AI could enable businesses—and eventually entire industries—to achieve tenfold or greater productivity with the same workforce. That would change the cost of goods and services, the value of skills, and which companies dominate. The Industrial Revolution shows how transformations of…
Tesla likely has over or near 500 vehicles in Austin. Tesla says 300+ cybercab in Austin. robotaxitracker.com crowdsourced says 105 cybercab and 170 Model Y. This would mean 300 cybercab and 170+ Model Y in Austin. The total unsupervised in…
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory may have found a dramatically more efficient route to fusion energy by reversing the traditional approach: heating plasma first, then increasing its density. Their calculations could help future reactors reach self-sustaining fusion with far less energy…
A large study suggests loneliness and social isolation can cost people years of healthy life, especially when it comes to mental health. Men experiencing both lost about 5.8 years free from depression and anxiety, while women lost roughly 3.7 years.
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre star system about 300 light-years from Earth where a small star is slowly devouring a nearby brown dwarf, an object too massive to be a planet but too small to be a true star. Unlike…
A short course of immunotherapy before surgery may offer remarkably durable protection for some patients with stage two or three bowel cancer. In the NEOPRISM-CRC trial, 32 patients with a specific genetic form of bowel cancer received pembrolizumab for up…
A senator who once fought against the proliferation of prediction markets before they took off in popularity has done a complete U-turn by becoming a lobbyist for gambling platform Kalshi. As Ars Technica reports, former senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) perfectly…
Over a century ago, in 1904, a necrotrophic fungus known as chestnut blight swept across North America, brought across the Pacific on the back of chestnut trees from Japan and China. With no natural resistance to the fungal scourge, the once-plentiful chestnut…
Apple hasn’t exactly impressed with its AI offerings. And privacy-minded Mac users were even less compelled by the company’s decision, with macOS 27, to remove a setting that allowed you to disable and delete its Apple Intelligence features. But never…
The overly-serious eggheads at Anthropic are adamant that they’ve “solved” a problem that’s been plaguing humankind since time immemorial: humor. At least, that’s according to former employee Jacob Coxon, best known as the guy who quit Anthropic and claimed that…