There are only two kinds of tweeters: winners and losers. The winners are still on the platform, winning. The losers, well, they’ve lost. They are the Sad People, for whom Twitter was a second home. They found influence there, and validation. Now they must, per their tribal allegiances, go.... Read more

Now is the time to start looking for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in clear, dark, moonless night skies as it prepares to pass by Earth. The Zwicky Transient Facility, aka ZTF, in Southern California discovered the dramatic object in March. It’d been speeding in the direction of the sun up until... Read more

The good news is, I’m a journalist, so I went ahead and asked some artists, researchers, and art critics what they made of the aesthetics of AI art. First up, I called Amelia Winger-Bearskin, an artist and professor at the University of Florida. Winger-Bearskin has been cataloging different visual trends... Read more

InfiniGods, a Web3 gaming studio founded by social and mobile industry veterans, today announced the public launch of InfiniMerge, a free-to-play merge game built with blockchain technology. The game is set in an ancient Greek landscape with a focus on building and adventure. It’s the first fruit of InfiniGods’... Read more

Enlarge / Excerpt of a 1923 cartoon that predicted a “cartoon dynamo” and “idea dynamo” that could create cartoon art automatically. The full cartoon is reproduced below. In 1923, an editorial cartoonist named H.T. Webster drew a humorous cartoon for the New York World newspaper depicting a fictional 2023... Read more

The US Office of Personnel Management, the government agency that manages civilian employees, is expanding efforts to attract tech industry talent to work in the federal workforce amid continuing layoffs at companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook parent Meta. OPM’s initiatives include plans to issue new pay guidance to... Read more

A major goal of the field of neuroprosthetics has focused on improving the lives of paralyzed patients by restoring their lost real-world abilities.  One example was the 2012 work by neuroscientists Leigh Hochberg and John Donoghue at Brown University. Their team trained two people with long-standing paralysis—a 58-year-old woman... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. During two years of lockdowns and home working, consumers flooded online to visit their favorite stores and buy items from cherished brands. Many were doing this for the first time. Less well documented is that something similar... Read more

Enlarge / DNS hijacking concept. Researchers have uncovered a malicious Android app that can tamper with the wireless router the infected phone is connected to and force the router to send all network devices to malicious sites. The malicious app, found by Kaspersky, uses a technique known as DNS... Read more