August 23, 2024 NASA will soon announce whether Starliner’s astronauts are coming back on a SpaceX vehicle On August 24, NASA will finally announce how Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronauts that flew to the ISS aboard Boeing’s Starliner, will…
August 23, 2024 Google DeepMind workers protest over US military and defense contracts Nearly 200 workers at Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research division, have signed a letter urging the company to terminate its contracts with military…
August 23, 2024 People Who Are More Flexible Tend to Live Longer, Study Finds Higher flexibility correlated with a lower risk of dying early in middle-aged people.
August 23, 2024 ‘I Don’t Want to Use It, I Want to Be It’: This Artist Is on a Quest to Become One With AI For the last year, artist Avital Meshi has tested how closely she can integrate with OpenAI’s technology, becoming its body and its voice.
August 23, 2024 Nearly .05% of Your Brain Is Likely Microplastic, Brain Samples Reveal The tiny, omnipresent pieces of plastic are linked to a wide array of health problems in humans and animals.
August 23, 2024 Engadget Podcast: Pixel 9 reviews and Gamescom 2024 This week, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into Engadget’s reviews on Google’s Pixel 9 and 9 Pro phones. Are they really a step up from…
August 23, 2024 The Morning After: Is Google’s Pixel 9 worth buying? There’s a lot of power in the notion of the default: The obvious, sensible choice you won’t get picked on for making. Until now,…
August 23, 2024 Hate those five-minute battles to remove your graphics card? Painful GPU extraction woes could be a thing of the past with new motherboards Motherboard makers are seemingly upping the pace with the transition to new designs for PCIe graphics card slots, whereby the traditional latch is being…
August 23, 2024 Ultra-Thin, Flexible Solar Cells Could Soon Coat and Power Your Stuff Developed at Oxford, the cells are just 1 micron thick, but they match conventional materials in efficiency.
August 23, 2024 Uber to Launch Robotaxi Service With GM’s Cruise in 2025 The big questions left: Which cities and how much?