TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week — emails informing them that someone else was making a claim on their payments.Anthropic settled a copyright class action...

Willis Carrier didn’t set out to make summer bearable; he was just trying to fix a printing problem.In the summer of 1902, the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Company in Brooklyn was facing a crisis. High humidity in their plant...

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"No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today," reports Space.com.DW.com reports that a Spectrum space rocket from German company Isar Aerospace launched today from the Arctic Norwegian spaceport at Andoya:"Germany has spaceflight capabilities,"...

When I first tested the developer beta of Apple's Siri AI by taking it as my tour guide around San Francisco, I was convinced the overhauled smartphone assistant would be an “everything tool” on the iPhone. The answers felt...

The injection mechanism is a small device that deploys a syringe using a spring system. That triggers a process that breaks the seal between a chamber containing citric acid and another containing baking soda. The resulting chemical reaction—basically the...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is now on Bluesky, they announced this week. But "We can't advocate that you sign up for a Bluesky account like we do with Mastodon or PeerTube since signing up for Bluesky...

OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum. The company also said it’s “past time” to “define standards” around how it shares information around incidents where its technology...

CNN reports that alcohol "may play a greater role in death from numerous types of cancers in the United States than previously known, according to a new study.""While it's true that overall cancer mortality has declined, we found...

After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool from code that the company sends to a police officer’s browser and uncovered key...