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Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
Stanford researchers analyzed 305 million texts, revealing AI-writing trends.
TSMC to invest $100B as Trump demands more US-made chips, report says
Trump's threat of semiconductor tariffs may have spooked the chipmaker.
Netflix drops trailer for the Russo brothers’ The Electric State
"We have a chance to tear their whole sick system down. Humans and bots fighting against the real enemy."
Kaizen: A Factory Story makes a game of perfecting 1980s Japanese manufacturing
Puzzle masters return with a new studio and compelling manufacturing challenges.
The 2025 Genesis GV80 Coupe proves to be a real crowd-pleaser
The Korean automaker has come a long way in 10 years.
Gemini Live will learn to peer through your camera lens in a few weeks
Google's Project Astra demo is almost ready for prime time.
These hot oil droplets can bounce off any surface
Droplets of less volatile liquids like soybean oil and silicone oil have lower saturation pressures than water.
The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week
Flying closer to Earth delivers higher-resolution imagery, but there's a catch.
Apple’s M4 MacBook Air refresh may be imminent, with iPads likely to follow
Apple's lower-end products may be seeing a flurry of activity soon.
AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”
Technique uses a "teacher" LLM to train smaller AI systems.
“It’s not actually you”: Teens cope while adults debate harms of fake nudes
Most kids know that deepfake nudes are harmful, Thorn survey says.
Firefly’s picture-perfect Moon landing shows the way for lunar exploration
"Every single thing was clockwork... We got some Moon dust on our boots."
AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence
We already have an example of general intelligence, and it doesn't look like AI.
The 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA is good enough to make a believer out of EV skeptics
But if you're still skeptical, don't worry: There's a hybrid version, too.
A small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
The largest study yet of the ISS's microbes hints we're may be keeping it too clean.
Driving an EV restomod that costs as much as a house—the JIA Chieftain
There are no reused Tesla parts here, but the price tag is prototype-level.
Driving the new Mercedes CLA made me a believer in Mercedes-Benz’s EV future
And if it doesn't, they've got a hybrid version, too.
We’ve figured out the basics of a shape-shifting, T-1000-style material
A pack of small robots can do liquid/solid transitions and adopt different shapes.
Half-Life 3 is just the hot exclusive Valve needs to propel SteamOS past Windows
Opinion: Just as Half-Life 2 helped launch Steam, a sequel could help establish non-Windows PC gaming.
Federal firings could wreak havoc on Great Lakes fishery
Populations of sea lampreys likely to run amok with US Fish and Wildlife Service cuts.
SpaceX readies a redo of last month’s ill-fated Starship test flight
The FAA has cleared SpaceX to launch Starship's eighth test flight as soon as Monday.
Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Android users who haven't installed Google's February patch batch should do so ASAP.
Mars’ polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward
That, plus data from the InSight lander, gives us a new view into Mars' interior.
Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing
Twenty people have been hospitalized. Most cases are in children.
Commercials are still too loud, say “thousands” of recent FCC complaints
1,700 complaints about boisterous TV ads hit the FCC in 2024.
Research roundup: 7 cool science stories from February
Dancing sea turtles, the discovery of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, perfectly boiled eggs, and more.
Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks
Google says it has no immediate plans to change work-from-home policies.
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly.
Salty game dev comments, easier mods are inside Command & Conquer’s source code
With the right folks involved, EA can capably preserve and update its classics.
Europol arrests 25 users of online network accused of sharing AI CSAM
Europol's hunt targets anyone making or sharing AI sex images depicting minors.
“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews
GPT-4.5 offers marginal gains in capability and poor coding performance despite 30x the cost.
Yes, it turns out you can make a Tesla Cybertruck even uglier
Mansory, infamous modifier of cars, turns its attention to the Tesla Cybertruck.
Details on AMD’s $549 and $599 Radeon RX 9070 GPUs, which aim at Nvidia and 4K
New GPUs launch March 6, targeting upper-midrange 1440p and 4K gaming PCs.
AMD’s FSR 4 upscaling is exclusive to 90-series Radeon GPUs, won’t work on other cards
Like Nvidia, AMD is locking some upscaling advancements to its newest GPUs.
US Antarctic Program disrupted by DOGE-induced chaos
Long-term impacts will affect not only research but also geopolitics.
On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good
Skype users will be able to move into Teams with their existing accounts.
Did the snowball Earth give complex life a boost?
Planet-wide glaciers may have filled the oceans with mineral nutrients.
Elon Musk fans truly believe he can make Dogecoin the currency of Earth
Dogecoin Foundation strikes deals to mainstream the popular memecoin.
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
One Falcon 9 launched an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, an asteroid prospector, and a NASA science probe.
Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
This success lays the foundation for future missions to dock with out-of-control satellites.
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Repositories, once set to public and later to private, still accessible through Copilot.
Microsoft brings an official Copilot app to macOS for the first time
It looks and works just like similar apps from OpenAI and Anthropic.
New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
New diffusion models borrow technique from AI image synthesis for 10x speed boost.
Google will finally fix awesome (but broken) song detection feature for Pixels
Google broke the feature last year, and it's taken months of complaints to get this far.
The PlayStation VR2 will get a drastic price cut, but that might not be enough
This could revitalize the platform-or demonstrate that things aren't going well.
Now the overclock-curious can buy a delidded AMD 9800X3D, with a warranty
CPUs ready to blast past their limits can be had with a warranty, for a premium.
Doctors report upticks in severe brain dysfunction among kids with flu
CDC data is limited but hints it could be one of the more severe seasons.
Portal Randomized feels like playing Portal again for the first time
Small gameplay tweaks make for a completely fresh take on old challenges.
Trump should block Biden’s AI “gift” to China, Microsoft argues
Microsoft: If US cuts off friends" from AI chips, China will win AI race.
Max is pulling CNN and sports from some US subscribers on March 30
People who pay for ad-free Max will still have access to CNN Max and B/R Sports.
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