Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died

Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer, professor, and one of the first prominent thinkers to conceptualize the…

Wikipedia Has A Gender Gap Problem, Study Claims

BARCELONA, Spain — For over two decades, Wikipedia has served as a go-to source of information for…

Airbnb finally bans all indoor security cameras

Certain Airbnb hosts will need to make a few adjustments to their properties. On Monday, the…

How social media helps wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems.…

TSA is testing a self-screening security checkpoint in Vegas

The Transportation Security Administration is launching the pilot phase of an autonomous self-screening checkpoint system. Unveiled…

OpenAI wants to devour a huge chunk of the internet. Who’s going to stop them?

You probably don’t know about Automattic, but they know you. As the parent company of WordPress,…

The Apple Car is dead

It turns out that last month’s report on Apple kicking its tortured, multibillion dollar electric vehicle…

SLIM lives! Japan’s upside-down lander is online after a brutal lunar night

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Monday that its historic Smart Lander for Investigating Moon…

Google pauses Gemini image tools after AI generates ‘inaccuracies’ in race

Facing bias accusations, Google this week was forced to pause the image generation portion of Gemini,…

Delta’s solar eclipse flight sold out, but your best bet to see it is still down here

Earlier this week, Delta Air Lines announced an extra flight for its April 8 schedule, timed…

This DVD-sized disk can store a massive 125,000 gigabytes of data

Even in a digital-first world, optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays still have their many uses.…

Watch this cool, useless biohybrid robot take a stroll

As impressive as many biohybrid robotic projects are, they aren’t exactly known for their hairpin turns.…