Technology

The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in...

ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”)...

Tesla’s energy storage business is the elder statesman, at more than a decade old. Growth in its Powerwall (battery storage for homes) and Megapack (battery storage for utilities and commercial facilities) sales has, in recent years, helped to compensate...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Wood heating is reintroducing lead into the air of local communities and homes, a systematic investigation by academics has found. Overwhelming evidence of lead's neurotoxicity meant the metal was...

Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas.In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as...

Zagorski says this is likely contributing to an uptick in meth use, but that it’s a “relatively minor” factor overall, with economic precarity and housing instability doing far more to drive the crisis.Nicky Mehtani, an assistant professor in the...

The first trial to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide by adding crushed olivine to the ocean had no adverse effects...

Cleaning up air pollution in Europe and North America could result in more weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning...

AI video generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford founders, no ex-Google founders, no nine-figure seed round that bought them time to ignore revenue. Its three founders — two from Chile, one from Greece...

If you have ever stared at a long list of options and felt your brain just give up, you are not alone. Researchers at Cornell University get it, and they have built a tool called Interactive Explainable Ranking (IER)...