Enlarge / Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ studio at the Central Park Arsenal in New York City, featuring models of extinct animals. Public domain The original plans… Read More »The real culprit behind the 1871 vandalism of the Paleozoic Museum in Central Park
For decades, Lulu Friesdat has made election integrity her life’s work. She gained support from activists and academics and co-founded Smart Elections, a nonpartisan group… Read More »These activists distrust voting machines. Just don’t call them election deniers.
Enlarge / A Trump campaign event in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg YouTube on Friday announced a major change… Read More »YouTube will now allow videos falsely claiming Trump won the 2020 election
Enlarge / The Pixel Watch. It is a round small pebble. Ron Amadeo Here’s one of the improvements Google might want to look at for… Read More »Some Google Pixel Watches are falling apart [Update]
Microsoft The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker… Read More »They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft and discovered new possibilities for AI
Enlarge / Grail is a subsidiary of Illumina, the world’s largest gene sequencing company. Grail More than 400 patients who signed up for a groundbreaking… Read More »More than 400 Grail patients were falsely told they may have cancer
Photo illustration by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images No wonder Google is struggling to keep up with the app store. As of Monday, researchers… Read More »Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. This is why
Don Bateman, an engineer who invented a cockpit device that warns airplane pilots with colorful screen displays and dire audible warnings such as “Caution Terrain!”… Read More »Aviation safety pioneer Don Bateman dies at age 91
Our panel on pandemic lessons included Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo (center) and Dr. Caitlin Rivers (right). In many ways, modern developments have stolen the show during… Read More »Pandemic Lessons: More Health Workers, Fewer Faxes – a summary of Ars Frontiers
Hello! Welcome back to About technology: AIa pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it. In last… Read More »How to use AI to edit and generate stunning photos
Mark Zuckerberg embraced a digital world known as the metaverse when he said in November 2021 that he would change his company’s name from Facebook… Read More »Apple steps into the metaverse. Does anyone care?
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
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
