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When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?

In 2007, the US was on the cusp of an economic recession, and Buddy Rizer was tasked with finding Loudoun County, Virginia, a new way to make money. Rizer’s earlier career as a radio DJ didn’t exactly make him an obvious candidate to find a solution, but he was looking for what he called a […]

NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.

Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.

James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear.

Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur…

The Unibook is a weird entry-level laptop for people with patience.

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child. Now there are two. Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…

Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.

Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size realization. “They were just quarried…

Google's new Pixels make some compromises but still manage to be good phones.

Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-­mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger. Online, she…

What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each other,…

Samsung didn't have to change much this year because its hardware is just that good.

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways they were…

As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.

"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."