Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic flame retardants from electronics wind up in some household products made of black plastic, including kitchen utensils. The study sparked a flurry of media reports a few weeks ago that urgently implored people Read more…
Dr Mike Perkins, a generative AI researcher at British University Vietnam, believes there are “significant limitations” to AI detection software. “All the research says time and time again that these tools are unreliable,” he told me. “And they are very easily tricked.” His own investigation found that AI detectors could Read more…
Apple is preparing a series of major design and format changes to its lineup of iPhones and potentially other products, a bid to revive growth after years of offering largely incremental upgrades. Starting next year, Apple plans to introduce an iPhone that will be thinner than the approximately 8-millimeter profile Read more…
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son will announce a $100 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years during a Monday visit to President-elect Donald Trump’s residence Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC’s Sara Eisen. The billionaire investor and founder of the Japanese tech-investing Read more…
Scientist have unlocked the secret to a bacteria dubbed ‘Conan the Bacterium’ which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most radiant-resistant life-form. Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses 28,000 times greater than that which would kill a human [and every other organism]. In addition, this Read more…
Proposals for a tunnel connecting the U.K. to the U.S. underneath the Atlantic Ocean have resurfaced, but with a price tag of almost $20 trillion, the project is a big ask. With the two global cities being over 3,000 miles apart, construction would take several years — the 23.5-mile Channel Read more…
Nearly half of American teenagers say they are online “constantly,” according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. The report was based on a survey of 1,391 U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 conducted from Sept. 18 to Oct. 10, 2024. As in past years, YouTube was the Read more…