A man of leisure from 700 years ago extols the virtues of asymmetry, imperfection and ephemerality.

Lawsuit will challenge legality of ‘department of government efficiency’, by alleging it violates federal rules Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) program is expected to be sued within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in. The…

A top Labour donor runs a hedge fund with shares in a private US healthcare giant which is making money from the UK's NHS crisis.

Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.

Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? As…

Automation skeptics ask: why humanoids? We’ve discussed many of the benefits and drawbacks of the robotics form factor, but Boston Dynamics’ latest electric Atlas video showcases one of the most under discussed factors: costumes. “Why build a humanoid…

Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With…

Saudi Arabia is preparing to begin construction work on its next giga-project: a cube-shaped skyscraper big enough to fit 20 Empire State Buildings.

Here’s what Vice President Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, crime, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medica...

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This election cycle, AI-generated images have proliferated on social media platforms after politically charged news events. They often spread partisan narratives rather than facts.

FEMA, a perennial target for conspiracy theorists, has faced an uptick in misinformation since Hurricane Helene struck. The Onion separates the myths from the facts surrounding the Federal Emergency M...

Dunleavy described Alaska as having an abundance of the resources that data centers are under fire for consuming in the Lower 48.

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and its high desert lakes, and even snow-capped mountain peaks. And in every…

Credit: Zayna SheikhOctober 16, 2024, Mountain View, CA — Scientists at the SETI Institute and partners from Penn State University used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to search for signs of alien…

Giant deep-sea tube worms. When the RV Knorr arrived above Galapagos Rift in 1977, a team of geologists, geochemists, and geophysicist, including Robert Ballard who would go on to locate the wreck …