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Fletcher Reveley / Undark
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Disney finally relinquishes ‘Steamboat’ Mickey Mouse to public domain after testy 95 years
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Katherine Isbister / MIT Press
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Dec 23, 2023
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter set a new flight distance record on Mars
Apple may owe you some cash after settling a false advertising lawsuit
Watch an AI-leveraging robot beat humans in this classic maze puzzle game
Rite Aid can’t use facial recognition technology for the next five years
Tech trade group sues over ‘unconstitutional’ Utah teen social media curfew law
Taters the cat stars in first ‘ultra-HD’ video sent from deep space
You may not be able to buy the latest Apple Watches after December 24th
Porsche’s best-selling Macan SUV Goes Electric in 2024
Health misinformation is rampant on social media
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Monica Wang / The Conversation
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Dec 17, 2023
Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully tests satellite space lasers
This new synthetic material is nearly as durable as diamonds
Voyager 1 is sending back bad data, but NASA is on it
Why scientists are making transparent wood
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Jude Coleman / Knowable Magazine
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Dec 14, 2023
New UK guidelines for judges using AI chatbots are a mess
Tesla’s Optimus robot can now squat and fondle eggs
Tesla’s latest Autopilot recall update affects nearly every vehicle in the US
EU’s powerful AI Act is here. But is it too late?
A ‘brain organoid’ biochip displayed serious voice recognition and math skills
Law enforcements can obtain prescription records from pharmacy giants without a warrant
New Zealand’s quest to save its rotund, flightless parrots
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Rina Diane Caballar / Knowable Magazine
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Dec 12, 2023
This Texas startup wants to rescue old gas-powered cars with simplified EV conversions
Bacterial ‘blood’ could heal cracks in concrete
Leaning into the thrills: Audio-Technica microphones and the dynamic soundscapes of MotoGP
Even lab mice are getting VR headsets now
Amazon cuts Venmo payment option barely a year after enabling it
The best double DIN head units of 2023
Default end-to-end encryption is finally coming to Messenger and Facebook
Generative AI could face its biggest legal tests in 2024
Google announces Gemini, its ‘multimodal’ answer to ChatGPT
Meet NeRmo, the mouse robot with backbone
Swapping surgical bone saws for laser beams
YouTuber sentenced to prison after intentionally crashing his plane
Kia’s EV9 can power an average home and then some
23andMe says a data breach affected nearly half of its 14 million users
The world’s largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor is up and running
Digitized records from wildlife centers show the most common ways that humans harm wild animals
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Tara K. Miller and Richard B. Primack / The Conversation
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Dec 3, 2023
Will AI render programming obsolete?
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Michael L. Littman / MIT Press
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Dec 2, 2023
Watch this eel robot effortlessly glide underwater
The first Tesla Cybertrucks have arrived
Facebook watches teens online as they prep for college
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Colin Lecher and Ross Teixeira / The Markup
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Dec 1, 2023
Meet ‘anthrobots,’ tiny bio-machines built from human tracheal cells
Scientists are developing a handheld eye-scanner for detecting traumatic brain injury
Fiber optic cables can pick up cicadas’ droning din
US military says national security depends on ‘forever chemicals’
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Patricia Kime / KFF Health News
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Nov 30, 2023
Geothermal energy now helps power Google’s desert data centers
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Toyota just electrified its popular compact pickup