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Microsoft Windows 3D tubes screensaver screenshot
Internet

Those iconic ’90s Windows screensavers had a purpose

By Andrew Paul

Detail from the reconstructed stone tzompantli, or skull rack, at Chichén Itzá.
Archaeology

Ancient Mayan human sacrifices involved twins

By Andrew Paul

California Forever concept art of utopian cityscape
Agriculture

California’s billionaire utopia may not be as eco-friendly as advertised

By Andrew Paul

Young woman holding blank screen cell phone, driving car.
Technology

Your driving could be monitored by popular apps

By Andrew Paul

UP.FIT upgraded Cybertruck cop car concept
Technology

Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are coming

By Andrew Paul

OceanXplorers sub
Animals

Watch the exclusive trailer premiere for James Cameron’s new ‘OceanXplorers’ series

By Andrew Paul

Concept art of superstructure with gravity battery inside
Climate Change

Colossal skyscrapers could harness height for gravity batteries

By Andrew Paul

Visualisation of the central grave/main burial of the Grafenbühl mound
Science

DNA suggests ancient Celtic royalty was matrilineal

By Andrew Paul

Amazon workers testing Prime Air drones outside
AI

Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones get a major FAA clearance

By Andrew Paul

Underwater image of Titanic wreckage
Conservation

Billionaire plans to ride $20 million submersible to the Titanic

By Andrew Paul

Robot solving Rubik's cube
AI

In blink of an eye, robot sets new Rubik’s cube Guinness World Record

By Andrew Paul

Orlando, FL/USA-7/19/20: A bin of Elmers Glue in the school supply aisle at a Walmart in Orlando, Florida.
AI

Google’s AI Overview tells you to eat glue. (Don’t.)

By Andrew Paul

Private jet on tarmac at sunset
Aviation

Tracking private jets just got much harder

By Andrew Paul

Hand holding Neuralink implant
Health

85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient

By Andrew Paul

OpenAI logo and Sam Altman in background on screen.
Technology

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT voice that’s totally ‘not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson’

By Andrew Paul

OpenAI logo and Sam Altman in background on screen.
AI

OpenAI dissolved its team dedicated to preventing rogue AI

By Andrew Paul

Unitree G1 humanoid robot bending limbs while sitting on couch
Technology

Worryingly bendy humanoid robot can crush nuts, slice Coke bottles

By Andrew Paul

Drone spraying over graffiti
Technology

Washington state deploys $30,000 drone to combat graffiti

By Andrew Paul

Video game hall of fame 2024 inductees
Technology

The World Video Game Hall of Fame announces its 2024 inductees

By Andrew Paul

Archivist scanning documents at National Archives
Technology

Ancestry and the National Archives are digitizing tens of millions of records

By Andrew Paul

Fake website advertising dead loved one chatbot
Technology

AI ethicists warn of ‘digital hauntings’ from dead loved ones

By Andrew Paul

Project 821 hydrogen fuel superyacht in port
Environment

Welcome aboard the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell superyacht

By Andrew Paul

Assyrian mural image of lion
Science

Ancient mystery code was probably Sargon II’s name

By Andrew Paul

Side by side of Reid AI deepfake and Reid Hoffman
Technology

Watch a tech billionaire talk to his AI-generated clone

By Andrew Paul

Boston Dynamics Spot robot in puppet dog costume sitting next to regular Spot robot.
Technology

Boston Dynamics gives Spot bot a furry makeover

By Andrew Paul

Woman wearing Razer Zephyr Mask
Health

Surprise! That futuristic COVID mask was even sketchier than we thought

By Andrew Paul

Woman's hands typing on laptop
Technology

Romance scams just ‘happen in life,’ says CEO of biggest dating app company in the US

By Andrew Paul

Statue of Plato in Greece
Technology

A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite

By Andrew Paul

PaintCam Eve shooting paintballs at home
Technology

Startup pitches a paintball-armed, AI-powered home security camera

By Andrew Paul

Astronaut Andreas Mogensen aboard the ISS
Science

Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station

By Andrew Paul

People looking up at eclipse wearing protective glasses
Technology

Internet use dipped in the eclipse’s path of totality

By Andrew Paul

Smuggled gold disguised as machine parts
Technology

Smugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine parts

By Andrew Paul

Zodiac Killer Z340 coded message
Technology

How cryptographers finally cracked one of the Zodiac Killer’s hardest codes

By Andrew Paul

Slide Whistle robot quartet
Technology

Watch this robotic slide whistle quartet belt out Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’

By Andrew Paul

Shoe made from bacterial cellulose
Environment

Would you wear this ‘shoe-like vessel’ made from genetically engineered bacteria?

