The ongoing incursion of artificial intelligence into every app, service, and facet of your life continues. Microsoft’s popular Android keyboard app SwiftKey lets you type by swiping across letters on the screen to generate words. Now, SwiftKey is getting a dose of chatbot to spice things up. Microsoft released its AI-enhanced Bing chatbot in February. Since then… Continue reading Microsoft Adds Bing Chat to SwiftKey Beta for Android
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NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
Tempo will also be able to track variations in pollution at the neighborhood scale. Lefer foresees this being especially useful for exposing environmental injustice, since lower-income and racially segregated areas are more likely to be near emissions sources, like ports and refineries. “And satellite data can show that,” he says. Weather forecasting will benefit, too: With… Continue reading NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
14 Best Deals: Fitness Gear, Ebikes, and Mechanical Keyboards
Longer days are here, as are warmer temperatures, and the beautiful annual unfolding of all the lush greenery and color nature concealed during the frigid months. Get out there and enjoy it. Whether your ideal workout is running the trails, biking the streets, or hitting the gym, we’ve got deals on our favorite gear to… Continue reading 14 Best Deals: Fitness Gear, Ebikes, and Mechanical Keyboards
Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’
Rivron’s laboratory was the first to create these embryo-like structures in 2018. His team showed that mouse stem cells can self-organize into structures that resemble a blastocyst, which forms five or six days after sperm fertilizes an egg. They dubbed the balls of cells “blastoids.” Then in 2021, several labs showed they could create human blastoids using stem cells.… Continue reading Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’
A Mug Shot Could Play Right Into Trump’s Hands
Much discussion around the Trump indictment has focused on whether the former president’s mug shot will be taken and released to the public. Such attention to a relatively routine part of criminal procedures reflects how much Americans value the mug shot, a contemporary digital artifact that causes intense public shame for most but for Trump could serve… Continue reading A Mug Shot Could Play Right Into Trump’s Hands
What Would Strategic Relocation from Charleston Look Like?
Given these real and growing risks to human flourishing, there is—just barely—time to be wiser. Looking at this future is like “looking down that railroad track and seeing that little light,” according to seasoned scientist Bob Perry. When he talks to skeptics, he says, “We all know that train is coming. By gosh, we got… Continue reading What Would Strategic Relocation from Charleston Look Like?
Sonos Era 300 Review: Stunning Spatial, Superior Sound
No, of course you don’t buy a speaker to look at it. But should your gaze fall upon your speaker while you’re enjoying its sound, ideally the sight of it shouldn’t make you wince. So it’s just as well that Era 300, the latest Sonos wireless speaker and the company’s first foray into spatial audio… Continue reading Sonos Era 300 Review: Stunning Spatial, Superior Sound
Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms
Software supply chain attacks, in which hackers corrupt widely used applications to push their own code to thousands or even millions of machines, have become a cybersecurity scourge, both insidious and potentially huge in the breadth of their impact. But the latest major software supply chain attack, in which hackers who appear to be working… Continue reading Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms
9 Best Earplugs (2023): For Concerts, Sleep, and Listening
You only get one pair of ears, so it’s a good idea to look after them—and a good set of earplugs can come in handy in all kinds of situations. A proper set is a much better solution for blocking out noise during the night than a pillow over the head and is more comfortable… Continue reading 9 Best Earplugs (2023): For Concerts, Sleep, and Listening
Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes
The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because gravity pulls clouds of gas and dust toward the center of mass. The same holds for black holes—or, to be more precise, the event horizons of black holes—which must, according to theory, be spherically shaped… Continue reading Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes