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Vox - 1 day 1 hour agoDemonstrators protest a data center in Tucson, Arizona, in May 2026. | Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via Getty Images On its surface, the national revolt against data centers seems simple: They are a nuisance, and people do not want them in their proverbial backyards. But I haven't been able to let go of the idea that there must be something much deeper driving the backlash against them, and few other subjects have confounded me more than trying to figure out what to think about it. These facilities...
The lawsuit alleges the San Francisco company prioritized speed and commercial gain over safety concerns, including the use of AI for self-harm and violence.
Have I been walking wrong this whole time?!...
To seal spent radioactive fuel underground for 100,000 years. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
GeekSpin - 1 day 14 hours agoA humanoid robot cleaned an apartment in San Francisco last week, which is being called the first time that has happened for a paying customer in the United States. The company behind the job is Gatsby, a robotics startup operating under West Egg Labs. The customer was selected at random from a waitlist and booked […] Read the original article here: The Jetsons future is here, robots will clean your home for $150...
Observer - 1 day 16 hours agoAs A.I. grows more complex, philosophy is becoming a surprising asset in tech. From Anthropic to Google DeepMind, philosophers are helping A.I. companies tackle consciousness, ethics and the risks of advanced systems.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, center, during an event last month in Miami.
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems, which weren't designed with them in mind. One third of the world's Internet users are younger than 18, according to UNICEF , yet these systems shaping their daily lives were built for adults. They were optimized for engagement and designed long before people understood how profoundly digital environments influence children. For engineers and technical professionals, online safety is not an abstract...
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GeekSpin - 1 day 18 hours agoGoogle is trying to release up to 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida. The plan is part of a relatively quiet Google project called Debug, developed by Verily (Google’s parent firm Alphabet’s life sciences arm), and the company is currently waiting on federal approval to take it forward. The pitch, in the project’s own […] Read the original article here: Google plans to release 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida...
Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun conducting the same test on ourselves, writes Max Moser...
Florida's top prosecutor just moved to make OpenAI the next big test case in tech accountability. State Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the maker of ChatGPT of putting growth ahead of user safety and misleading the public about the risks, Politico reports....
A photographer describes how your phone camera flattens and dulls the colors in photos and how to regain an appreciation for the wide spectrum of colors.
Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn't very good at navigating it.
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Nvidia wants your next PC to think for itself. At Taiwan's Computex tech show on Monday, CEO Jensen Huang introduced RTX Spark, a new chip meant to run AI agents directly on laptops and desktops. Developed with Microsoft and Taiwan's MediaTek, the chip is pitched as the backbone of what...
Vox - 2 days 1 hour agoThere are many ways to bomb a college commencement speech. You can tell everyone you composed the talk while high on ayahuasca , like Chris Pan at Ohio State. You can deliver the entirety of your speech in the voices of your incredibly annoying cartoon characters , like Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke at the University of Vermont. You can even, like my graduation speaker in 2001, admonish the graduating class for depending too much on their parents and generally being an ungrateful lot, before later...
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