life.

Observer - 1 day 23 hours ago
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has raised $2 billion, hired top A.I. talent and is preparing to release its first model. The former OpenAI executive is betting that frontier A.I.'s next leap will come from systems that interact continuously with people, not around them.

Newser - 2 days 1 hour ago
Anthropic is finally letting the public near an AI system once considered too dangerous to release just not the original version. The company on Tuesday rolled out Claude Fable 5, a heavily constrained spin on its Mythos system, which it previously warned could become a potent hacking aid, the New...

NBC News - 2 days 4 hours ago
Tech giant Apple is announcing a number of new and improved child safety features on iPhones as parents, educators and the government grapple with the effects of technology on young people. Starting in the fall, parents will be able to control which websites are accessible to their kids, restrict app downloads and set limits on how long kids can spend on certain types of apps and block usage during school or mealtimes. NBC's Savannah Sellers reports for TODAY.

Vox - 2 days 5 hours ago
Nick Sadler and his wife had different ideas of what a chill Saturday looked like. He considered the weekend a blank slate no set plans, the family's moment to reset and chill. She was under the impression that time was up for grabs and put a short hangout on their calendar, which Sadler saw as his wife not taking his schedule into account. To settle the argument, he opened up ChatGPT, specifically the group chat function , which allows more than one human to interact with the technology. Sadler...

NPR - 2 days 7 hours ago
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with tech journalist Karen Hao {HOW} about the Pope's recent warnings that AI companies represent a new form of colonialism.