If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard. In early June, shortly after the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, Google unveiled a new model designed specifically to forecast the tracks and intensity of tropical cyclones. Part of the Google DeepMind suite of…
Project was 80 percent complete and was slated to power more than 350,000 homes. The Trump administration on Friday issued an order to stop work on a nearly complete offshore wind energy project, the latest step in the Trump administration’s crackdown on wind power. In a letter to Orsted,…
Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport. Android’s open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its next security initiative could…
Breaches in 2020 and 2025, reportedly by foreign adversaries, exposed confidential files. US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s electronic case…
OpenAI slams Musk’s lawsuit as part of his “ongoing pattern of harassment.” After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple’s “Must Have” app list—which…
Users of X3D CPUs in ASRock motherboards seem to be at particularly high risk. AMD’s X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips’ extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra…
A new tool lets you explore how much a vehicle would emit in every county of the US. Greenhouse gas reduction is no longer a priority for the US government, but if you’re looking for a new vehicle and want to buy something with the lowest life cycle carbon…
Mexican tetras in pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. Time and again, whenever a population was swept into a cave and survived long enough for natural selection to have its way, the eyes disappeared. “But it’s not that everything has been lost in cavefish,” says…
“The boost kit will help sustain the orbiting lab’s altitude, starting in September.” SpaceX completed its 33rd cargo delivery to the International Space Station early Monday, when a Dragon supply ship glided to an automated docking with more than 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and provisions for the lab’s…
Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist. Allan Brooks, a 47-year-old corporate recruiter, spent three weeks and 300 hours convinced he’d discovered mathematical formulas that could crack encryption and build levitation machines. According to a New York Times investigation, his million-word conversation history with…
