At a 7-Eleven convenience store in Taiwan, you can pick up a 4-inch plushie of Miffy, the bunny character from the Netherlands, a mini bento box charm complete with a realistic chicken drumstick, or a tiny plastic rotary phone. Produced by iCash Corporation (a 7-Eleven affiliate), these keychains are more than just trinkets: Each contains… Continue reading How Taiwan Made Cashless Payments Cute
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.2, its smartest artificial intelligence model yet, with performance gains across writing, coding, and reasoning benchmarks. The launch comes just days after CEO Sam Altman internally declared a “code red,” a company-wide push to improve ChatGPT amid intense competition from rivals. “We announced this code red to really signal to the company… Continue reading OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
The Disney-OpenAI Deal Redefines the AI Copyright War
On Thursday, Disney and OpenAI announced a deal that might have seemed unthinkable not so long ago. Starting next year, OpenAI will be able to use Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Ariel, and Yoda in its Sora video-generation model. Disney will take a $1 billion stake in OpenAI, and its employees will get access to… Continue reading The Disney-OpenAI Deal Redefines the AI Copyright War
Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
Transportation Autonomous Cars The company’s chips, quoted at 1,600 trillion operations a second, will fuel a new push into self-driving cars for the EV company. The company’s chips, quoted at 1,600 trillion operations a second, will fuel a new push into self-driving cars for the EV company. by Andrew J. Hawkins Dec 11, 2025, 5:20… Continue reading Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
You can send live video to 911 from your Android phone in seconds now – here’s how
Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Android users can now share live video with 911 operators. The telecommunicator initiates the request. The feature is available on devices with Android 8 or higher. Calling 911 can be stressful, and effectively communicating details… Continue reading You can send live video to 911 from your Android phone in seconds now – here’s how
Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars
The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with the likes of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arguing that we should skip the Moon entirely in favor of the Red Planet — despite NASA already being deeply invested in returning astronauts to the lunar surface for the… Continue reading Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars
Baby delivered in Waymo continues proud tradition of not making it to the hospital
A pregnant woman in San Francisco gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi Monday night en route to UCSF Medical Center, marking the latest milestone in the driverless car saga that no one saw coming — except everyone with more than six months of experience behind the wheel of a ride-share vehicle. According to The SF… Continue reading Baby delivered in Waymo continues proud tradition of not making it to the hospital
Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fight a losing battle for our attention spans with all kinds of tech-enabled brainrot. Now, in a further assault to their sanity, AI models are generating so much slop that students and researchers keep coming into libraries and… Continue reading Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
Getty / Futurism The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded by hosts and distributed digitally to entertain or bring listeners up to date on the news. But with the advent of AI, tech companies are keen to stomp the essence out of what makes… Continue reading Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
True Classic Tees Deals for the 2025 Holidays: 25 Percent Off Crew Necks
This includes me. I’ve been wearing the heck out of True Classic’s black crew-neck, in the belief that the shirt makes a virtue out of a life well-enjoyed. And it apparently also includes WIRED senior editor Jeremy White. “To my shame,” averred White, “the ‘dad bod’ fit is perfect and the neck size is not… Continue reading True Classic Tees Deals for the 2025 Holidays: 25 Percent Off Crew Necks