Author: showrunner
Do Animals Dream and How Can We Tell?
Anyone with a dog probably takes for granted the existence of animal dreams. Watch your pup’s legs pound the air as they yip drowsily, and…
The Rock Band Carrie Underwood’s 8-Year-Old Son LOVES
In a SiriusXM interview with Jose Mangin, country/pop superstar Carrie Underwood, who is currently on the road opening for Guns N’ Roses, spoke about her…
AI Can Be An Extraordinary Force For Good—if It’s Contained
In a quaint Regency-era office overlooking London’s Russell Square, I cofounded a company called DeepMind with two friends, Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, in the…
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
It’s easy to trick the large language models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In one experiment in February, security researchers forced Microsoft’s…
A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm
“V. vulnificus is only active at a temperature that’s above 13 degrees Celsius, and then it becomes more prevalent up until the temperature reaches 30…
Autonomous Driving Goes Into High Gear
Lauren Goode: Well, a medium duty truck would be between 10,000 and 25,000 pounds. A semi-truck, more than that. The US does have a federal…
India’s Lunar Lander Has Detected ‘Movement’ on The Moon: Is It Seismic Activity?
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission may have just recorded the first seismic data on the Moon since the 1970s. If confirmed to be natural seismic data, it…
German DNA Study Finds Living Descendants of Skulls Stolen From African Colony
Researchers have identified living relatives in Tanzania of people whose skulls were pillaged and taken to Germany during the colonial era, Berlin’s museum authority said…
A Lunar Orbiter Just Spotted The Landing Site of Chandrayaan-3
The site on the lunar south pole where the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made its historic Moon landing can be seen in a new…
The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet
Plenty of other ideas have also been tacked onto the bill. The current text includes age checks for porn sites and measures against scam ads…