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I read this story on Canary Media with interest – “Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple’s $1M Kickstarter proves it. Canary chats with the co-creators of the forthcoming video gam…

Australian design student Alexander Burton has developed a prototype kit for cheaply converting petrol or diesel cars to hybrid electric.

Researchers’ analysis of DNA suggests housing circumstances ‘get under the skin’ and are associated with significant health consequences

The posting of the audio on the first day of Labour conference comes amid stark warnings of the threat AI poses to democracy.

Sam Woods, head of the Bank’s financial stability watchdog, says lenders have only shown they can survive ‘slow burn’ changes to temperatures

Scientists are scouring garbage sites around the world for bacteria, fungi and even insects that harbor enzymes that could be harnessed for breaking down various polymers. It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.

Volvo’s last diesel-powered car will roll out next year as the Swedish automaker looks toward an all-electric future. As one...

Find could point to new ways to prospect for material in high demand for batteries.

“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.