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“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.

Why the tech giant is so high on Heirloom Carbon

Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

In 2008, while working with Will Smith on the set of a film that never ended up getting made, Remington Scott had an epiphany. The visual effects director was watching Smith stand in a photogrammetry booth, with dozens of cameras capturing the actor’s facial features from every possible angle. “ ...

A small fraction of tropical tree leaves already pass the threshold, scientists estimate, and that number could grow under worst-case climate models.

A video of a driverless Tesla Model Y slowly crashing into a private jet worth around $3 million is going viral. Shared on Reddit, the user said that the car...

Stop trying to make AI copyrights happen. It is not going to happen.

Artists were supposed to keep getting paid. OpenSea is done with that.

Lawsuit: Sotheby's $24M sale to FTX gave Bored Ape NFTs "an air of legitimacy."

CounterCloud, a totally autonomous AI disinformation system, gives a glimpse into how AI and disinformation will work together in the future.

In our warming world, kids are running out of places to play safely.

The charity Cycling UK has released new analysis showing that the number of people killed while cycling, per billion miles, on British roads fell by nearly a quarter compared with pre-pandemic years.

A guide to how China, the EU and the US are reining in artificial intelligence.

As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. In this article, we present a comparative a

Contrails currently account for a third of global warming from aviation

This post is an exploration of the supply and demand of GPUs, particularly Nvidia H100s.

Andrew Gray is running for office in Selby and Ainsty on a manifesto generated by an artificial intelligence tool.

Users would be able to create deepfakes legitimately, sources told the Financial Times.

Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay’s lawsuit claims their books were used without their consent. But copyright protection doesn’t apply to ideas – they’ll need to demonstrate the likelihood of economic loss.

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.

Cities are the first line of defense in humanity’s battle against deadly heat. Bloomberg Green’s Hot Cities series looks at changes some of the world’s hottest cities are making to protect their people from extreme temperatures.

A cautionary tale for a world racing into renewables: The large majority of mini-grids in India no longer work, an environmental group found.

Introducing Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, while retaining web-scale capabilities. This work builds upon Robotic Transformer 1 (RT-1), a model trained on multi-task demonstrations which can learn combinations of tasks and objects seen in the robotic data. RT-2 shows improved generalisation capabilities and semantic and visual understanding, beyond the robotic data it was exposed to. This includes interpreting new commands and responding to user commands by performing rudimentary reasoning, such as reasoning about object categories or high-level descriptions.

Social media is abuzz with chatter about the material, but some scientists are pushing back on the hype.

Hylton Murray-Philipson says he contributed to gathering in Brazil because of growing climate threat

Wildfires have also engulfed popular Greek tourist destinations such as Corfu, Evia and Rhodes.

As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.