A Florida man nearly lost his leg to a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection that developed after being bitten by a human during the breakup of… Read More »Florida man contracts flesh-eating infection from human bite during family feud
Sandeep Mathrani would be WeWork’s savior. As a real estate manager, he became the CEO of the troubled office space company in 2020 after a… Read More »WeWork faces more turmoil following CEO departure
Bethesda It’s been about a year now since we got our first glimpse of it Star field‘s “No one Skyrim” game. Today, ahead of the… Read More »Bethesda’s “Starfield Direct” boasts a massive space RPG on a galactic scale
With the new AI-powered Khanmigo, students can chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software. Khan Academy, the popular non-profit online learning… Read More »Not just math quizzes: Khan Academy’s tutoring bot offers playful features
Enlarge / The “Carbon Black” Series S, seen next to the original console. Microsoft As much as we like the Xbox Series S as a… Read More »Microsoft announces new $350 Xbox Series S, 1TB Carbon Black
More Than Likes is a series about social media personalities trying to do positive things for their communities. Before he was New York Nico (handle:… Read More »New York Nico celebrates the colorful side of the city
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As wildfire smoke from Canada continued to drift through the United States, creating unhealthy air quality, air quality alerts were posted in many places across… Read More »AirNow and other apps to help you monitor the air quality in your area
Enlarge / Twitter co-founder Ev Williams gives remarks at Web Summit at Altice Arena on November 8, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. Twitter co-founder Evan “Ev”… Read More »Musk on track to make Twitter the next MySpace or Yahoo, co-founder suggests
De lunes pude echarle un vistazo lo que Apple vislumbra para el futuro de la computación. While using the $3500 Vision Pro, the company’s first… Read More »A first use of Apple’s Vision Pro
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a smiling robot.” Half way through the journey On Wednesday, two German researchers, Sophie Jentzsch and Kristian Kersting, released… Read More »Researchers discover that ChatGPT repeats as many as 25 jokes over and over
The comparison seems to be everywhere these days. “It’s like nuclear weapons,” said a pioneering artificial intelligence researcher. Top AI executives have compared their product… Read More »AI or Nuclear Weapons: Can You Tell These Quotes Apart?
Enlarge / The Bali myna is an endangered and protected species of bird that has been bred by several conservation organizations to maintain its population… Read More »Why we “interview” captive birds to find the best ones to release into the wild
Last month, hundreds of well-known people in the artificial intelligence world signed an open letter warning that AI could one day destroy humanity. “Reducing the… Read More »How can AI destroy humanity?
Zach Gibson/Getty Images Three major Supreme Court decisions in 2022 have each been widely criticized by health experts as threats to public health, but a… Read More »Here’s a rough estimate of how many people recent SCOTUS rulings could kill
