We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact. In February, President Joe Biden gave…
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Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the extinction of…
The July 5 launch of Threads, Instagram’s new social media platform, has met with considerable interest. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was…
Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such as whether superintelligent AI will wipe…
Cultivating one hectare of maize used to be an arduous task for Precious Banda, a farmer in Zambia. It would…
Most of us go online multiple times a day. About half of 18–29 year olds surveyed in a 2021 Pew Research Study said they…
If you’ve been online much recently, chances are you’ve seen some of the fantastical imagery created by text-to-image generators such…
A new social media trend has recently emerged in response to the materialistic nature of influencer culture: deinfluencing. This trend involves…
We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to be…
Scam calls using AI to mimic voices of people you might know are being used to exploit unsuspecting members of the public.…