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Sometimes, deciding whether to go to the restroom or stay seated in a theater is no easy choice. I've probably come close to injuring my bladder because I didn't want ...

This nostalgia-inducing collection of photos shows payphones that still exist in the United States. While hard to come by nowadays, there are still some beautiful payphone booths scattered around America.

Sam Nelson was 19, a UC Merced student who discovered ChatGPT as a senior in high school and started using it to troubleshoot problems and do homework. By the time ...

The inventor behind the world-famous Roomba is now working on something far more personal and strange: robots designed to emotionally connect with their owners. You can watch it in action ...

Kevin Kelly's new essay, "The Emergent Self Loop," is about his recent ten-hour conversation with Anthropic's Claude. It's the most interesting thing I've read about AI selfhood in a while.

As per California's e-bike law, anything faster than pedal-assist Class 3 bikes (which are capped at 28 mph) is legally a moped or motorcycle and requires a license, registration, insurance,

Daily active users across Meta's properties slipped from 3.58 billion to 3.56 billion last quarter, the first decline the company has ever reported. Julia Angwin, writing in a New York ...

Press the back of your hand against the sidewalk for seven seconds. If you can't stand it, your dog can't either. That's the old vet's rule for hot pavement, and ...

Richard Dawkins, the 84-year-old evolutionary biologist who spent decades insisting people stop believing in things without evidence, has decided that Anthropic's Claude chatbot is conscious. He gave it a new ...

A security researcher who decompiled the White House's new mobile app says it contains hidden GPS-tracking capabilities, weak security protections, and code loaded from an outside GitHub page, raising serious ...