The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny. A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots and possibly military drones.…
The old app “still needs to be retired,” AcuRite tells us. Smart weather-monitoring device vendor AcuRite has delayed plans to force users onto a new companion app. The transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW, which AcuRite previously set for May 30, “has raised serious questions and concerns among…
“Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say.” NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine demands of 40 robotic science missions…
Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you’re chasing milliseconds. Among the ways Formula 1 has changed in the 21st century has been its adoption of driver-in-the-loop simulators. It all started in the early 2000s, probably at McLaren, maybe at Toyota or Ferrari; F1 teams are notoriously secretive about…
Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools. Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived. However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that period. Archaeologists…
Brutal self-assessment paints a picture of a Microsoft gaming division in crisis. Just 100 days ago, when new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma replaced long-serving executive Phil Spencer, she said she’d work to “understand what makes work and protect it.” Now, Sharma and Xbox Studios chief Matt Booty…
Alaska’s multibillion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities at risk. The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average. The National Science Foundation announced plans in May to…
Our ancestors’ genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers. We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that our genome is…
AI aside, Golden Gate includes a bunch of subtle-but-helpful improvements. Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to ask any Apple executive…
For days after the stunning incident, the ADA had doubled-down on the choice. Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a video Wednesday apologizing for the organization’s decision on Friday to forcefully remove five leading diabetes scientists from the association’s annual meeting. The scientists were ejected…
