The Nothing Phone 2 is a welcome addition to the upper mid-range category, bringing high-end power to an affordable package, with a unique design and lighting feature that makes it stand out from the competition in its price range. It brings solid improvements over its predecessor and is also more easily available in the US … Read more
On Jan. 29, Asian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Year of the Snake with community carnivals, family gatherings, parades, traditional food, fireworks and other festivities. In many Asian countries, it is a festival that is celebrated for several days. In diaspora communities, particularly in cultural enclaves, Lunar New Year is visibly and joyfully … Read more
News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond Earth is “only a matter of time,” we were told in September 2023. “We are close” was a headline from September … Read more
G/O Media is once again attempting to use AI to churn out content — while simultaneously warning that anything the AI produces might be littered with mistakes. As first reported by The Aftermath, the G/O Media-owned business news site Quartz is grinding out AI-generated articles under the byline “Quartz Intelligence Newsroom.” Its articles, penned in bland and formulaic text, … Read more
Every now and again, life deals you a curveball. In the case of US tech, it was DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that caused a meltdown the likes of which we’ve never seen before. News of DeepSeek has ruled the airwaves over the last couple days following the release of powerful new AI models that … Read more
The world’s largest gathering of mathematicians convened in Seattle from Jan. 8 to Jan. 11 — 5,444 mathematicians, 3,272 talks. This year the program diverged somewhat from the its traditional kaleidoscopic panorama. An official theme, “Mathematics in the Age of A.I.,” was set by Bryna Kra, the president of the American Mathematical Society, which hosts … Read more
For almost a century, migratory flyways have been a cornerstone of bird conservation. Knowing where these aerial highways are helps protect habitats and monitor species through carefully mapped routes that connect breeding, feeding and resting grounds. But birds aren’t the only kinds of animals taking vast treks. Freshwater fish do, too. Unlike birds, whose flight … Read more
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images The emergence of Chinese AI app DeepSeek has shocked financial markets, and prompted US President Donald Trump to describe it as “a wake-up call” for the US tech industry. DeepSeek’s claim that its R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model was made at a fraction of the cost of its rivals … Read more
Caption:“Perception is a big bottleneck toward getting robots to help us in the real world,” Luca Carlone says. “If we can add elements of cognition and reasoning to robot perception, I believe they can do a lot of good.” Credit: Bryce Vickmark Robots have come a long way since the Roomba. Today, drones are starting … Read more
Apple today released iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, the third major updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 software that came out last year. iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 come six weeks after Apple released iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2. The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going … Read more
