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Is the “million-year-old” skull from China a Denisovan or something else?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 16:14:52

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three unearthed from a terrace alongside the Han River, in central China, in a layer of river sediment somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million years old. Archaeologists originally identified them as Homo erectus, but Hanjiang Normal University paleoanthropologist Xiaobo Feng and his colleagues’ recent digita

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China Unveils EV That Can Violently Eject Its Battery in Case of a Fire

futurism.com Victor Tangermann 2025-10-05 05:15:00

Electric vehicle fires are notoriously difficult to put out and require copious amounts of water to extinguish. It’s one of the less awesome aspects of EVs, and one that can have devastating consequences for any drivers unfortunate enough to get in an accident. In response, Chinese engineers have come up with a surprising — and chaotic — solution. In collaboration with the China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center, engineers developed an EV battery ejection system that shoot

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Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 06:44:49

MICHAEL C. HOROWITZ is Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation at the Council on Foreign Relations and Richard Perry Professor and Director of the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. LAUREN A. KAHN is Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.

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YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-05 20:05:30

YouTube has a new Labs program, allowing listeners to "discover the next generation of YouTube." In case you were wondering, that generation is apparently all about AI. The streaming site says Labs will offer a glimpse of the AI features it's developing for YouTube Music, and it starts with AI "hosts" that will chime in while you're listening to music. Yes, really. The new AI music hosts are supposed to provide a richer listening experience, according to YouTube. As you're listening to tunes, t

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Turns Out the First Supermassive Black Holes Weren’t So Supermassive, Research Suggests

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-08 08:20:40

All galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center. A new finding doesn’t contradict that observation, but it does suggest that we’ve been overestimating just how heavy some of these black holes actually are. Astrophysicists using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile found evidence that the black hole of an infant galaxy was ten times smaller than what theoretical models predicted. If they can find similar behavior in other galaxies, it would mean that we’re even more blind to the d

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Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-11 12:00:15

Waymo’s ever-expanding robotaxi aspirations have spread to the corporate world. The Alphabet-owned self-driving vehicle unit has launched “Waymo for Business,” a new service designed for companies to set up accounts so their employees can access robotaxis in cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco. Waymo announced Wednesday in a blog post it is inviting organizations to sign up for Waymo for Business. The new a service will let businesses subsidize their employees’ rides or purchas

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EU cyber agency confirms ransomware attack causing airport disruptions

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-16 08:05:55

In Brief The airport disruptions across Europe that began over the weekend were caused by a ransomware attack, according to the European Union’s cybersecurity agency ENISA on Monday. “ENISA is aware of the ongoing disruption of airports’ operations, which were caused by third-party ransomware incident. At this moment, ENISA cannot share further information regarding the cyberattack,” the agency said in an emailed statement to TechCrunch. The ransomware attack targeted Collins Aerospace, a com

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An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-17 01:00:00

The agreement will see Eni purchase electricity from Commonwealth’s first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. The facility is still in the planning stages but is scheduled to come online in the early 2030s. The news comes a few weeks after Commonwealth announced a $863 million funding round, bringing its total funding raised to date to nearly $3 billion. The fusion company also announced earlier this year that Google would be its first commercial power customer for the Virginia plant.

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Gizmodo Science Fair: A New Pill to Treat Schizophrenia—the First in 50 Years

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-17 01:00:02

Karuna Therapeutics and Bristol Myers Squibb are winners of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for their research and development of Cobenfy (xanomeline-trospium), the first truly novel medication for schizophrenia seen in 50 years. The question Can we find another way to tackle schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders and do it without the heavy side effects of modern drugs? The results Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration approved Cobenfy (a twice-daily pill) for schizophrenia. In t

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems books a $1B+ power deal for its future fusion reactor

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-17 01:00:00

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has agreed to sell Italian energy company Eni more than $1 billion worth of power from its first fusion reactor. The power plant will be built outside of Richmond, Virginia, close to some of the highest densities of data centers in the country. The 400-megawatt fusion reactor, called Arc, is expected to open in the early 2030s, CEO Bob Mumgaard said. The Eni agreement is the second such deal for Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). In June, Google said that it would b

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One UI 8.5 is getting ready to borrow a fan-favorite Pixel feature (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-16 22:27:50

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is preparing an automatic call screening feature for Galaxy phones with One UI 8.5. We discovered the code strings for the feature hidden in the leaked One UI 8.5 firmware. Samsung is also preparing a language-selection option for automatic call screening. Samsung only just rolled out One UI 8 to Galaxy phones, but a huge One UI 8.5 leak is already spilling details about what’s coming next. As expected, One UI 8.5 looks like a bigger update t

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Robotaxis as public transit? Waymo thinks so

