19 Oct The Physics Trick That Makes These New Super Cars So Insanely Fast Zero to 60 in 1.4 seconds? By lowering air pressure under the car, automakers can dial the acceleration way up.
19 Oct Social Media Swallowed Gen Z. This Film Shows Exactly How Lauren Greenfield, director of the docuseries Social Studies, says we have to have empathy for teens growing up online. “It’s not fair to ask them to self-regulate when the apps have been designed to be addictive.”
18 Oct The 23 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (October 2024) Wolfs, Fancy Dance, and The Last of the Sea Women are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Apple TV+ this month.
18 Oct Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”
18 Oct How a 12-Ounce Layer of Foam Changed the NFL Even the makers of the Guardian Cap admit it looks silly. But for a sport facing an existential brain-injury crisis, once unthinkable solutions have now become almost normal.
17 Oct Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals The US has accused two brothers of being part of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, which allegedly went on a wild cyberattack spree that hit hundreds of targets—and, for one of the two men, even put lives at risk.
17 Oct Best iPad to Buy (and Some to Avoid) in 2024 New iPads are here. We break down Apple’s current lineup to help you figure out which one of Apple’s tablets is best for you.
17 Oct Here’s Just How Massive Elon Musk’s $75 Million Trump Donation Is Elon Musk isn’t the only Silicon Valley billionaire to line up behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. See how his donations, which total $75 million, make everyone else look tiny in comparison.
16 Oct Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
16 Oct Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be The new frontier in large language models is the ability to “reason” their way through problems. New research from Apple says it’s not quite what it’s cracked up to be.