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This article is brought to you by Capital One . After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just any bank: Capital One, a financial institution serving over 100 million customers, helping everyday Americans manage their financial lives. For Natarajan, a veteran of DARPA-funded research and academia who had watched machine learning evolve from...
The couple donated millions of dollars to Undue Medical Debt, a national nonprofit that helps pay off medical bills. The gift will affect more than 261,000 Californians in medical debt.
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Air and Space - 1 day 7 hours agoThe inventor had to be persuaded to make the trip from Boston, then balked at the thought of a delay in debuting his device. But history interceded, and his American innovation got its proper accolades...
Apple said it had "never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly".
In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics . My research focused on simulating how special light waves interact in liquid crystals and using simple equations to approximate and understand those interactions. When I look back at my thesis now, liquid crystal technology is old hat, and I imagine my work could be completed with AI assistance in a matter...
IBM's latest chip packs in twice as many transistors as the current state-of-the-art chip by adding a second layer of silicon circuitry...
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Grand Theft Auto VI, the most highly anticipated game of the year, will be released without a physical copy - and that's riled up some gamers.
Vox - 1 day 12 hours agoDemonstrators protest a data center in Tucson, Arizona, in May 2026. | Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via Getty Images This story was originally published in The Highlight . To get access to member-exclusive stories like this every month, become a Vox Member today . 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...
IBM says it has created the world's first known chip tech below 1 nanometre - but it will be some time before it's ready for production.
Vox - 1 day 12 hours agoNew York Assembly member Alex Bores lost his election to represent the state's 12th District. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images New York's congressional primaries on Tuesday were supposed to be the moment AI's top backers definitively proved they could bend US politics to their will. Instead, they left behind a muddy stalemate that only raises more questions about whether their spending can keep pace with an anti-AI backlash. The stage for the battle was set last year, when...
NPR - 1 day 13 hours agoMarkets have been on edge about the AI investment boom, but earnings from the biggest U.S. memory chip maker, Micron, signal no end in sight to demand for the microchips at the heart of it all.
Artificial-intelligence chatbots show a strongly left-leaning political bias contrary to what leading AI companies claim, according to a bombshell report.
Observer - 2 days 1 hour agoAs leaders gather in Dalian for Summer Davos, Jennie McLaughlin and Sarah Rozenthuler explore why organizations are reaching for technology, planning and agility frameworks while overlooking a more fundamental requirement: purpose.
NPR - 2 days 1 hour agoThe drone-infested battlefields of modern warfare and the need to make troops' loads lighter has the U.S. military looking for new forms of field rations, like ways to make protein on the front lines.
Observer - 2 days 3 hours agoMeta's new $299 glasses drop Ray-Ban branding and add Kylie Jenner, blending A.I. features with a stronger fashion identity.
Observer - 2 days 3 hours agoTransform's Will Lowe explores the overlooked infrastructure crisis beneath the public sector's A.I. ambitions. Lowe argues that the greatest risk of government A.I. adoption lies in decades of fragmented data systems that leave institutions unable to see the people they are trying to serve.
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 5 hours agoThe HoverAir X1 can take a hit, without hitting your wallet.
As Britons face a record-breaking heatwave, climatologists are predicting that these temperatures could become the new normal for summer over the next few decades.
Vox - 2 days 9 hours agoIn 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 - 2 days 10 hours agoThe Switch 2 Star Fox remake comes with high-effort visuals and a fun battle mode, but its campaign feels stuck in the past.
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...
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