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After a pandemic-era return to Los Angeles, Kiran Rai embraced the home’s history—and her own—creating a retreat shaped by memory, not minimalism ...

The threat of malicious AI swarms is no longer theoretical: Our evidence suggests these tactics are already being deployed. I believe that policymakers and technologists should increase the cost, risk ...

Baidu is experimenting along two paths. One is Baikan, which integrates a headline image and an LLM-generated answer directly into search results. The other is Ernie Bot, accessed through a central ...

Apophenia is the mind’s tendency to find meaning in randomness. It shapes creativity, emotion, and misunderstanding, ...

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Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with the limits of the power grid, and the result is a frantic search for radically ...

WPI Professor Dmitry Korkin and researchers in Senegal are using a unique type of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a ...

AI is searching particle colliders for the unexpected ...

A Cornell University team released lab mice that had previously lived in cages the size of a shoebox into a large, enclosed field. The researcher found a huge drop in the animal's anxiety levels after ...