The largest shark alive today, up to 20 meters in length, is the whale shark, a placid filter feeder. But only 4 million years ago… Read More »The largest predatory shark in the world had an elevated body temperature
He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic professor of religion at Yale University and a… Read More »John B. Goodenough, 100, deceased; Nobel laureate of the lithium-ion battery
Enlarge / This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander, about the size of an average two-car garage, that would carry… Read More »NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag — and it’s colossal
Enlarge / (left) Skull of a teenage girl from the 7th century AD. (right) Facial reconstruction as she might have looked in life. University of… Read More »See the likely face of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon teenage girl
Getty Images | style photography A federal judge filed a lawsuit and fined the plaintiff’s lawyers $5,000 after they used ChatGPT to examine court documents… Read More »Lawyers are having a really bad day in court after citing fake cases fabricated by ChatGPT
SmileDirectClub, which provides orthodontic services through the mail, has agreed to release customers requesting refunds from non-disclosure agreements as part of a settlement with the… Read More »SmileDirectClub releases customers from non-disclosure agreements in settlement
Enlarge / A PC with Windows 11. This week’s Dev Channel Windows Insider Preview build for Windows 11 adds another handful of useful and/or interesting… Read More »Windows 11 preview adds better passkey support, reverts File Explorer changes
Two of the world’s richest and most influential men, who happen to run rival social media networks, seemed to push each other into agreeing to… Read More »Elon Musk presents ‘Cage Match’ with Mark Zuckerberg
Police in the UK are seeing a “record number” of fake calls to 999, the UK’s emergency services number, and the culprit is apparently Android.… Read More »Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with fake calls
In Toronto, a candidate for this week’s mayoral election vowing to clear out homeless camps has released a series of campaign promises illustrated by artificial… Read More »The use of AI in elections is causing a battle over guardrails
Enlarge / With Midjourney 5.2 you can “zoom out” on synthesized images. The original synthetic image is shown here in the red dotted box. Half… Read More »“Amazing” – Midjourney update stuns AI performers with camera-like feature
Canada’s parliament passed a law requiring tech companies to pay domestic news outlets for linking to their articles, prompting the owner of Facebook and Instagram… Read More »Canada’s Online News Act targets Facebook and Google
Enlarge / This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is the first direct… Read More »X-ray “light echoes” indicate an outburst of the Milky Way’s central black hole
A magical material that can effortlessly conduct electricity at room temperature would likely transform civilization, recover energy otherwise lost to electrical resistance and open up… Read More »New study supports claim about room-temperature superconductor
