io9, via Gizmodo, is featuring a new short story from Lightspeed Magazine. “Mother’s Hip” by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff is a bleak, emotional tale of a transformed veteran of Amazon’s rainforest wars.
Forget AI replacing jobs in healthcare. A new perspective suggests that in behavioral health, AI’s real role is to support clinicians by removing administrative burdens. The goal is to free up therapists and providers to focus more on the human connection that drives healing.
Meta is buying AI startup Manus for over $2 billion, a deal now under review by Beijing. It underscores a stark reality: US venture capital funding dwarfs China’s, pushing startups to relocate.
In a response to a recent essay, professors Daniel Sargent and Will Fithian push back against the idea that universities should abandon neutrality. They argue that institutional statements, like UC’s on the Dobbs case, are a hollow overreach that damages academic credibility.
For the first time, a closed-loop geothermal system has delivered electricity to a commercial power grid. Eavor’s project in Germany proves the tech can work at scale, bypassing many of geothermal’s old problems.
Schmidt Sciences, founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is funding a new suite of observatories. The centerpiece is Lazuli, a space telescope with a 3-meter mirror aiming to launch by mid-2028 for just hundreds of millions of dollars.
TCL is pushing AI as the central operating system for the entire home, from a 10,000-nit TV to smart appliances and a companion robot. The vision is ambitious, but turning a TV brand into a home AI overlord is a massive challenge. Here’s what they showed off and why it might be a tough sell.
Razer is teasing a collaboration with the legendary mecha anime franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion. The move follows other tech crossovers from Asus, Nvidia, and Casio, celebrating the series’ enduring 30-year legacy since its 1995 debut.
In a recent earnings call, Albertsons executives detailed how AI is being embedded across the company. The standout result so far is a 10% lift in basket size from customers using its new AI shopping assistant.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is publicly supporting a forthcoming bill from Rep. Ritchie Torres aimed at banning insider trading by government officials on prediction markets. This comes after a trader on rival platform Polymarket netted over $400,000 on a suspiciously timed trade about a political even
