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Sixty-two years ago, Arthur C. Clarke sat down with the BBC's Horizon program and described daily life in the year 2000: doctors performing surgery on patients thousands of miles away, people carrying devices that kept them in "instant contact with ...

Instead of walking around with a camera on your face, how about one in each ear? A team at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School has built VueBuds, a pair of wireless earbuds with a grain-of-rice camera tucked into each shell. -- Read ...

Skip the keyboard and skip the dictation: a California startup called Sabi says it will ship a wool hat that lets you type by thinking, and it wants the first ones on heads before the year is out. The company came out of stealth this week with a ...

Sterling Crispin, an artist and engineer, built a Python bot called Nothing Ever Happens that does one thing on Polymarket -- it bets against every event. New prediction market opens? The bot buys "No." Automatically, around the clock, for every ...

YouTuber Paul Lagier has built an e-reader barely larger than an adult thumb out of a 3D-printed shell, an ESP32 microcontroller, a small battery, and a Heltec Wireless Paper e-ink display. The whole build runs about $30 in parts, according to ...

Anyone on X who slaps a siren emoji and "BREAKING" on every post now faces a permanent revenue deduction. Nikita Bier, the platform's head of product, announced the change as part of a broader crackdown on users who recycle news and post clickbait ...

Helium boils at 4.2 kelvin -- colder than anything else on the periodic table. Superconducting magnets in MRI machines must be kept below 9.2 kelvin, and liquid helium is the only practical coolant to achieve this. (Liquid hydrogen boils at 20 kelvin ...

By the time most kids are old enough to understand what a privacy policy says, they've already spent years inside Gmail. Proton is now offering a different path: parents can reserve a Proton Mail address for a child and keep it sealed -- no inbox, no ...

The average human attention span shrank by roughly two-thirds between 2004 and the mid-2010s, with the steepest drop around 2012. That's from UC Irvine researcher Gloria Mark, and it anchors a New York Times op-ed by Cal Newport -- Georgetown CS ...

Men are turning to chatbots for romantic and sexual roleplay in rising numbers, and philosopher Isaac Shur thinks the reason has less to do with loneliness than with control. In a new essay for the American Philosophical Association's blog, the ...