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Journalists have been busy marveling at the spectacle of AI, but they need to be wary of a corporate shift towards media automation.

The AI will have to understand various dialects and accents while cutting through background noise like music or people chatting in the backseat.

Amid reports of Stability AI’s financial struggles, the AI company is now pivoting to selling its more advanced Stable Diffusion model to companies like Amazon.

As Disney plans even more reboots and Shrek plots a fifth film, it's time to start being more selective about what gets brought back.

Called LOOP, the Airbus design calls for a greenhouse, a gym, and a centrifuge to simulate gravity.

Week 6: Blocking them all

Climate models are usually run on supercomputers. But Amazon has donated cloud computing time to run a model—with a twist.

HGTV and Netflix stars are the newest spokespeople for fossil fuel campaigns.

A pair of studies examines ways to break down plastic, but there may be risks in trying to amplify these natural processes.

The dolls form a singing choir that pays homage to the company's first musical project from 15 years ago.

For every major leap in technology, there have been plenty of face plants, ill-advised cash grabs, and just plan bad tech. So here are the gadgets and technology that absolutely screwed the pooch.

In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home.” I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my…

Three years ago, we said the Echo was “the most innovative device Amazon’s made in years.” That’s still true. But you shouldn’t buy one. You shouldn’t buy one for your family. You definitely should…

One of the world’s largest toy makers, Mattel, has long embraced the idea of helping kids build their own toys. Back in the 1960s, the company released the very first ThingMaker, which let kids create figurines by pouring liquid plastic into molds and then heating them up in an oven. Now, Mattel thinks it can bring back the toymaker movement with its own affordable 3D printer.

The agency is funding research projects to find ways to boost people's resilience to extreme cold.

The new legislation is a big adjustment in decades-old drug testing requirements.

In a set of experiments, researchers examined emotional contagion in social zebrafish. The results have big implications for the roots of empathy.

Sargassum algae is having an early, potentially record-breaking bloom in the tropical Atlantic this year. It's a problem for tourism and coastal ecosystems.

In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) researchers see the possibility of using the data from your browsing, search, and purchase history to create a more accurate mechanism for determining the credit…

An anti-fungal molecule produced by the Streptomyces bacteria could enable supercharged biofuels.

Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk want to make "space tourism" a thing. This could jumpstart a pointless industry that's totally unsustainable.

«Virgin Galactic, we can estimate that carbon emissions per passenger mile are about 60 times that of a business class flight»

When you buy a device that requires proprietary software to run, the money you hand over is an entry fee, nothing more.

«The reality is when you buy a device that requires proprietary software to run, you don’t own it. The money you hand over is an entry fee, nothing more.»

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides have evolved to become very component online productivity tools, enabling you to churn out documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any computer (with other…

Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends,…

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Gizmodo identified 32 brokers selling data on 2.9 billion profiles of U.S. residents pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products."