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-21 00:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is teaming up with tech transit startup Via to integrate its autonomous vehicles into city public transit networks, starting with a growing suburb of Phoenix. In Chandler, Arizona, Waymo’s robotaxis will soon join the town’s Flex

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My Favorite iOS 26 Feature Can Block Spam Calls. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 15:00:08

Apple released iOS 26 on Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the June Worldwide Developers Conference. The update includes a Liquid Glass redesign, new ringtones and lots of hidden features for your iPhone. It also has a new call screening feature that lets you stop spam calls from bothering you. Call screening isn't an Apple Intelligence feature, so any iOS 26-compatible iPhone, like the iPhone 14 Pro, can use it. I enabled the feature early in the beta process, and my iPhon

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New Phoenix attack bypasses Rowhammer defenses in DDR5 memory

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 00:01:24

Academic researchers have devised a new variant of Rowhammer attacks that bypass the latest protection mechanisms on DDR5 memory chips from SK Hynix. A Rowhammer attack works by repeatedly accessing specific rows of memory cells at high-speed read/write operations to cause enough electrical interference to alter the value of the nearby bits from one to zero and vice-versa (bit flipping). An attacker could potentialluy corrupt data, increase their privileges on the system, execute malicious cod

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Benioff says he's 'inspired' by Palantir, but takes another jab at its prices

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-28 12:01:35

Marc Benioff is keeping an eye on Palantir . The co-founder and CEO of sales and customer service management software company Salesforce is well aware that investors are betting big on Palantir, which offers data management software to businesses and government agencies. "Oh my gosh. I am so inspired by that company," Benioff told CNBC's Morgan Brennan in a Tuesday interview at Goldman Sachs ' Communacopia+Technology conference in San Francisco. "I mean, not just because they have 100 times, y

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Our hottest takes on AI’s wild summer

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-10-29 16:02:02

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s a lot happening in the world of artificial intelligence. There is always a lot happening in the world of artificial intelligence. The money is enormous; the stakes are high; the products are, well, all over the place. Sit on your couch and rea

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Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-03 04:23:25

For millions of Spotify users, the "Wrapped" feature—which crunches the numbers on their annual listening habits—is a highlight of every year's end, ever since it debuted in 2015. NPR once broke down exactly why our brains find the feature so "irresistible," while Cosmopolitan last year declared that sharing Wrapped screenshots of top artists and songs had by now become "the ultimate status symbol" for tens of millions of music fans. It's no surprise then that, after a decade, some Spotify user

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Apple’s Best New iOS 26 Feature Has Been on Pixel Phones for Years

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-11-04 14:53:15

Ever since I was a child, I’ve despised answering the phone when an unknown number calls. Who could be on the other end? Literally anyone: an acquaintance, a telemarketer, a serial killer who’s menacingly breathing into the mouthpiece. While Apple’s upcoming Liquid Glass refresh in iOS 26 is likely to be the most immediately noticeable aspect of the software update as it starts rolling out to the public on September 15, I believe a smaller addition in iOS 26 might even have a bigger impact on h

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Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 11:34:37

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity game-changer." However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs. Is this really what will make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a tweet earlier this week? In an

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Venice’s Iconic Winged Lion Statue Has a Mysterious Origin Story

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-11 14:20:12

One of the most iconic symbols of Venice is the winged lion sculpture that perches atop a column in the Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark’s Square. It’s even depicted on the flag of the Republic of Venice. But while it is known as the Lion of Venice, the statue’s origin story appears to be far murkier than once believed. In a new paper published Thursday in the journal Antiquity, researchers lay out evidence that the bronze statue was made using copper ore from the Lower Yangzi River basin in China

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Elon Musk's New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 17:34:37

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity game-changer." However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs. Is this really what will make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a tweet earlier this week? In an

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Mark Zuckerberg encouraged execs to do MMA training with him

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-13 22:17:23

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg is so dedicated to his mixed martial arts (MMA) training that he invited his senior executives to join him for workout sessions. This amusing revelation comes from Nick Clegg’s forthcoming book. Meta’s former president of global affairs shares the story in what Fast Company unfavorably describes as a book with “thin prose,” save for some “surprising anecdotes,” such as this tale of Clegg sparring with his deputy Joel Kaplan. According to Clegg’s anecdote, Zuckerberg g

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5 Things to Know About Why Salesforce Stock is Cratering

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-11-14 04:08:57

Salesforce stock was down almost 8% this morning after a disappointing earnings report last night. The company shared third quarter revenue forecast that came in below expectations and investors worry that has to do with AI monetization problems. The company is all-in on AI, but Wall Street’s patience for the ROI countdown is running thin it seems. At least it’s running thin enough that even though second-quarter revenue came in pretty good and the company shared a $20 billion increase to its

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No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. Here's What's Really Happening

