Air taxi startup Vertical Aerospace extends runway with $50mn lifeline
Vertical Aerospace has been thrown a crucial lifeline, staving off potential bankruptcy at the cash-strapped...
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Nvidia’s new AI audio model can synthesize sounds that have never existed
At this point, anyone who has been following AI research is long familiar with generative...
DOJ wraps up ad tech trial: Google is “three times” a monopolist
One of the fastest monopoly trials on record wound down Monday, as US District Court...
Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy
The Supreme Court signaled it may take up a case that could determine whether Internet...
OpenAI blamed NYT for tech problem erasing evidence of copyright abuse
OpenAI keeps deleting data that could allegedly prove the AI company violated copyright laws by...
Supreme Court to review 5th Circuit ruling that upends Universal Service Fund
The US Supreme Court will hear appeals of a 5th Circuit ruling that called Universal...
Raw milk recalled for containing bird flu virus, California reports
Bird flu virus has been found in a batch of raw—unpasteurized—milk sold in California, prompting...
Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable
Bloomberg reports that Sony is “in the early stages” of work on a fully portable...
$300 billion pledge at COP29 climate summit a “paltry sum”
The world’s most important climate talks were pulled back from the brink of collapse after...
How physics moves from wild ideas to actual experiments
Neutrinos are some of nature’s most elusive particles. One hundred trillion fly through your body...
After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell
It should have been a routine mission to ferry about three tons of food, fuel,...
Survivors mark 20th anniversary of deadly 2004 tsunami
In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the...
What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief
Beliefs are convictions of reality that we accept as true. They provide us with the...
Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet “monopoly” you’ve never heard of
US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have called...
Tweaking non-neural brain cells can cause memories to fade
“If we go back to the early 1900s, this is when the idea was first...