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The machine stood next to a deli counter and towered over cardboard boxes piled near the entrance to the Iconic Magazines store in NoLIta. It… Read More »How AI Influences Astrology

Enlarge / A pregnant woman holds her belly on September 27, 2016. The number of people in the U.S. dying from pregnancy-related causes has more… Read More »U.S. maternal mortality more than doubles in two decades, study estimates

Summer is now in full swing, but along with holiday travel, camping and lazy days, extreme weather has arrived in many parts of the country.… Read More »A technical checklist for the dark side of summer weather

Enlarge / Taranjit Sandhu, India’s ambassador to the United States, signs the Artemis Accords in Washington on June 21. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson watches from… Read More »India, a growing space force, is forging closer ties with NASA

After months of speculation and secrecy, Mark Zuckerberg’s long-rumoured competitor app to Twitter is here. The new app, Threads, was unveiled Wednesday to complement Instagram,… Read More »Topics: What you need to know about Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer’ app

Getty Images | Christopher Furlong A federal judge yesterday ordered the Biden administration to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies, siding… Read More »Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”

Earlier this year, Mark Austin, AT&T’s vice president of data science, noted that some of the company’s developers had started using the ChatGPT chatbot at… Read More »As companies clamor for AI in the workplace, technology companies are rushing to provide it

On July 1, Mississippi and Virginia passed laws requiring adult websites to verify users’ ages, despite attempts by Pornhub to defy the law. Those efforts… Read More »Pornhub is shutting down more US users in continued protest against age verification laws

Edward Fredkin, who, despite never graduating from college, became an influential computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer of artificial intelligence… Read More »Edward Fredkin, 88, who saw the universe as one big computer, dies

Enlarge / Artist’s depiction of the early solar system, which was at risk of a nearby supernova. Stars are thought to form in huge filaments… Read More »Our solar system may have survived a supernova because of the way the sun formed

As the Cold War was winding down, physicist Lewis Branscomb feared that America’s economic and scientific superiority was in danger. Declining scientific literacy and critical… Read More »Field science champion Lewis Branscomb dies at 96

Klotho, the ancient Greek goddess of fate, is responsible for spinning the thread of life. In the human body, a protein of the same name… Read More »One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost

The artist Stephanie Dinkins has long been a pioneer in combining art and technology in her Brooklyn-based practice. In May, she received $100,000 from the… Read More »Black artists say AI is biased, with algorithms erasing their history

Enlarge / A myriad of ways one could react to Gfycat’s shutdown, trending on Gfycat itself right now. Gfycat The internet is becoming a little… Read More »The link rot is spreading: GIF hosting site Gfycat shuts down on September 1

The introduction of ChatGPT has lit a fire among the stocks of companies that produce microchips, the brains of artificial intelligence. Bets on the potential… Read More »Samsung’s AI moment is here, but is it ready?