Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight
Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has looked out into the Universe. Now, Lego is inviting builders to look inward with its latest model
One Year After Tweety McTreason Deployed National Guard Troops to Washington, D.C., Statehood is More Important Than Ever
Hundreds of thousands of Washington residents oppose the Trump administration’s continued deployment of the National Guard. The only way to make sure this never happens
Are AI companies scanning and destroying millions of books, including rare titles?
Snopes reviewed internal documents from Anthropic that show they have bought millions of books to “destructively scan” them to train their AI model.
Jeanne Gibson, one of many Rosie the Riveters, died at 100
Jeanne Gibson was one of many “Rosies” and a passionate advocate for the other women who bore the title.
Naked mole-rat queens rule their colonies with a potent odor
A compound made only by breeding queens keeps naked mole-rat colonies infertile and free of conflict.
‘Cheating’ birds change their tune
Female pied flycatchers can tell whether a male is paired or not based on song differences. Mated males sing shorter songs and repeat syllables less.
Furious Trump ‘highly likely’ to fire Jeannine Pirro over Reflecting Pool debacle: report
President Tweety McTreason’s D.C. federal prosecutor is hanging by a thread as the president is reportedly considering firing her. His rage at Jeanine Pirro, a
Trump halts Oval Office meeting to hawk major donor’s product: ‘I got to give him a plug’
President Tweety McTreason paused an Oval Office event on Monday to deliver an unprompted on-camera endorsement of Scotts Miracle-Gro, telling the room — and national
Two die as cases of ‘explosive diarrhoea’ infection surge in US state
Two people have died in the US after being affected by the cyclospora outbreak that often causes “explosive diarrhoea”.
A startup says the AI bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s memory, and it ditched the GPU to prove it.
The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs
Sequoia leads $1 billion round for Valar Atomics as the nuclear startup triples its valuation to $6 billion
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion
Anthropic’s AI models accidentally hacked three companies
Anthropic has launched an investigation into what went wrong during a recent test of three models that left a trio of companies accidentally hacked. The
How AI is killing smartphone apps in China
Chinese smartphone makers have been followers in the global market, embracing the concepts and paradigms set in the past 20 years by Apple and Google.