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As hotter summers become the norm, home aircon can feel increasingly tempting. We put six units to the test for cooling power, noise and energy use – and explain what you need to know before buying• How to sleep in a heatwave• Can air conditioning be green?Tell people you’re testing air conditioning, and the truth […]
Experts say better regulation is needed but that bad press about ‘motorized menaces’ puts the ebike revolution at riskBeware, Americans: there’s a battery-powered threat cruising down beach paths, rolling up hiking trails and zipping along the streets of our cities.By now, you’ve likely seen footage on social media of teens racing along streets, popping wheelies
Are teens on ebikes the ‘new Hells Angels’? Not so fast, boomers Read More »
It’s a nice sentiment, but all AI users should ask three questions about their preferred choice of AI platformOn Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay, The Future Is for Everyone. The essay came with something even rarer: a new Meta open-weight model. An open-weight AI model is the kind of AI with which you
Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? Read More »
More students are advocating for their own digital wellbeing and developing programs to thrive in tech-free learning environmentsAs students across the country return to school this month, many will be confronting a new reality: classrooms without smartphones.Educators and parents have long fronted the fight against the debilitating influence technology can wield. Yet, many young people
Schools across the US banned phones. Teens are demanding more offline support Read More »
The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday. In addition, May and June’s job numbers were revised downward, showing
Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a buttonThis year, the battle for song of the summer has been eclipsed by a much more complicated – some would even say disturbing –
‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music? Read More »
Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, a world-action model for robot manipulation. It was pre-trained on more than one million hours of egocentric human video. That is roughly 170 years of continuous waking experience. Robot learning has been bottlenecked by action-labelled data, which teleoperation must deliberately produce. Dyna-2 tests whether ordinary human video can substitute. The
SpaceXAI just released Grok 4.6. The release is a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5 rather than a larger base model. SpaceXAI held the foundation constant and spent the improvement on a longer supplemental training run, regenerated supervised fine-tuning trajectories, and reinforcement learning in agentic environments. Agents that stay on a task across many steps without
With great software and battery for two days, the pricey svelte folder strikes best balance between phone and tabletSamsung’s top folding phone for 2026 is its first to carry the “Ultra” moniker in its name, packing a much bigger battery and better cameras into the thin and light body of a book-style foldable.The Galaxy Z
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Prof Stephen Blundell on the plight of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Peter Forbes on bacteriophages and AIMuch of the commentary about the UK Research and Innovation science funding cuts has centred around the decision to close Jodrell Bank, with the iconic Lovell telescope rightly identified as a “source of wonder and pride” (Letters, 31
