
Observer - 1 day 44 min ago
CEO Joe Vernachio aims to transform Allbirds into an A.I. player, selling its sneaker assets and chasing growth in GPUs and data infrastructure. From dot-com rebrands to blockchain pivots, struggling companies have long chased the market's favorite buzzword. Allbirds' shift to NewBird AI is the latest test.

Sky News - 1 day 1 hour ago
Almost the entirety of Europe saw above-average temperatures last year, while wildfires burnt a record area and heatwaves struck from north to south, according to an extensive new climate study.

Variety - 1 day 1 hour ago
Kate McKinnon's gloriously unhinged Queen Mortuana from audio series “Heads Will Roll” and her raven sidekick JoJo, voiced by McKinnon’s sister Emily Lynne, are back for more medieval hijinks and absurdist palace intrigue. “Heads Will Roll: Heir Apparent,” from Audible and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video Enterprises, premieres June 25. The series will be available exclusively […]...

New Scientist - 1 day 2 hours ago
Robots can now run a half-marathon faster than humans and are rapidly homing in on the 100-metre sprint record. But why are companies so keen to create speedy robots that have no obvious application in homes or factories?...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 2 hours ago
It started with word, cave, and storytelling, A line scratched on stone walls: "Meet me when the young moon rises." The first protocol for connection. Coyote tales, forbidden scripts, Medieval texts hidden from flame. What lived in Aristotle's lost Poetics II ? Was it God who laughed last, or we who made God laugh? Letters carried by doves, telepathic waves. Then Nikola Tesla conjured radio, electromagnetic pulses across the void, the founding signal of our networked age. Wiener dreamed...

The Atlantic - 1 day 3 hours ago
Sam Altman is pivoting his company to be more like Anthropic.

Variety - 1 day 3 hours ago
Thirty years after Barry Diller established IAC (InterActiveCorp.) as a media holding company, he announced that it will change its name to “People Incorporated” by its Q2 earnings in August. The name change is “to reflect its focus on its People publishing business and its stake in MGM Resorts,” the company said. IAC’s Dotdash Meredith […]...

GeekSpin - 1 day 5 hours ago
Walt Disney World is best known for fairy tales, iconic attractions, and nonstop entertainment but a quieter transformation is unfolding just beyond the castle views. The resort has recently completed a massive solar farm spanning the equivalent of 366 football fields, a project designed to help power its operations with clean energy. Keep reading to discover […] Read the original article here: Disney World quietly built a solar farm the size of 366 football fields...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 6 hours ago
As AI-generated content proliferates, Taylor Swift becomes the latest celebrity to seek trademark protections for her voice and image.

NPR - 1 day 8 hours ago
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Quinn Slobodian, the co-author of the new book, "Muskism: A Guide to the Perplexed."...

Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
Australia says big tech companies have a choice: pay news outlets or pay the taxman. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has unveiled draft legislation that would slap a 2.25% levy on Australian revenue from major digital platforms currently Google, Meta and TikTok unless they strike fresh deals to pay local...

Sky News - 1 day 11 hours ago
The oil and gas producing giant BP has recorded a more than doubling of profits as it benefits from high prices from the Iran war.

NBC News - 1 day 11 hours ago
Secret Service faced challenges evacuating President, Vice President, Cabinet officials and Congressional leaders after gunman rushes D.C. gala.

GeekSpin - 1 day 15 hours ago
Before humans set foot on the Moon again, NASA is preparing to send something far more daring ahead of them a swarm of autonomous drones designed to leap across one of the most dangerous and unexplored regions in space. Under the MoonFall Project, these high-tech drones will hop across the lunar south pole, mapping […] Read the original article here: NASA is sending a fleet of drones to the moon...

NBC News - 1 day 16 hours ago
Jury selection began in Elon Musk's civil trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. NBC News' Brian Cheung explains how both sides will try to make their case and how the jury selection is unfolding.

NY Post - 1 day 17 hours ago
"I kinda like it," one Reddit user responded to news of an attack on Sam Altman. "I don't feel any semblance of sympathy for him."...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 19 hours ago
Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space, taking a novel approach to meeting its insatiable demand for electricity.

Observer - 2 days 1 hour ago
Economist Erik Brynjolfsson breaks down A.I.'s impact on early careers, the rise of vibe-coding and why human agency will define the future of work.

Air and Space - 2 days 4 hours ago
Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is "perhaps the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history still in private hands," the seller says...

The New Yorker - 2 days 6 hours ago
Kris Kristofferson told her he was a poet when they co-starred in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." Her new book tells the story of her life in poetry.

The New Yorker - 2 days 6 hours ago
How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself.

NY Post - 2 days 6 hours ago
Printing industry analysts estimate that a typical home user spends roughly $120 a year on ink. That’s not a typo. Over five years, your “budget” $60 traditional inkjet printer has quietly eaten $600 in consumables. This is the razor-and-blades model perfected. Printer manufacturers sell hardware at or even below cost, then make their margins on...