Innovation
A Radical Cure for Internet Addiction Brings Chilling Consequences in This Dystopian Story
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Reality Check” by Nancy Kress....
Anthropic CEO weighs in on AI bubble talk and risk-taking among competitors | TechCrunch
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his thoughts on if the AI industry was in a bubble at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. This was in addition...
Gizmodo Consumer Tech Editor Raymond Wong’s 8 Most Underrated Tech Gifts
I know you’re probably sick of gift guides by now, and I don’t blame you. Gizmodo has been thoughtfully cranking them out. We’ve got our recommendations for the best...
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
The Louisiana Department Of Wildlife And Fisheries (LDWF), typically responsible in part for overseeing wildlife reserves and enforcing local hunting rules, has assisted United States immigration authorities with bringing...
New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants | TechCrunch
Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn — a startup valued at more than $1 billion. The startup raised €500 million in fresh...
Germaphobes, Rejoice! Airplane and Hospital Air Is Actually Pretty Clean, Study Claims
If you’re looking to avoid getting sick, chances are you’ll steer clear from visiting a hospital or traveling by plane—environments packed with people and their germs. A new study,...
An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design
The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games...
Waymo starts autonomous testing in Philadelphia | TechCrunch
Waymo is adding another four cities to its growing list of robotaxi rollouts. The company announced Wednesday it has begun testing its autonomous vehicles (with a safety monitor) in...
Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World
The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them all with a single glance. A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany...
Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing
A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote...
