Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a light-emitting phosphor compound that can be injected into fleshy-leaved succulents so they charge under…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s roll-out of AI voice order-takers — deployed in more than 500 US drive-thrus — has…
Engineers Send Quantum Signals With Standard Internet Protocol Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated for the first time that delicate quantum signals can be transmitted over live…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself in their…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has begun enforcing the UK Online Safety Act on Steam by requiring UK-based…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Georgia Tech has ramped up corporate funding, securing about $70 million from industry this fiscal year — a 28% increase…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A recently published filing to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal indicates the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to…
Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley Big Interview with Alexis Ohanian covers his return to social platforms — notably…
Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Summary Meta’s freshly minted Superintelligence Lab has already seen at least three researchers resign within weeks of the unit’s public launch. Two…
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors Summary Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action brought by authors who accused the company of using…
