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RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

It’s said celebrity deaths come in threes. We lost Sam Neill last month, and the legendary Dolly Parton yesterday. Now we find out that...

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

In these scenarios, Meta would give some employees new roles and lay off others. One HR executive reportedly said that Meta would have reduced...

The world’s busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now

Tuesday’s launch was noteworthy for a couple of other reasons. First, it marked the 37th flight for SpaceX’s fleet-leading Falcon 9 first stage booster,...

World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames

Limits of robot autonomy The fact that many events still permitted humans to directly control robotic motions shows that autonomous robot systems still have...

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

For 22-25 year olds, jobs where “automative” users of AI are especially prevalent show heavily declining entry...

Data centers become “killer application” for new power transformer tech

“It’s kind of this one magic box that eliminates a lot of the infrastructure and also provides one control location that eliminates a lot...

Due to need for ‘absolute success,’ China delays critical Moon launch to 2027

China’s “Manned Space” program issued a terse announcement on Sunday regarding its much-anticipated Chang’e 7 lunar exploration mission. The agency stated: “In keeping with...

Volcanoes that made history

It turns out that polar ice cores do contain large amounts of sulfur dating to 536, a distinct signal of a major eruption. But...

Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

The most important thing about QIH, though, is that it can be switched on and off at will. In Tanaka’s experiments the mice spent...

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