Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in the product liability hot seat
It is a sad fact of online life that users search for information about suicide.…
Hollywood is suing yet another AI company. But there may be a better way to solve copyright conflicts
This week Disney, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros Discovery jointly sued MiniMax, a Chinese artificial…
New entanglement breakthrough links cores of atoms, brings quantum computers closer
Quantum entanglement — once dismissed by Albert Einstein as “spooky action at a distance” —…
Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies
Scams are nothing new – fraud has existed as long as human greed. What changes…
Smart textiles may soon be able to control devices or monitor health
Imagine adjusting the temperature of the air conditioning or skipping a song in your car,…
Court rulings increasingly demand scientific certainty – but that’s not always possible
Last month, courts on both sides of the Atlantic delivered a clear verdict: when classifying…
nobody knows exactly what it’s made of – now we’ve started to uncover the truth
The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of…
Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life
NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On…
Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple
Our understanding of female-male power relationships in animals has changed over time. Evolutionary biologists once…
How would Americans react if they learned AI was used for a speech, song, painting or news article?
Pew Research Center illustration; photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Artificial intelligence is now…