Anne Hartley’s brick house in Ebony, Virginia, overlooks windswept fields, a Methodist church, a general store and the intersection of two country roads, a rural… Read More »Will a dollar general ruin a rural crossroads?
Enlarge / The Buzz is an electric interpretation of the classic 1950 T2. Volkswagen Good news everyone: it’s almost time for Volkswagen ID Buzz. The… Read More »A larger battery and three rows of seats for the VW ID Buzz in the US market
The news A Supreme Court judge on Thursday dismissed a privacy case brought against Meta by the District of Columbia, which had accused the company… Read More »Judge dismisses DC’s privacy lawsuit against Meta
A federal judge in Florida has disqualified himself from a lawsuit brought by Disney against Governor Ron DeSantis, but not before accusing the governor’s legal… Read More »Judge in Disney World case steps aside, but takes down Ron DeSantis lawyers
Why it matters: It takes NASA two trips to get to orbit. To get to and from the space station, NASA currently relies on SpaceX,… Read More »Boeing and NASA delay Starliner launch over parachutes and wiring
Tessa is provided by health technology company X2AI, now known as Cass, founded by entrepreneur Michiel Rauws and provides mental health services via text message.… Read More »An eating disorder chatbot has been suspended for giving harmful advice
Why it matters: Older adults are at higher risk. Each year, about 60,000 adults ages 65 and older are hospitalized with RSV, and about 6,000… Read More »FDA approves Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for adults age 60 and older
Enlarge / The “Hey Google” inscription on the Google pavilion at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas in 2018. These words activate Google… Read More »Google Assistant kills support for third-party note-taking apps
The technology that Substantiation ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia,… Read More »They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft and discovered new potential for AI
When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is usually better. Large language models like ChatGPT and Bard, which generate conversational, original text, improve as… Read More »Would large language models be better if they weren’t so large?
Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debts. They flood local courts with debt collection cases. They garnish patients’ wages.… Read More »Minnesota’s Allina Health System Cuts Off Patients With Medical Debts
BeeBright/Getty Images Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the entrenched code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become… Read More »Millions of PC motherboards have been sold with a firmware backdoor
It was the biggest game of Andre Odeku’s career. A week earlier, the 18-year-old attacker played in the seventh tier of the English football pyramid.… Read More »This AI scouting platform puts football talent spotters everywhere
Find it, aim it, shoot it. The exercise is the same for Ukraine’s air defense crews, as they work around the clock to combat the… Read More »The non-stop work of the Ukrainian air defense: ‘We have no days off’
Even before the recent TikTok bans and concerns about the surgeon general’s mental health, public attitudes to social media have evolved. Many people are moving… Read More »Use alternative apps and shared albums instead of regular social media
