
Sky News - 1 day 40 min ago
Some 85% of under-16s are still using social media in Australia despite a ban being put in place in December, a major new study suggests.

Variety - 1 day 42 min ago
Rockstar Games has finally revealed the price for “Grand Theft Auto VI” — and the fact the game will be a “single-player experience” at launch — just ahead of pre-orders opening for the eagerly anticipated game. The standard edition of “GTA 6” will be priced at $79.99 while the “ultimate” version will run players $99.99, […]...

GeekSpin - 1 day 52 min ago
AT&T is seeking to stop repairing damaged sections of its copper telephone lines. In a filing submitted recently, the telecom company asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to discontinue service on affected portions rather than restore them. The exhaustive 500-page filing details more than 500 outages in May alone. AT&T attributed the outages […] Read the original article here: AT&T wants to abandon traditional copper telephone lines...

NBC News - 1 day 1 hour ago
Cristiano Ronaldo silenced his critics (at least for one game) with a defiant performance against Uzbekistan, which is ranked 58th in the world by FIFA.

New York Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has labeled Anthropic, the maker of Mythos 5, a supply chain risk.

Vox - 1 day 4 hours ago
In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to testify before the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The ostensible subject of the hearings was Oppenheimer's position on the hydrogen bomb, a far more destructive version of the atomic bomb that the US had developed and first tested two years earlier. Oppenheimer, who in the years after the war had become increasingly conflicted about atomic weapons, initially opposed work on the...

NPR - 1 day 4 hours ago
The Switch 2 Star Fox remake comes with high-effort visuals and a fun battle mode, but its campaign feels stuck in the past.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 6 hours ago
5G telecommunications, according to industry hype when 5G first launched in 2019 , was going to be all about buzzy applications like mobile augmented reality and autonomous vehicles . But the surprise plot twist came when replacing home cable internet turned into 5G's most widely adopted new application. Fixed wireless access (FWA) now serves over 14 million U.S. customers , and contributes 28 percent of worldwide wireless traffic . Fixed wireless access is what the term sounds like: broadband...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 14 hours ago
Santa Monica resident Rojia Shahsavani said she witnessed three boys taking selfies and sitting on the open window ledges of a white Waymo that traveled from Santa Monica into West L.A. last Friday.

NBC News - 1 day 14 hours ago
NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to California Institute of Technology Professor John Preskill about President Trump's executive order calling for a quantum computer. Preskill talks about what he hopes comes out of the order and what to look out for.

Newser - 1 day 16 hours ago
China just yanked back a marquee tech title the US has mostly owned for decades, the New York Times reports. A new machine called LineShine, housed in the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, has been named the world's fastest supercomputer after testing more than 20% quicker than El Capitan at California's...

NBC News - 1 day 16 hours ago
An AI-generated replica of actor Michael Caine's voice will narrate a new edition of the "Odyssey," produced by the company ElevenLabs. The London-based company, which launched in 2023, has ramped up its efforts to woo talent as it seeks to win over creatives wary of AI.

Variety - 1 day 18 hours ago
Nex and SEGA are partnering up to bring "Sonic Forces" to Nex Playground later this year. The upcoming title introduces Sonic the Hedgehog to the platform in celebration of the franchise's 35th anniversary. "Sonic Forces" (a working title) reimagines the running and action gameplay, offering a replayable, physically active experience. The game is built by […]...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 18 hours ago
Share prices in big AI players such as Nvidia and Micron Technology dropped on Tuesday as investors grow wary about whether massive AI spending will pay off.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 19 hours ago
As labels strike deals with AI start-ups, advocacy groups warn that the artists whose voices and work make those deals valuable are being shut out.

GeekSpin - 2 days 4 hours ago
More than 1,000 workers at General Motors’ flagship Detroit assembly plant were idled, many of them indefinitely, as the company installed 50 robots. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is calling the move exactly what it appears to be: automation is displacing people. The robots in question, known as “cobots” (short for collaborative robots), have […] Read the original article here: Unions are furious after GM replaces 1,000 workers with 50 robots...

Newser - 2 days 4 hours ago
Falun Gong practitioners who say US-based Cisco helped China hunt them down can't press their case in American courts, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, per the Washington Post . In a 6-3 vote, the justices reversed a lower appeals court decision that sided with Falun Gong members, report the New...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 4 hours ago
Imagine sitting down at your desk and logging in for a performance review, with an AI system analyzing the conversation. You've been working long hours, balancing deadlines, and your manager asks how you're doing. You say you're fine, and maybe even smile, but there's a hint of hesitation and your voice wavers. As you shift your posture, your shoulders slump. These are subtle cues that to the human eye might hint at underlying stress. But to an AI model that's been trained only...