By Andrew Paul

Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to American flag.
Science

NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon

By Andrew Paul

Close-up of Gmail homepage on a monitor screen.
Technology

Gmail debuted on April Fool’s Day 20 years ago. The joke is still on us.

By Andrew Paul

Hand flipping through vinyl records at store
Technology

Vinyl records outsold CDs for the second year running

By Andrew Paul

Aerial view of Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown
Environment

Drones offer a glimpse inside Fukushima nuclear reactor 13 years after disaster

By Andrew Paul

Brewintosh Plus next to original Mac Plus
Technology

A designer 3D printed a working clone of the iconic Mac Plus

By Andrew Paul

Vernor Vinge
Science

Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died

By Andrew Paul

Timelapse of total solar eclipse showcasing Baily's beads
Science

NASA needs your smartphone during April’s solar eclipse

By Andrew Paul

Female hand with mobile phone on blurred night lights background
Technology

‘Cyberflasher’ sent to prison for the first time in England

By Andrew Paul

Woman talking with nurse chatbot on iPad
Technology

Silicon Valley wants to deploy AI nursebots to handle your care

By Andrew Paul

SpaceVIP SpaceBalloon above Earth concept art
Science

For nearly $500,000, you too can have dinner in the ‘SpaceBalloon’ above Earth

By Andrew Paul

Starship rocket launching during third test
Technology

Crypto scammers flooded YouTube with sham SpaceX Starship livestreams

By Andrew Paul

CCTV security camera operating in home.
Technology

Airbnb finally bans all indoor security cameras

By Andrew Paul

Google Earth Image of seismic center and truck road
Science

‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truck

By Andrew Paul

Passenger staying at self-scan TSA station
Technology

TSA is testing a self-screening security checkpoint in Vegas

By Andrew Paul

Vacuum moving towards two blocks with Wordpress and Tumblr logos
Technology

OpenAI wants to devour a huge chunk of the internet. Who’s going to stop them?

By Andrew Paul

Colorful cricket on green leaf
Science

NASA wants you to record crickets during April’s solar eclipse

By Andrew Paul

A total solar eclipse is seen on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, from onboard a NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Gulfstream III 25,000 feet above the Oregon coast. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina.
Science

Delta’s solar eclipse flight sold out, but your best bet to see it is still down here

By Andrew Paul

Sora AI generated video still of woolly mammoth herd in tundra
Technology

OpenAI’s Sora pushes us one mammoth step closer towards the AI abyss

By Andrew Paul

Edible soft robot on table
Technology

This edible, wriggling robot mimics experience of eating moving food

By Andrew Paul

Pink lab-grown beef rice in white bowl
Environment

Scientists swear their lab-grown ‘beef rice’ tastes ‘pleasant’

By Andrew Paul

Phobos creating partial solar eclipse on Mars, image taken by Perseverance rover
Science

A Martian solar eclipse turns the sun into a giant googly eye

By Andrew Paul

Destroyed Waymo on after attacked by vandals in San Francisco
Technology

A crowd torched a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco

By Andrew Paul

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI
Technology

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI

By Andrew Paul

Bluesky app logo on phone superimposed atop crowd of people
Technology

Twitter alternative Bluesky is now open to the public

By Andrew Paul

The latest emojis feature a mushroom, a phoenix, a lime, and more inclusive family options
Technology

The latest emojis feature a mushroom, a phoenix, a lime, and more inclusive family options

By Andrew Paul

Antique zimingzhong mechanical clock
Technology

It’s time to check out these incredible antique musical clocks

By Andrew Paul

Three screenshots of Tesla driver wearing Apple Vision Pro
Technology

Don’t worry, that Tesla driver only wore the Apple Vision Pro for ’30-40 seconds’

By Andrew Paul

Comcast Xfinity utility vehicle in parking lot
Technology

No, ’10G internet’ is not a thing

By Andrew Paul

In tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically associated with biologically inherited traits to physically conveyed communications.
Technology

Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages

By Andrew Paul