Enlarge / The upper stage for SpaceX’s next Starship test battle, dubbed Ship 25, will be tested in Texas earlier this month. SpaceX will debut… Read More »SpaceX is making over 1,000 changes to the next Starship rocket
Into a giant warehouse in Reading, Massachusetts, I meet some robots that look like goofy green footstools from the future. Their round eyes and contented… Read More »Amazon’s new robots are revolutionizing automation
When I recently turned on Google’s new Pixel Fold smartphone and unfolded it like a book, it turned into a miniature tablet, similar to an… Read More »Google Pixel Fold Review: Foldable phones are getting better
Fox News shook up its primetime lineup Monday in the first major reorganization of its most popular programming since the start of the Trump administration.… Read More »Jesse Watters fills Tucker Carlson’s old slot at Fox News
While negotiations began with Young and Schumer, they didn’t end there. Rather, the pair heard input from other congressional committees and incorporated that into the… Read More »The US Senate wants to curb AI. Good luck with that
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
Dr. Matthew Hitchcock, a family physician in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has an AI helper. It records patient visits on its smartphone and summarizes them for treatment… Read More »AI may one day perform medical miracles. For now, it helps with paperwork.
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
In 2014, DeepMind was acquired by Google after showing striking results from software that used reinforcement learning to master simple video games. Over the next… Read More »Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says the next algorithm will overshadow ChatGPT
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
In the richest countries in the world, the richer people are, the thinner they are. But in Uganda, one of the poorest countries, where nearly… Read More »In poorer countries, obesity can signal financial security
About once a For two weeks, David Ermes gets an email from a journalist or fact-checker along the lines of “Boys have to dress up… Read More »The US exports anti-LGBTQ hate online | WIRED
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
Now it is a different landscape. Bonds are more reliable than last year because yields are already high. Even if they continue to rise, there… Read More »Stocks may be booming, but don’t forget about cash and bonds
