23+ hour, 22+ min ago  (366+ words) Published Apr 9, 2026 1: 01 PM EDT Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, often appearing as large blocks that contain links to numerous gambling opportunities on the service. The bets often appear in the "For you" section of…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (592+ words) Published Apr 5, 2026 4: 15 PM EDT From the psilocybin in magic mushrooms to dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in toads to the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana, a wide variety of organisms can produce psychoactive substances, despite belonging to entirely different kingdoms. But what if a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (432+ words) Published Apr 1, 2026 10: 08 AM EDT Amid mounting scrutiny into AI usage creeping into the newspaper of record, the New York Times has cut ties with a freelance writer after discovering he turned to an AI model to help write a book…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (252+ words) Published Apr 1, 2026 9: 03 AM EDT The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they're spiking land temperatures for miles around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, new research suggests. The effect is so…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (450+ words) Published Mar 31, 2026 5: 02 PM EDT Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal to be cloned from a cell taken from an adult mammary gland almost 30 years ago, in 1996. Transitioning from cloning…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (465+ words) Published Mar 31, 2026 4: 14 PM EDT Smart glasses aren't just being used by juvenile pranksters and pickup artists to terrorize strangers, traumatize Meta's data labeling subcontractors in Kenya, and covertly receive advice while being cross-examined in court. As Rest of World reports,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (403+ words) Published Mar 28, 2026 12: 45 PM EDT Police technology is a major business in the US. Altogether, the law enforcement equipment market was valued at nearly $11. 7 billion in 2025, and as dystopian toys like self-driving squad cars and crime fighting drone hives make it…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (357+ words) Published Mar 17, 2026 1: 05 PM EDT Humanoid robots are rapidly gaining hype, from battlefields to the factory floor. But there are clear growing pains when it comes to sharing spaces with our new automaton friends. Just this month, a video circulated online…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (490+ words) Published Mar 13, 2026 10: 06 AM EDT Even as scrutiny of the Epstein files reaches a fever pitch, the controversial AI platform Character. AI is hosting chatbots based on the prolific sex criminal, as well as his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and "Epstein Island…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (416+ words) Published Mar 12, 2026 5: 38 PM EDT A robot in Macau was escorted away by cops after apparently startling an old lady who was later hospitalized, according to reports from the Macau Post and the South China Morning Post. Police told public broadcaster…...