A new chapter in the electric vehicle (EV) sector has begun, as two Chinese car manufacturers recently unveiled sodium-ion–powered EVs, moving away from lithium, the metal that has transformed the industry. This technological breakthrough has led to concerns about Western companies losing their grip on sodium-ion battery innovation in... Read more

If you want to pick up a budget-friendly Apple Watch that isn’t the Watch SE, the Watch Series 8 is an excellent alternative. While the Watch Series 9 is out of stock for the time being, the older generation is still pretty good, and you can save quite a... Read more

In a memo published in November 2023, Norwegian law firm Wilkborg Rein said that passing the bill with an inadequate environmental assessment could violate not only the country’s own laws on environmental protection, but also European and international laws. Local communities or NGOs could therefore sue, says Elise Johansen,... Read more

Last month, I reported on the widening web of connections between the effective altruism (EA) movement and AI security policy circles — from top AI startups like Anthropic to DC think tanks like RAND Corporation. These are linking EA, with its laser-focus on preventing what its adherents say are... Read more

Benj Edwards | Getty Images Imagine downloading an open source AI language model, and all seems well at first, but it later turns malicious. On Friday, Anthropic—the maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude—released a research paper about AI “sleeper agent” large language models (LLMs) that initially seem normal but can... Read more

GameStop has announced that effective February 2, its non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace will be shut down, and users will no longer be able to buy, sell, or create NFTs using the platform. 2021 was a wild year for GameStop as it became one of the most popular meme stocks... Read more

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Earlier this year, Parkinson’s disease (PD) research entered a new era when the Michael J. Fox Foundation announced a momentous scientific breakthrough—the discovery of a biomarker for PD. It meant that, for the first time ever, we can now pinpoint the earliest known signs of the disease in Parkinson’s... Read more

Today, almost every enterprise wants to jump on the generative AI bandwagon. They are building interesting new solutions and are bullish on the prospects of the foundation models. However, according to a new survey of global CEOs conducted by PwC, despite all major benefits, this much-hyped technology can also... Read more

Enlarge / The Swarovski Optik Visio binoculars, with an excerpt of a 2014 xkcd comic strip called “Tasks” in the corner. xckd / Swarovski Last week, Austria-based Swarovski Optik introduced the AX Visio 10×32 binoculars, which the company says can identify over 9,000 species of birds and mammals using... Read more