
NBC News - 1 day 12 hours ago
New bombshell A24 documentary "You Can See Everything" draws backlash from a supporter of Elizabeth Holmes' technology after clips of him were in the film, he says, without his permission. Now, he's threatening to sue the filmmakers if they don't apologize. NBC News' Chloe Melas reports.

NBC News - 1 day 13 hours ago
The iPhone Duo went on sale less than a week ago, but some users are already reporting cracks and bright lines across the inner display near the hinge. NBC News' Brian Cheung reports.

NY Post - 1 day 15 hours ago
The world has been plunged into a cyber-security crisis, known as "Black October," which exposed how vulnerable much of the world's online infrastructure is.

NPR - 1 day 15 hours ago
Activists grappled with mistrust in AI to build technical tools for the greater good during a recent hackathon.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 20 hours ago
This article is brought to you by VicOne . A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass. Each response depends on information about the robot or its surroundings: a distance reading, a position estimate, or a stop signal. But what happens when one of those inputs is wrong, and the robot still responds exactly as designed? The mobile robot reads the hallway as clear while someone is still there...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 23 hours ago
Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced content generated with AI. By 2025, an estimated 57 percent of all published academic articles exhibited detectable evidence of large language model (LLM) influence, a massive jump from 12 percent in 2023. What's more, over 12 percent of Nature Communications reviews were found to be completely AI-generated...

GeekSpin - 1 day 23 hours ago
Richard Borcherds, an acclaimed mathematician who won the Fields Medal (often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics) in 1998 and has taught at UC Berkeley for years, has stopped grading homework for correctness. His reason is simple: with AI, he can no longer tell who actually did the work. He told The Daily Californian […] Read the original article here: Top Berkeley professor says grading homework is now pointless...

GeekSpin - 2 days 15 min ago
Have you ever wished you could actually smell what you are looking at while browsing online? While sending scents across the web has long felt like a distant sci-fi dream, researchers have just taken a massive leap forward by developing a way to transmit real aromas digitally. The end of clunky desktop setups Unlike older, […] Read the original article here: New technology detects and sends real aromas over the internet...

GeekSpin - 2 days 1 hour ago
What if your phone plan could give you more than calls, texts, and data? T-Mobile is introducing a new lineup of wireless plans that lets eligible customers choose perks such as Xbox Game Pass, streaming services, and music subscriptions. The move could give gamers a new way to access a huge library of games without […] Read the original article here: T-Mobile adds free Xbox Game Pass to new wireless phone plans...

Vox - 2 days 1 hour ago
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his AI company can drive a "race to the top." Where's the evidence? | Finn Gomez/Getty Images We're living through an AI-fueled " Black October " and things are changing fast. Hackers are using AI to breach countless companies. AI tools have uncovered security flaws that could leave 70 percent of all websites vulnerable. Governments are scrambling to secure their sites . Banks , too. And because cyberhacks can hurt supply chains, some longtime...

Newser - 2 days 2 hours ago
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promoting her new AI assistant called Dazzle, and an interview with the New York Times has inadvertently made her the subject of ridicule. The piece explained that the teacher of Mayer's 10-year-old daughter asked for three bullets on what made the girl special, adding...

Sky News - 2 days 8 hours ago
Owners of Apple's first foldable iPhone have reported problems with the device's screen - just days after the product went on sale.