Technology

A rising underwater volcano off the coast of Madagascar has been spewing up chemical traces of material from a...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity demand: The International Energy Agency estimates they could account for 3 to 4...

The ear has always processed what is coming before the eye does. In horror movies, the music always tells you something bad is coming. Now researchers at Georgia Tech are using the same idea in real life to keep...

Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reigniting fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Researchers who tracked more than 90,000 people over a decade found that sitting or lying down while awake for more than 30 minutes in one period each day was...

Europe’s most extreme heatwave so far may have killed between 17,000 and 25,000 people, according to an early estimate...

On a Wednesday afternoon in April, a cohort of scholars from the School of Humanities, Arts, and...

Owners of Meta's AI glasses have been told they must pay a monthly fee if they want full access to a feature that was previously free.Users will have to shell out $19.99 every month to use "Conversation Focus", which...

Ben Guez has “a bunch of potential international wives in DMs,” thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trial reels.“I think it’s crazy, like the potential is insane right now,” Guez,...

A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder confirms something that sounds both impressive and concerning. People find interacting with AI simulations of their dead loved ones deeply meaningful, and most will come away wanting to do it...