Technology

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from outer space. Anderson built an improved version of a cloud chamber, a device...

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is acquiring his AI startup xAI, the centibillionaire announced on Monday. In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial...

Nonmedical devices that read brainwaves, such as smart headbands, headphones, and glasses, are becoming more popular among consumers. The products claim to make users more productive, creative, and healthier. IEEE Spectrum previewed several of these smart wearables that were...

Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network that launched last week and bills itself as a platform "built exclusively for AI agents," had a security vulnerability that exposed private messages shared between agents, the email addresses of more than 6,000...

At first glance, it might not seem like people have much in common with deer. But a strange discovery about how their...

Hazardous dual-use functions (for example, tools to fabricate biometric voiceprints to defeat authentication). Regulatory adherence: confine to licensed facilities and verified operators; prohibit capabilities whose primary purpose is unlawful. Close the loop at real-world choke pointsAI-enabled systems become real...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. We have long...

However, if a new social media does come along and people vote with their feet (or eyeballs and thumbs, more accurately), it just might move the dial. I'm reminded of the rise of social media challenger BeReal, a French...

"Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day..." writes Ars Technica."However, 8K never proved its necessity or practicality."LG Display is no longer making 8K LCD or...

How many of the companies with recent layoffs are truly adapting their workforces to the efficiencies and challenges of artificial intelligence? And how many of them were just using AI as an excuse to cover other problems?That’s the question...