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The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition ...

During a cabinet meeting at the White House earlier this month, Donald Trump made the bald-faced lie that he "aced" a cognitive test that, according to him, 99% of people will fail. "I'm a smart ...

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Time magazine is spotlighting key players in the artificial intelligence revolution for its 2025 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Thursday. "The architects of AI" are the latest recipients ...

A 3-year-old boy from California is faring well, nine months after becoming the first person to receive a new gene therapy for a rare, life-shortening genetic disorder called Hunter syndrome. Oliver ...

AI is a difficult subject to write about for many reasons, all centered around the world historic hurricane of bullshit that it brings with it. AI companies are the biggest hype merchants our depraved ...

In 18th century Vienna, the Hungarian engineer and debutant Wolfgang von Kempelen shocked court patrons with a bizarre contraption: a great mechanical box which could seemingly play and even win chess ...

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise. Owen Collumb, a Cybathlon race pilot who has been ...

The transgender person caught up in a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row had been convicted of assaulting their now-ex-wife while living in Ohio as a man — before taking the victim’s first name as ...

Some people taking popular new diabetes and weight-loss drugs including Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and Mounjaro have reported reduced cravings for substances besides food. The medications seem to ...