Amazon is swallowing its pride to ensure its internet satellites get to orbit on timeThe company bought rides from SpaceX for its Project Kuiper satellites, with three Falcon 9 launches set for 2025. By C. MacDonald, 12.03.2023
The UK could require facial scans or photo IDs to view online pornOfcom’s drafted guidelines are a step toward enforcing the recently passed Online Safety Act.By W. Shanklin, 10 hours ago
Microsoft's Seeing AI app for low-vision and blind users comes to AndroidThe app, which helps people 'see' the world around them, is now available in 18 languages.By K. Holt, 12.05.2023
Meta's latest AI suite makes speech translation more seamless and expressiveIf you're whispering, so should your translated speech, right?By R. Lai, 12.04.2023
Amazon is swallowing its pride to ensure its internet satellites get to orbit on timeThe company bought rides from SpaceX for its Project Kuiper satellites, with three Falcon 9 launches set for 2025. By C. MacDonald, 12.03.2023
Researchers quantify the carbon footprint of generating AI imagesCreating a photograph using artificial intelligence is like charging your phone.By M. Saleh, 12.02.2023
Bipartisan Senate bill would kill the TSA’s ‘Big Brother’ airport facial recognition‘The TSA program is a precursor to a full-blown national surveillance state.’By W. Shanklin, 12.01.2023
Can digital watermarking protect us from generative AI?Content authenticity and enforcing copyright in the age of AI are proving difficult problems to solve.By A. Tarantola, 12.01.2023
How OpenAI's ChatGPT has changed the world in just a yearThe generative AI chatbot has helped kickstart a multibillion dollar industry.By A. Tarantola, 11.30.2023
NASA and IBM are building an AI for weather and climate applicationsThey say the model will be able to predict meteorological phenomena and identify conditions conducive to wildfires.By K. Holt, 11.30.2023
Microsoft joins OpenAI board as Sam Altman returns as CEOThe exec also explains why Quora's CEO gets to stay on the board.By R. Lai, 11.30.2023
EVs are way more unreliable than gas-powered cars, Consumer Reports data indicatesPlug-in hybrids scored even worse.By W. Shanklin, 11.30.2023
Google's first geothermal energy project is up and runningCarbon-free electricity is now flowing into the grid that serves Google's Nevada data centers.By K. Holt, 11.29.2023
Black hole behavior suggests Dr. Who's 'bigger on the inside' Tardis trick is theoretically possibleEuclidean geometries don't really hold up within gravitational fields this strong.By A. Tarantola, 11.26.2023
Formula 1 hopes AI will help it figure out if a car breaks track limitsOfficials are looking to vastly reduce the number of incidents that require manual review.By K. Holt, 11.24.2023
Hyundai's Ioniq 5 N doubles the power and the funOne of the best EVs on the market just got turned into a verified rocket ship.By T. Stevens, 11.22.2023
Smarter public transit comes at the cost of rider anonymityMore digital payment options means more chances to collect sensitive data. By K. Malone, 11.21.2023
Webb telescope images show an unprecedented and 'chaotic' view of the center of our galaxyResearchers plan to use this data to test current theories of star formation. By L. Bonk, 11.21.2023
Stadium card stunts and the art of programming a crowdLike a Soylent Jumbotron, they're made of people.By A. Tarantola, 11.19.2023
SpaceX loses another Starship and Super Heavy rocket in double explosion during testThe FAA cleared Starship for its second test this week following the explosion of the first in April.By C. MacDonald, 11.18.2023
Watch SpaceX's Starship lift off for its second fully integrated test flightThe FAA cleared the launch a few days ago after investigating Starship's explosive first test flight.By M. Moon, 11.18.2023