A four-month-old Chinese startup just launched a $118 AI collar that claims to translate dog and cat vocalizations into human sentences with 95% accuracy — an extraordinary consumer device that has secured $1 million in funding despite zero independent scientific proof that it actually works

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NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s.

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The computer that landed Apollo 11 stored its code in "rope memory" that was physically woven by hand by a workforce of women in a Massachusetts factory, a wire through a magnetic ring meaning one and around it meaning zero, so the program that carried humans to the Moon was literally knitted into being.

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The U.S. Army has officially pushed "jailbroken" software updates to active weapon systems in the Middle East — a frantic, 30-day tactical sprint designed to strip away manufacturer code restrictions so legacy anti-drone cameras and missile radars can finally talk to each other

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Five years ago, a group of researchers walked out of OpenAI over safety concerns to build a quiet rival named Claude — and after a historic $65 billion funding round that valued the company at $965 billion, those ex-employees have officially leapfrogged their former bosses to create the most valuable AI startup on Earth

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Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos AI is so good at finding software vulnerabilities that the company has restricted its release, and treasury officials, central ban...

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OpenAI has launched a massive $4 billion corporate engineering initiative called “DeployCo” to embed elite developers directly into global banks and enterprises...

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Stanford scientists just built a room-temperature quantum device that uses “twisted light” to connect electrons and photons — an long-sought breakthrough that c...

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A breakthrough in solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries has quietly achieved double the energy density of standard EV batteries — a quiet laboratory victory that...

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In 1985, registering a .com domain cost nothing, required a technical request rather than a shopping cart, and produced only six names in twelve months, before the millionth .com arrived in 1997 and the 100 million mark in 2012

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In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 carrying a map that uses 14 pulsars to pinpoint Earth’s exact position in the Milky Way—a cosmic roadmap designed for curious a...

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Adults who find it physically painful to ask for help, even when they are completely overwhelmed, usually aren’t proud — they are people who realized at an earl...

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In 1962, a single missing character in NASA’s guidance software doomed Mariner 1 just minutes after launch — a transcription error so costly that Arthur C. Clar...

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In 1985, a 14-year-old in Britain could legally drive a Sinclair C5 down a dual carriageway at 15 miles per hour with lorries thundering past at chest height, b...

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In 1962, the US detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb 250 miles above the Pacific in a test called Starfish Prime, and the electromagnetic pulse knocked out streetlights, burglar alarms, and a telephone company microwave link in Honolulu nearly 900 miles away, on an island most engineers had assumed was safely out of range

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Research says people who never post on social media aren't antisocial, secretive, or behind the times — they have noticed that performing their life cost them the ability to live in it

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Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn't fully reverse

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The Voyager Golden Record has a small sample of uranium electroplated onto its cover, put there so that whoever finds it can measure how far the metal has decayed and work out how long the record has been drifting, a built-in clock for a message engineered to last around a billion years.

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Cognitive scientists have a name for the moment you finish a page and realize you took in none of it, and a Harvard study that caught people's thoughts at random found the mind wanders off from whatever the body is doing for almost half of waking life.

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MIT researchers wired EEG sensors onto 54 people writing essays and found that the group using ChatGPT not only thought the least, measured by brain connectivity, but afterwards mostly could not recall a single line of what they had supposedly written.

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