College students are noticing their AI-smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them
Generative AI has become a part of everyday student life in Canada. While institutions focus…
Instagram can now read all users’ private messages. Will this make kids safer or just boost ad targeting?
As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram.…
Pet loss is difficult for people – what about for other pets?
I recently lost one of my cocker spaniels, Bobbi. She was fit, healthy and active,…
Conspiracy theorists are building AI interfaces to the Epstein files – and presenting their views as data analysis
Jeffrey Epstein’s death on Aug. 10, 2019, sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories, and the…
Humidity and heat are killers for tropical birds – waxbill and hornbill studies highlight the dangers
Humans are not the only species negatively affected by increasingly hot and humid conditions. Intense…
Back to school: robots learn from factory workers
What if training a robot to handle dirty, dangerous work on the factory floor was…
Is Richard Dawkins right about Claude? No. But it’s not surprising AI chatbots feel conscious to us
In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may…
What adults get wrong about adolescents’ civic contributions
A teenager scrolls through their phone at the dinner table, barely looks up and answers…
An arms race over disinformation: using AI to detect AI
Last winter, as Christmas markets opened across Europe, social media was flooded with alarming videos.…
Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works
The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859. On board…