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Enlarge / Generative AI Alexa asked to make a taco poem. (credit: Amazon News/YouTube) The previously announced generative AI version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant “will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models,” Reuters reported today. This comes…
Enlarge / A recall notice is posted next to Boar’s Head meats that are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024, in San Rafael, California. (credit: Getty | Justin Sullivan) Federal inspections found 69 violations—many grisly—at the Boar’s…
Enlarge / “You’ll never be bored again” is one of the more fitting slogans attached to Tumblr. (credit: Getty Images) Once-great social media and blogging platform Tumblr has gone through a number of big changes in recent years, and another…
Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at Tesla’s “Cyber Rodeo” on April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (credit: Getty Images | AFP/Suzanne Cordeiro) A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled that Elon Musk’s X Corp. can continue its lawsuit…
De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.
Finding the universe’s brightness is essential for confirming our theories of what makes up the universe. But to do so, scientists had to send a spacecraft far away from our sun.
A new study from Russian scientists claims that the unexpected detonation of SpaceX’s Starship rocket during a test flight in November 2023 tore an “ionospheric hole” in the upper atmosphere. It is the first time this type of hole has…
NASA scientists have discovered a planet-wide electric field surrounding Earth, confirming a 60-year-old hypothesis. Studying the field could yield some vital information about how our planet’s atmosphere has evolved.
Enlarge / The feeling when you know your ball is just gonna get buried in there is so satisfying! (credit: Red Nexus Games) Remember Peggle? If you were lucky enough to play this deceptively deep pachinko-meets-bagatelle game in the late…
The new AI system can estimate cosmological parameters with stunning precision, and it could help astronomers unpick one of the thorniest problems in the field.
