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There has been a noticeable shift over the last few months on other operating systems like Android, iOS and Microsoft....

Everything is Linux

Hello 👋, Just came across this project, and saw the app being advertised as open source, like on this page where it's advertised as "100% open source". Looking at the app repo though, the licensing...

AI is poised to revolutionize our understanding of animal communication

When the spinal cords of mice and humans are partially damaged, the initial paralysis is followed by the extensive, spontaneous recovery of motor function. However, after a complete spinal cord injury, this natural repair of the spinal cord doesn't occur and there is no recovery. Meaningful recovery after severe injuries...

In 2020, California had 500 megawatts of grid battery storage. Now, just three years later, it has over 5,000 megawatts.

The mayor says they are paying less per hour than the city's minimum wage to lease the robot

How Daron Acemoglu, one of the world's most respected experts on the economic effects of technology, learned to start worrying and fear AI.

Will everything you learned in college be replaced by ChatGPT? The CEO of job site Indeed says it's not out of the question.

An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

Jocular ones are welcome too (and no doubt inevitable), but I’m looking more for “sensible” ones. Some examples:...

The latest updates to Google’s generative AI chat bot lets it dig through your personal email, documents, and more—so you can get things done faster.

Many American CEOs say they're worried about their workplace's lack of AI skills, a new survey of C-suite executives and workers found. Here's why.

The pursuit of the most advanced AI—human-like artificial general intelligence—has prompted concerns among experts about potential dangers if it runs amok.

63 percent of Americans want regulation to prevent artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which OpenAI aims to build.

On the dissonance of the free prisoner

Philosophers have had surprisingly little to say about the experience and meaning of grief. In this interview, Kathleen Higgins rights that wrong and argues that grief has a deep connection to art, especially music, in the way it disrupts but also reorients our relationship to the world and others.

Richard Wolin shows how Martin Heidegger’s literary executors manipulated his manuscripts to disguise and downplay the philosopher’s antisemitism....

Most agree that health is better than sickness, abundance is better than poverty, and peace is better than war. But many now point to a fundamental problem. Despite better access to healthcare, education, and more disposable income, cases of depression have increased by over 50% worldwide since 1997. Research shows that richer...

If you like something ironically, do you actually like it or not? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be yes AND no.

Intel said it has made a significant breakthrough in the development of glass substrates for next-generation advanced packaging.

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The latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward

Most people now live in countries where two or fewer children are born for every two adults.

A first of its kind factory that will build humanoid robots is set to open in Salem, Oregon

Three industry professionals traveled 3,000 miles across America. Their mission: to dissect their carbon footprint. What they found was a complex calculation, with results more tightly-knit than anticipated – and a CO2 revelation.

Stephen Fry said he was "shocked" when AI cloned his voice because it could "have me read anything from a call to storm Parliament to hard porn."

I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....

With growing concerns about supply shortages, recycled battery materials could soon be playing a major role in the electric vehicle transition.

This is fascinating as it works contrary to how most vaccines work. The usual method is to teach the immune system to attack things ( Covid, Polio, Influenza, etc, etc). This does the opposite, it makes the immune system forget to attack things it shouldn't be attacking. The list of autoimmune diseases is long, and many people...

This genetically engineered microorganism has the ability to break down a type of plastic known as polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

In this edition of TC's Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover Apple's iPhone 15 announcements, casino hacks and California's proposed AV truck ban.

For eons, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has served as a sort of instruction manual for life, providing not just templates for a vast array of chemical structures but a means of managing their production.

The last time a human visited the moon was in December 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many foiled plans to go back.

We were designed to enjoy life's pleasures, not just to constantly seek self-improvement. Today’s self-help ideology echoes Nietzsche’s concern about the dangers of ascetic practices as a form of self-punishment.

Advances in artificial intelligence have prompted extensive public concern about its capacity to contribute to the spread of misinformation, bias, and cybersecurity breaches—and its potential existential threat to humanity. But, if anything, AI can aid human beings in making decisions aimed at improving social equality,...

The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702. The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)....