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
There is an outdated office building on Water Street in lower Manhattan where it would make a lot of sense to create apartments. Once the… Read More »American cities have a conversion problem, and it’s not just offices
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
The last time a US Treasury Secretary visited China, Washington and Beijing were embroiled in a trade war, the Trump administration was preparing to brand… Read More »Yellen’s visit to China aims to ease tensions amid deep divisions
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
A Louisiana federal court on Tuesday banned parts of the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about large amounts of online content, a… Read More »Federal judge restricts Biden officials’ contacts with social media sites
AI dungeon, a text-based fantasy simulation running on OpenAI’s GPT-3 has been spawning weird stories since May 2019. Reminiscent of early text adventure games like… Read More »Generative AI in Games Will Cause a Copyright Crisis | WIRED
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
Tartan, whisky, restaurants in the middle of nowhere – they are all reimagined in the new fashionable “Outlander” area.
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 news Meta’s data collection practices were called into question on Tuesday after the European Union’s highest court upheld a decision by German antitrust regulators… Read More »Meta loses appeal over how it collects data in Germany
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?
For Paul Anka, repair always seemed the obvious and only option. Growing up in Romania in the 1990s, he fondly remembers his grandfather’s workshop –… Read More »Open-source your blender to fight electronic waste | WIRED
When it launched its first rocket in 1963, India was a poor country pursuing the most advanced technology in the world. That projectile, whose nose… Read More »India’s aerospace industry is catching up fast
Researchers say nearly 336,000 devices exposed to the internet remain vulnerable to a critical vulnerability in firewalls sold by Fortinet as administrators have yet to… Read More »336,000 servers remain unpatched against critical Fortigate vulnerability
