• Majority of young worry AI will be used to make inappropriate images

    Three in five young people say they are worried about artificial intelligence (AI) being used to make inappropriate pictures of them, a survey has found, as more and more teenagers report they are using AI. More than one in 10 (12 per cent) teenagers aged 13 to 17 said they have already seen people their…

  • As Wisconsin weighs who should pay, another possible billion-dollar data center emerges

    A site in the Driftless Area in southwest Wisconsin is being eyed for a possible $1 billion data center, just as the state considers who should pay to provide the unprecedented amount of electricity such projects need. It would be the eighth major data center known to have been proposed in Wisconsin, though one of…

  • This might be the Marantz combo most people should be looking at

    Marantz has been on a strong run lately. It’s been a little over a year and a half since the company introduced its flagship AV 10, a 15.4-channel processor, alongside the AMP 10, a 16-channel power amplifier rated at 200 watts into 8 ohms. That pairing has earned plenty of praise here on the forums.…

  • Amazon Prime Air drone crashes into Texas apartment building

    An Amazon Prime Air delivery drone crashed into a Texas apartment building last week, with the incident caught on a bystander’s video. The drone crash occurred in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas, on Feb. 4 when a Prime Air MK30 drone collided with the side of the apartment building and crashed to the ground. FOX…

  • Bioengineers build branched, perfusable kidney collecting ducts using 3D bioprinting

    The human kidney filters about a cup of blood every minute, removing waste, excess fluid, and toxins from it, while also regulating blood pressure, balancing important electrolytes, activating Vitamin D, and helping the body produce red blood cells. This broad range of functions is achieved in part via the kidney’s complex organization. In its outer…

  • Our view: Why the futile fines when drones can solve dumping?

    The House last week passed a law providing for stiffer fines for fly-tipping but at the same time MPs cautioned that lax enforcement makes the legislation moot. Under the changes, the out-of-court fine issued by an inspector goes from €4,000 to €8,000, whereas the maximum fine issued by a chief inspector increases from €20,000 to…

  • Russia’s ‘cyborg’ spy pigeons

    For thousands of years, humans have trained pigeons to race, deliver messages and “spy behind enemy lines”, said Bloomberg. “What would happen if people could bypass the training and steer their bird brains instead?” A Russian neurotechnology company linked to Vladimir Putin’s daughter is claiming to do just that, said The Times. Scientists at Neiry…

  • Former FBI agent says Nancy Guthrie’s Apple Watch holds clues to what happened before her abduction

    A clue saying a lot more than it seems may have been sitting right in Nancy Guthrie’s bedroom. Investigators have said Guthrie’s pacemaker app showed a key moment in the hours surrounding her disappearance: the pacemaker connection to her phone disconnected around 2:30 a.m., a timeline detail law enforcement has pointed to in the abduction…

  • Elon Musk’s go-to banker is back in action for the SpaceX IPO

    Michael Grimes, the longtime Morgan Stanley rainmaker, spent years laying the groundwork for his bank to land a role leading the initial public offering of Elon Musk’s rocket maker SpaceX. But by the time Musk finally decided to take SpaceX public, Grimes was working in the Commerce Department, having followed the billionaire to Washington, D.C.…

  • Google just dropped a Gmail bombshell everyone must see now

    Google is quietly rewriting the rules of Gmail, and this time it is not a cosmetic tweak or a new sidebar. The company is rolling out artificial intelligence inside the inbox, letting people change long‑standing addresses, and ripping out some legacy features that power users have relied on for years. For more than 2 billion…