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 12:00:00

The bartender's first hoot is so clean and high-pitched it sounds piped in from the ceiling speakers — a single whooo that slices through the post-punk and clinking glassware. My friend Michael jolts on his barstool, beer sloshing dangerously close to the rim. "Did you hear that owl?" he whispers. "Not an owl," I say, matter-of-factly, wiping condensation from my glass before it drips onto the bar. The bartender, in his mid-30s with slicked-back hair and an immaculate black apron, lets out ano

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Garmin's Fenix 8 Pro Is a Watch Full of Firsts That Might Outlast the Competition

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 23:13:56

It's shaping up to be a busy season for smartwatch launches, and Garmin is making sure athletes and outdoor adventurers don't feel left out. The company's new Fenix 8 Pro is its most advanced multisport watch to date, debuting LTE and satellite connectivity alongside a micro-LED display that Garmin says is the brightest ever on a smartwatch. Pair that with the Fenix's signature 27-day battery life, and you've got a potentially life-saving tool that's built to keep up with endurance athletes and

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Netflix CPO Eunice Kim joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to talk scaling product and reimagining entertainment

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-11-16 18:15:00

The celebration of TechCrunch’s 20th anniversary is happening at Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27-29 — and we couldn’t celebrate two decades of being the north star of tech and startup news without spotlighting one of the biggest transformation stories of our time: Netflix. From a DVD-by-mail startup to a global streaming powerhouse with 300M+ subscribers, Netflix has changed how the world consumes entertainment. At Disrupt, happening at Moscone West in San Francisco, we’ll hear from the

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New York’s ‘Big Bang Machine’ Passes Critical First Test

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-17 04:15:20

sPHENIX is a next-generation particle detector that probes the mysterious, soupy form of the early universe. We know very little about the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. We have theories, most of which we’re still double- and triple-checking to see if they actually make scientific sense. The research process can seem tedious at times, but a newcomer from Long Island offers promising advances in our quest to understand how our universe came to be. In a recent paper for the Journal o

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Garmin’s Fenix 8 Pro series finally lets you leave your phone at home — sort of

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-17 09:42:49

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Garmin just announced its Fenix 8 Pro series of smartwatches, which adds both cellular and satellite connectivity via the company’s InReach tech. The Fenix 8 Pro series also adds a MicroLED display version that gets a maximum brightness of 4,500 nits. The catch is the watches will start at $1,199.99, with the MicroLED version going fo

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Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads' with AI

cnbc.com Scott Budman 2025-11-17 22:59:01

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Salesforce has cut 4,000 of its customer support roles, CEO Marc Benioff recently said while discussing how artificial intelligence has helped reduce the company headcount. Benioff revealed the layoffs during an interview published Friday on The Logan Bartlett Show podcast. "I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads," Benioff said while

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Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-19 14:20:18

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, attends the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2020. There was a moment, during the pandemic-fueled growth days of 2020, when Salesforce surpassed Oracle by market cap. Marc Benioff had finally toppled his protege, Larry Ellison. That moment is long gone. Salesforce's stock price has dropped 25% this year, the worst performance in large-cap tech and the second-steepest decline in the Dow, beating only UnitedHealth . Mea

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Latest Tech News

Is the “million-year-old” skull from China a Denisovan or something else?

China Unveils EV That Can Violently Eject Its Battery in Case of a Fire

Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race

YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

Turns Out the First Supermassive Black Holes Weren’t So Supermassive, Research Suggests

Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business

EU cyber agency confirms ransomware attack causing airport disruptions

An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Gizmodo Science Fair: A New Pill to Treat Schizophrenia—the First in 50 Years

Commonwealth Fusion Systems books a $1B+ power deal for its future fusion reactor

One UI 8.5 is getting ready to borrow a fan-favorite Pixel feature (APK teardown)

Robotaxis as public transit? Waymo thinks so

My Favorite iOS 26 Feature Can Block Spam Calls. Here's How It Works

New Phoenix attack bypasses Rowhammer defenses in DDR5 memory

Benioff says he's 'inspired' by Palantir, but takes another jab at its prices

Our hottest takes on AI’s wild summer

Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools

Apple’s Best New iOS 26 Feature Has Been on Pixel Phones for Years

Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

Venice’s Iconic Winged Lion Statue Has a Mysterious Origin Story

Elon Musk's New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad

Mark Zuckerberg encouraged execs to do MMA training with him

5 Things to Know About Why Salesforce Stock is Cratering

No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. Here's What's Really Happening

Garmin's Fenix 8 Pro Is a Watch Full of Firsts That Might Outlast the Competition

Netflix CPO Eunice Kim joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to talk scaling product and reimagining entertainment

New York’s ‘Big Bang Machine’ Passes Critical First Test

Garmin’s Fenix 8 Pro series finally lets you leave your phone at home — sort of

Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads' with AI

Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

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