A major international report on the safety of artificial intelligence says experts can’t agree on the risk the technology poses — and it’s unclear whether AI will help or harm us. A major international report on the safety of artificial intelligence says experts can’t agree on the risk the technology poses — and it’s unclear…
A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential…
Albert Einstein was right: There is an area at the edge of black holes where matter can no longer stay in orbit and instead falls in, as predicted by his theory of gravity. Albert Einstein was right: There is an area at the edge of black holes where matter can no longer stay in orbit…
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin launched its first crew of people from a site in Texas to the edge of space on Sunday since its suborbital New Shepard rocket was grounded in 2022, resuming its centrepiece space tourism business. Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin launched its first crew of people from a site…
A Canadian tech company is helping kids with mobility issues put their best foot forward with the help of a pair of revolutionary robotic legs. A Canadian tech company is helping kids with mobility issues put their best foot forward with the help of a pair of revolutionary robotic legs.
Radio/As It Happens CBC | Technology News Farmers across Canada and in some parts of the U.S. experienced GPS blackouts and malfunctions on their equipment during the weekend. With more solar storms on the horizon and an increasing reliance on GPS across different industries, experts say the problem isn’t going away any time soon. Farmers across…
The countdown to the end of the school year has begun: Teachers and students can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.Parents, meanwhile, are gathering their bearings for the long road ahead. They are stockpiling snacks, fireworks and alcoholic beverages — not necessarily in that order. Here, the funny parents of X (formerly…
Strictly hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess DalyWith the summer only just starting to peek its head around the corner, it doesn’t feel quite right to alright be looking ahead to autumn telly.But, despite the new series of Strictly Come Dancing still being a good few months away, that hasn’t stopped rumours about which celebrities will…
The author at 23. “This is before I took fen-phen or meth,” she says.Ever since I was a little girl, I never felt enough. Not pretty enough. Not smart enough. Not thin enough. When I was 24, I began taking a diet drug combination called fen-phen. It not only suppressed my appetite, but it gave me…
We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how the terms “uppercase” and “lowercase” actually come from the printing press.And now it seems the deceptively modern-sounding “dashboard” has a far older original meaning too. In a 2021 X (formerly Twitter) post that recently resurfaced on my feed, company founder and X user Arnaud Porterie shared via Wikipedia that…