
The Guardian - 21 hours 32 min ago
The UK will phase out traditional home phones by 2027, but the switchover has been stressful for some. How do you feel about the change? UK telecoms companies are retiring traditional landline services and replacing them with internet-based home phone connections. The industry has set a deadline of January 2027 to complete this switch with roughly 3.2 million homes still to move over. While the digital switchover has been straightforward for most households, for some vulnerable customers, such as...

IEEE Spectrum - 21 hours 53 min ago
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Audio Precision . Bluetooth started as a simple wireless connection between a phone and a headset. Since its inception, it has become the invisible scaffolding for music, calls, gaming, and hearing assistance across consumer and professional devices alike. Bluetooth's evolution to support more use cases has been driven not by a single breakthrough but by a steady accumulation of radio innovations, codecs, transport schemes, and power management strategies...

Air and Space - 22 hours 5 min ago
Smithsonian magazine explores some of the many ways to celebrate the nation and looks back at how previous big birthdays were commemorated amid domestic turmoil...

Air and Space - 22 hours 15 min ago
Dizzy Gillespie said his friend Gertrude Abercrombie was able to translate the spirit of jazz music onto a canvas...

Vox - 1 day 1 hour ago
This story was originally published in The Highlight , Vox's member-exclusive magazine. To get access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today . There's something sad about seeing a humanoid robot lying on the floor. Without any electricity, these bipedal machines can't stand up, so if they're powered down and not hanging from a winch, they're sprawled out on the floor, staring up at you, helpless. That's how I met Atlas a couple of months...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
The two companies have been publicly taking jabs at each other as they contend in the race to dominate AI.

The Guardian - 1 day 2 hours ago
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical and often distinctively European alternatives There's not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms , misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data, environmental negligence, tax avoidance, the list goes on. Added to which, Silicon Valley's leaders seem all too keen to cosy up to the Trump administration...

New Scientist - 1 day 3 hours ago
Both boosters and sceptics have strongly held opinions on AI tools like ChatGPT, but after an experiment in vibe coding, I have realised that both camps are wrong, says Jacob Aron...

The Guardian - 1 day 4 hours ago
Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs Mumsnet has launched a campaign to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s featuring health warnings in the style of those on cigarette packets. The deliberately provocative national advertising campaign calls for all social media to be banned for children under the age of 16. The images on billboards and social media make a number of stark statements related to health. Continue reading...

NY Post - 1 day 9 hours ago
In the latest footage captured by the James Webb Telescope, a nebula has been revealed surrounding a dying star.

GeekSpin - 1 day 12 hours ago
Samsung has officially unveiled its latest flagship smartphones at Galaxy Unpacked, introducing the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra. The lineup leans heavily into AI features while refining hardware across the board, with preorders now live ahead of a March 11 release. Pricing starts at $899.99 for the Galaxy S26, rises to $1,099.99 for the […] Read the original article here: Samsung officially unveils the phone with a disappearing screen...

NPR - 1 day 13 hours ago
Scientists have created an AI version of a monkey brain that recognizes images without requiring the massive computing power of existing AI systems.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 14 hours ago
Get total control of your home's entertainment system with a universal remote.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 14 hours ago
TCL is known as the king of budget TVs. Can its new bank-breaking set compete with the best of the best?...

NY Post - 1 day 15 hours ago
"The nuclear taboo doesn't seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans," said Payne, according to specialty magazine New Scientist.

The Atlantic - 1 day 15 hours ago
Someone just put a lot of money on ET.

Vox - 1 day 18 hours ago
No one can be certain where AI is taking us. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Last year, investors worried that AI would crash the economy by making too little money. Now, they fear it will do so by making too much . On Sunday, a little-known financial analysis firm called Citrini Research published a piece of science fiction: A memo dated June 2028, in which its researchers sketch a pocket history of "the global intelligence crisis" an AI-triggered meltdown of the world's...

The New Yorker - 1 day 21 hours ago
But at least the President thinks everything is going great.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 22 hours ago
You only need to walk past a location with an active WiFi network and radio waves WiFi sends out will bounce off you and create an image...

BBC - 1 day 23 hours ago
Wayve says it's confident all cars will one day be autonomous, as it announced more than a 1bn in additional investment.

Variety - 2 days 16 min ago
TikTok’s 2026 Discover List is here, featuring 50 creators to watch from around the world who are making a positive impact, on and off the platform. This year’s list is divided into five categories: educators, foodies, icons, innovators and originators. Those on the list come from a host of different countries, including Indonesia, Nigeria and […]...

BBC - 2 days 1 hour ago
Users of social media - where the marketing campaign has been launched - say it is out of keeping with Gucci's reputation for luxury.

The Next Web - 2 days 2 hours ago
London-based autonomous driving startup Wayve has just closed a major funding round, pulling in roughly $1.5 billion and lifting its valuation to about $8.6 billion. The investment positions the company as one of the United Kingdom's most highly valued AI ventures and marks a shift from research toward real-world deployment. The core of the round […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 2 days 3 hours ago
On March 8, 2026, in honour of International Women's Day, a new edition of SheBuilds on Lovable invited builders from around the world to a 24-hour global, powered by Anthropic. On top of that, participants in the SheBuilds campaign receive $100 in Anthropic API credits and $250 in Stripe fee credits to kickstart their builds […] This story continues at The Next Web...