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Even brief AI use could hurt your ability to think, a new study finds
A new study from researchers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, and UCLA found that even brief AI use can hurt your ability to problem-solve once the tool is taken away.
I put Gemini in charge of my Gmail, and it was eye-opening
I didn’t stop worrying about privacy, I just stopped letting it slow me down. And honestly, my inbox has never felt lighter.
US tech giants are laying off employees to spend on AI, China says it’s illegal over here
China is aggressively pushing AI adoption and simultaneously letting courts block companies from using it as a layoff excuse. The US isn't even asking the question.
Space data centers sound like a pipe dream. What if we put them on lamp posts?
A UK firm has signed a deal with Nigeria's Katsina State to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp posts that collectively function as a distributed AI data center, without using electricity from the grid.
Microsoft built an AI agent for laywers in Word. Let’s hope it doesn’t go berserk.
A new AI legal assistant is coming to Word as lawyers and courts continue to learn how costly fake chatbot citations can be.
ChatGPT just landed ads, Now, Google won’t rule out ads in Gemini app, of course.
Ads have started appearing inside ChatGPT, and Google is already leaving room for Gemini to follow. The chatbot ad era may be closer than users expected.
VR headsets can make you a better dancer, if you can look past gaming and streaming
Cornell’s DanXeReflect tool turns dance videos into interactive 3D avatars, offering performers a more immersive way to review movement, rehearse changes, and leave feedback.
AI nailed emergency diagnoses better than doctors in Harvard trials
A Harvard trial found OpenAI’s o1 model beat doctors at emergency triage diagnoses, showcasing AI’s promise as a second-opinion tool in hospitals.
1X shows off Neo humanoid robot helping humans make more of its kind
1X is moving toward scaled humanoid robot production, and its latest demo shows Neo already playing a role on the factory floor.
Amazon’s new AI shopping podcasts are going off the rails
Amazon’s AI-powered shopping feature now creates audio product summaries with interactive hosts, and early examples show how quickly useful summaries can turn into awkward infomercials.
Indoor solar panels to power your gadgets? A team just proved it can be done safely
Researchers have developed lead-free indoor solar panels that convert artificial light into electricity with record-breaking efficiency.
You can now protect your ChatGPT account with a special USB-key
OpenAI's new Advanced Account Security lets you ditch passwords entirely and lock your ChatGPT account with a physical USB key — and it's available right now.
Your car’s Google Assistant is going away, and this is what replaces it
Google is bringing Gemini to cars, promising more natural conversations and smarter in-car assistance that actually understands what you mean.
It seems the future of Vision Pro headset has been sealed at Apple
Apple has quietly walked away from the Vision Pro, disbanding its internal team and shelving future models — marking a costly end to the company's most ambitious and least successful product in years.
Every call you make is drawing a map of your city and it just might fix our traffic woes
A team of researchers has built a tool that maps how cities actually function — using nothing but anonymous cell phone data.
KitKat has a special chocolate wrapper that cuts off your phone from the outside world
KitKat has unveiled a chocolate wrapper that doubles as a Faraday cage, blocking all phone signals the moment your device slides inside.
Snapchat’s new ad format makes AI chatbots sound like salespeople
Snapchat’s AI Sponsored Snaps may look like a new ad format, but they also show how quickly chatbots are moving from answering complaints to chasing sales.
This tiny brain implant could treat depression at home
Motif Neurotech just got FDA approval to trial a tiny brain implant for treating depression, and the whole thing can be implanted in just 20 minutes.
Spotify apparently has no solid plan to label AI-generated music
Spotify has half a billion listeners, a recommendation engine that knows your mood better than your therapist — and apparently, no real plan to tell you if what you're hearing was made by a human or a chatbot on a Tuesday afternoon.
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Glasses have leaked, and the looks don’t impress
Android Headlines published the first real images of Samsung's Galaxy Glasses, featuring plain matte-black frames running Android XR with Gemini AI and a 12MP Sony camera.
Meta’s latest outrageous deal is getting solar power beamed even at night from satellites
Meta has signed a deal with startup Overview Energy to receive up to one gigawatt of solar power beamed from a fleet of 1,000 satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
Controversial AI software is now helping find corrupt and slacking officers
The Met Police used controversial Palantir AI software to scan internal data, flagging hundreds of officers over suspected corruption, misconduct, attendance breaches, and undeclared links.
Forget smartwatches, your clothes could soon track your health
A new smart fabric powered by your phone has the potential to quietly replace wearable health trackers as we know them.
DeepSeek V4 is out, touting some disruptive wins over Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude
DeepSeek V4 launched April 24, 2026, with two open-source models that rival closed-source leaders on coding and agentic benchmarks, at up to 9x lower API costs than OpenAI and Anthropic.
The days of ugly solar panels could finally be over. Say hello to artsy colorful tiles!
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have developed ShadeCut, a technology that applies patterned colored films to solar panels to mimic roof tiles, masonry, or custom designs.
Sony’s table tennis robot made me think about what happens when AI gets a body
Sony’s table tennis robot looks like a lab flex with a paddle. The real story starts when AI stops answering prompts and learns to move through our world.
Scientists pretended to be delusional in AI chats. Grok and Gemini encouraged them.
esearchers tested five major AI chatbots with a simulated user showing signs of psychosis. Some made things worse. Others told the user to log off and call someone.
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