A son overlooked and a jailed tycoon: Inside Samsung’s succession drama
The family dynasty behind Samsung is so complicated it regularly makes headline news in South Korea.
Month: April 2026
Giving coffee a jolt could help assess its quality
NPR’s science podcast Short Wave looks at the secrets behind scorpions’ weapons, using electricity to measure the quality of a cup of coffee, and what
Craig Venter, pioneering human genome decoder, dies at 79
Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His “whole genome shotgun method” helped genome sequencing become faster and cheaper. (Image credit: K.C. Alfred/The
Friendlier chatbots can be less reliable, study says
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute indicates that AI chatbots trained to be extra warm, friendly, and empathetic can also become less reliable, according
Gartner sees untamed growth in agentic AI
Fortune 500 enterprises will be deploying armies of AI agents by 2028 — to the tune of 150,000 digital “workers,” Gartner said in a survey
Mary had a little lamb, but Teemu the sheep had 6
Teemu, a finnsheep at Clover and Bee Farm in Underhill, Vt., gave birth to sextuplets earlier this month. The sheer number of offspring, and when
Oil prices hit new wartime high before easing, as gas prices expected to go up
The price of Brent crude oil briefly surged past $126 US a barrel early Thursday before coming back down as stalled U.S.-Iran talks raised doubts
Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite
Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world’s earliest evidence of humans infected with the Cryptosporidium parasite.
Weapons of the world quiz: Can you identify these historical objects of war?
Can you identify these millennia- to centuries-old weapons from the smallest clues? Test your eye for history by matching carved details and close-up images to
Google AI breakthrough means chatbots use six times less memory during conversations without compromising performance
A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI’s working memory into a smaller, more efficient form.
Samsung’s founding family doubled its wealth in a year. Its workers want a share.
The Lee family of South Korea, which controls Samsung, has doubled its wealth in twelve months. Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index now values the dynasty’s holdings at
OpenAI now lets you lock your ChatGPT account with a hardware key. Here is why it thinks you should.
OpenAI has released a security feature for ChatGPT accounts that treats them the way banks treat online banking: hardware keys, no passwords, no email recovery
US Congress passes bill to resume funding for DHS and end partial shutdown
House approves funding measure, which excludes ICE, ending weeks-long crisis that left many federal workers without pay.