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The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

What to watch out for There are several things to keep in mind when watching the surge of robot demonstration videos and even livestreams....

AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data

During oral arguments, justices expressed skepticism of AT&T and Verizon’s claims and seemed to agree that FCC fine decisions are nonbinding until enforced by...

Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says

Screwworm comeback Screwworms were once endemic to the US, but were eradicated in the 1960s amid a concerted effort to annihilate their population. This...

Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress

That doesn’t mean the error-corrected qubit was fully stable. Eventually, one of the errors that inevitably occurred couldn’t be recovered from because too many...

Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items

When the team returned to the sites, they determined which decorations had been selected from the slush pile and moved to a bower, and...

Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers

Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft’s opening keynote...

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

“Even though I was super cautious on the first day, trying it out with a limited number of uses, it still consumed 840 credits,”...

Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights

They also conducted experiments that tracked people’s eye movements and recorded their brain activity as they viewed sets of images—both in the lab and...

On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986’s SpaceCamp

And into that post-Challenger disillusioned summer of 1986, Hollywood brought us SpaceCamp. It had all the right ingredients: A stacked cast with a solid...

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