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Students Keep Booing AI During Commencement Speeches, and Honestly, They Might Be Right
After years of being told the future belongs to AI and automation, students seem less than thrilled to hear it at commencement.
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The AI Boom Is Taking Over the U.S. Power Grid, and This Map Shows Where It’s Happening
A new map shows how thousands of data centers are spreading across the country and putting more pressure on the grid.
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This Guy Built a Personal Mosquito Defense System That Shoots Bugs With Real Lasers
The device uses the same broad idea as LiDAR systems in self-driving cars, only for backyard bloodsuckers.
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Someone Made a Fake Wikipedia for AI Hallucinations, and It’s Basically the Internet Eating Itself
Halupedia turns AI hallucinations into fake encyclopedia entries, which is funny until you remember the real internet is also doing this.
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Plume Creative/Getty Images Your Peace Sign Selfie Might Be Giving Scammers Your Fingerprints
Experts say high-res cameras and AI tools can help reconstruct fingerprint data from clear photos of your fingers.
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Sonmez Karakurt/Getty Images Here’s How Long You Can Use AI Before Your Brain Starts Rotting, According to Scientists
Go ahead and delete that AI app off your phone.
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Sean Gallup/Staff/Getty Images Some Kid Watched 13,000 Hours of YouTube in Class. Can We Admit Tech in Schools Was a Huge Mistake Now?
After years of treating screens like learning tools, schools are now confronting how easily they have become portals for distraction.
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NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty Images ChatGPT Just Got a Weird New List of Forbidden Topics (Including Gremlins)
The company reportedly had to tell ChatGPT to quit bringing up goblins, gremlins, and trolls unless absolutely necessary.
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Gremlin/Getty Images Why Researchers Are Making Self-Driving Cars Run Over Elephants
It turns out self-driving cars look better in predictable evaluations than they do when faced with the strange chaos of real roads.
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Kevin Frayer/Stringer/Getty Images Watching Robots Run a Half-Marathon Is Kind of Hilarious (One of Them Is Freakishly Fast Though)
It turns out a robot beating humans in a race is a lot less inspiring when outrunning people is literally what it was built for.
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Prego Wants to Record Your Dinner Conversations (and Store Them for All Time)
What a time to be alive.
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Dmitrii Marchenko/Getty Images Scientists Figured Out What Endless Scrolling Is Really Doing to Your Body
A new AI model can track the hidden physical strain of every swipe, tap, and thumb stretch your phone quietly demands.
