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A look into how computer science is building and coding machines that solve problems the way human brains do.

Latest in AI

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How to use the best new features in iOS 18.4

a device on the top of the head with hands holding it

Brain implant helps woman with paralysis speak with her own voice again

By Mack DeGeurin

Atlas robot doing a somersault

Humanoid robots are breakdancing, with mixed results

Woman's hand reaching out from bed to turn off alarm on Amazon Echo Dot

Alexa is about to send everything you tell it to Amazon

chatgpt on a computer

How to use ChatGPT as a personal AI research assistant

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/04/11: Robotic device coined Digidog on display during NYPD (New York Police Department) announcement of deployment of innovative technologies on Times Square. Digidog will assist to the NYPD Technical Assistance and Response Unit. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New York law would ban civilians from weaponizing robots

By Mack DeGeurin

Crying woman with smiling stickers on the face. Deepfake, sexual harassment in internet, digital sex crime concept. Vector illustration.

Spreading AI-generated content could lead to expensive fines

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of black chess pieces on chessboard with king knocked over

AI tries to cheat at chess when it’s losing

screenshot of "AI mode" on google

Google is expanding AI search, whether you like it or not

By Mack DeGeurin

How to get Gemini to remember (or forget) everything you’ve said

a map of the world with a line representing where the cable would connect

Meta spending billions on world’s longest subsea internet cable

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of police officer chest wearing Axon body camera

Utah bill would require cops to disclose AI-authored police reports

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How to use Apple Intelligence to sort your emails

Inventor demonstrating modified trumpet invention

The 10 coolest musical instruments you’ll see in 2025

a screenshot asking chatgpt to send a cat photo every day at 4pm

How to use tasks and reminders inside ChatGPT

a laptop, ipad, and iphone

How to turn off Apple Intelligence on all your Apple devices

Experimental results of the miniaturized DN2s integrated at the distal facet of a MMF using the 3D GS-TPN fabrication method, showing SEM and white-light microscopy images.

This AI chip is the size of a grain of salt

The Spotify app icon is being displayed on a smartphone with Spotify visible in the background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on February 11, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto)

9 useful apps that plug into Spotify

rat looking at you

Rats beat AI at recognizing obscured objects

By Mack DeGeurin

a cartoon hand holding a phone with a lock

How to set up the new theft detection features on Android

The future of AI is even more fossil fuels

By Mack DeGeurin

Quill pen on old journal with parchment background and handwriting.

Know how to read cursive? The National Archives wants you.

By Laura Baisas

cobra snake closeup

Scientists use AI to create completely new anti-venom proteins

By Lauren Leffer

cancer cells microscope

AI is already changing the ways we fight cancer

By Mack DeGeurin

Creepy robot toddler can mimic human expressions

Hands typing on keyboard

Charter school is replacing teachers with AI

Three people's hands holding beers at bar

AI thought knee X-rays could tell if you drink beer and eat refried beans

Teen boy with headphones in bedroom listening to music on smartphone

AI chatbot suggested a teen kill his parents, lawsuit claims

An oil rig in Oklahoma.

‘A needle in a haystack:’ How AI is helping uncover abandoned oil wells

By Mack DeGeurin

drone flying for aerial night photography

Drones can avoid GPS jammers by navigating with the stars

A close-up view of a green traffic light with an image of two walking lesbian girls at the center of Vienna, Austria.

Some of the world’s smartest traffic lights are getting smarter

Concept art of Tesla Cybercab on city street at night

Tesla seeks human ‘remote operators’ to help ‘autonomous’ robotaxi service

An AI-generated rendition of the "Daisy" AI bores a scammer with descriptions of her fictional cat.

This AI-generated grandma thwarts scammers with long stories about her cat

By Mack DeGeurin

da Vinci Surgical System practicing sutures on pork loin

Watch a robot operate on a pork loin

"message chatgpt" screenshot

Goodbye Google? How to use ChatGPT’s new web search.

Rusty-patched Bumblebee gathering nectar from a yellow flower

Rare bees kill Meta’s nuclear-powered AI data center plans

screenshot of rufus working

How to use Rufus AI to shop smarter on Amazon

Sensors spread throughout the garden will measure the garden soil for changes in temperature, moisture, and other environmental factors.

AI helps plants tell you when they are thirsty

By Mack DeGeurin

The first few hundred digits of the prime number M136279841

Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number

How to use Gemini AI to ask questions about your Gmail inbox

Ai-Da robot standing in front of two of its paintings at the United Nations

A humanoid robot’s painting called ‘AI God’ may sell for over $120,000

Researcher testing sensors and weights for fatigue monitoring

Wearable sensors monitor factory worker fatigue in real time

An architect's rendering of what Kairos' first demonstration mini nuclear reactor will look like when it's completed.

Google bets big on ‘mini’ nuclear reactors to feed its AI demands

By Mack DeGeurin

Moflin robot pet

Casio thinks an AI-powered furball can replace your pet

‘Godfather of AI’ wins Nobel Prize for work he fears threatens humanity

By Mack DeGeurin

a phone with chat gpt open on it

ChatGPT remembers things about you now. But you can switch its memory off.

I spoke to a 60-year-old AI version of myself and it was…. unsettling

I spoke to a 60-year-old AI version of myself and it was…. unsettling

By Mack DeGeurin

Tesla electric Cybertruck parked in the shopping plaza. Front view.

$8,000 ‘Full Self-Driving Mode’ is finally in select Cybertrucks

Dataset relating to "Corpus: Omens and Portents"

Do AI-generated images have the capacity to further estrange, if not profoundly alienate, us from the world?

By Anthony Downey / MIT Press Reader

Artist concept: The LSST will carry out a deep, ten-year imaging survey in six broad optical bands over the main survey area of 18,000 square degrees.

How AI’s data-crunching-power can help demystify the cosmos

By Briley Lewis

The Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is seen in the early morning hours March 28, 2011 in Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Massive AI energy demand is bringing Three Mile Island back from the dead

By Mack DeGeurin

Lionsgate will let Runway AI train its model on John Wick and thousands of other titles.

What a major movie studio’s AI deal could mean for the future of Hollywood

By Mack DeGeurin

a Byrde's whale surfaces to breathe in the Pacific Ocean

Elusive whale’s vocalization could be their version of ‘Marco Polo’

By Laura Baisas

Conspiracy theories hat

How an AI ‘debunkbot’ can change a conspiracy theorist’s mind

By Mack DeGeurin

Amazon says its football AI can predict blitzes

Starship Titanic promo art displaying the ship's in-game bots

The improbable voyage of Starship Titanic, the 1998 Douglas Adams video game filled with ‘unhinged’ chatbots

Man with AI song catalog ‘defrauds’ streaming services of $10 million

Steaming pipes at Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant. This image is shot using a drone.

‘The world is not prepared:’ How AI energy thirst might tap into geothermal power

By Mack DeGeurin

Google’s HeAR model sifts through over 300 million, two seconds snippets of audio to search for signs of respiratory harm.

AI can spot tuberculosis early by listening to your cough

By Mack DeGeurin

Cop using Axon's Draft One AI tech

Cops are using AI software to write police reports

a van driving in desert

The do’s and don’ts of using AI to plan your travel

Hydrogel device that plays Pong

A lifeless hydrogel blob can play Pong

China surveillance camera

China leans into using AI—even as the US leads in developing it

By Shaoyu Yuan / The Conversation

Brown hyenas love to go hunting in Baker’s Bay, Namibia.

Artificial intelligence could soon turn anyone into an expert tracker

By Ryan Truscott / Hakai Magazine