Science and Technolgy blog
It will soon be easy to “click to cancel” subscriptions after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted a final rule on Wednesday that makes it challenging for businesses to opt out of easy cancellation methods. “Too often, businesses make people…
A school district in Massachusetts was sued by a student’s parents after the boy was punished for using an artificial intelligence chatbot to complete an assignment. The lawsuit says the Hingham High School student handbook did not include a restriction…
Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were.
A surprise announcement from scientists involved in monitoring the solar cycle has finally confirmed that the sun’s most active and dangerous phase — solar maximum — is already well underway, and could continue for at least a year.
A recent study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders reveals a potential link between the presence of antibodies for the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and an increased risk of developing anxiety disorders. Researchers found that individuals with detectable antibodies to…
On Tuesday, Google announced that it had made a power purchase agreement for electricity generated by a small modular nuclear reactor design that hasn’t even received regulatory approval yet. Today, it’s Amazon’s turn. The company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) group…
On Monday, Hong Kong police announced the arrest of 27 people involved in a romance scam operation that used AI face-swapping techniques to defraud victims of $46 million through fake cryptocurrency investments, reports the South China Morning Post. The scam…
Researchers have uncovered a link between musical training and how the brain processes language in left-handed individuals. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, left-handed musicians were found to have a higher likelihood of atypical language lateralization, shifting…
It’s been exactly one year since the initial announcement of the Analogue 3D, an HD-upscaled, FPGA-powered Nintendo 64 in the tradition of Analogue’s long-running line or high-end retro machines. Today, Analogue is revealing more details about the hardware, which will…
Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.
