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Nanomachines, son! Photo Illustration: Google Gemini I confess, the title is misleading, and I apologize for that, but we are inching ever closer to making microbots and one day, nanomachines. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered gears that can fit inside a human hair. For reference, a human hair can range from … Read more
Scam texts are usually something we swipe away without much thought. A fake bank alert here, a courier delivery hoax there, but security researchers warn the game is changing. According to Wired, cybercriminals are now deploying “SMS blasters”. These are portable devices posing as a cell tower to trick nearby phones into connecting to it, after which it sends … Read more
“We as a culture are optimizing for rage now.”
A viral YouTube video titled “WE’RE SUING MOJANG” has set off one of the most unusual legal challenges Minecraft’s creators have faced. Kian Brose, a small developer and content creator, announced in his follow-up video that he has raised $150,000 through a GoFundMe page to finance a class-action lawsuit in Sweden against Mojang, the Swedish … Read more
Right-wing users on social media on Tuesday were frustrated but not yet apoplectic about Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Things changed.
Panasonic wants to develop a new type of higher-capacity battery in about two years, which would extend the driving range of electric vehicles in a groundbreaking advance for the Tesla supplier. The Japanese company is working on eliminating the anode in batteries during the manufacturing stage to increase energy density through technology it says is … Read more
Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.
United Airlines said it had a very good summer at Newark airport. But air traffic control equipment issues and staffing shortages remained unresolved.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that Washington and Beijing “have larger agendas to work out” as the tech giant navigates the tricky politics of the US-China trade war and tries to satisfy demand from companies worldwide hungry for the company’s crucial AI chips. Huang was speaking in London after the Financial Times reported that China’s internet regulator has ordered top … Read more
The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.