Don’t Fall for the New GOP Environmentalism
In case you missed it, conservatives deeply care about whales and the oceans now. The U.S. In For A Dry Winter | Extreme Earth Off English At least, that’s the…
New California Legislation Could Hit Backspace on Data Brokers
Right now, meticulous details about your life are for sale on the internet. It can be details about your children, your yearly income, your medical conditions, hopes, fears, exercise habits,…
Sex in Space Is Inevitable—and Scientists Say We Need to Be Ready
Scientists are making a provocative case in a new paper out this month: Sex in space is going to happen sooner rather than later, and it’s about time people started…
Grimes Will Lend Her Voice to Your AI Song, But Only If You Split the Money
Grimes is best known for her songs “Oblivion” and “Kill V. Maim’” as well as her past relationship with tech tycoon Elon Musk.Image: Theo Wargo (Getty Images) Pop singer-songwriter Grimes…
Life Beneath the Arctic Ice Is Chock-Full of Microplastics
Picture a raft of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and you’re probably imagining a pristine marriage of white and blue. But during summertime, below the surface, something much greener…
Stack Overflow Joins Twitter and Reddit in Charging AI Companies for Training Data
Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI scrape the internet for data in order to make their tech as smart as it is.Image: Dennis Diatel (Shutterstock) Stack Overflow is joining in on…
Call Me ‘DeepBrain’: Google Smushes DeepMind and Brain AI Teams Together
Talk about a meeting of the minds. In another bid to add some NOx to its sputtering AI development, Google announced late Thursday that it plans to combine its two…
Airbus Shows Off Space Station Design With Simulated Gravity
An illustration of an astronaut inside the science deck.Illustration: Airbus The company designed its orbital module to be stationed around Earth, the Moon, or even Mars, whether it be attached…
Researchers Are Turning Taxidermied Birds Into Drones
A reliable approach to creating a machine that can walk, run, swim, or fly like an animal is to simply copy Mother Nature’s work. There’s a good reason Boston Dynamics’…
Military Tech Execs Tell Congress an AI Pause Is ‘Close to Impossible’
Military tech executives and experts speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday said growing calls for a “pause” on new artificial intelligence systems were misguided and seemed “close to…