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Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid

Electric cars could make their owners money while they sit idle Maskot Bildbyrå At least 90 per cent of the electricity generation being built today is renewable. But solar and wind farms produce electricity only when the sun is shining…

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Scientists warn of 3,100 “surging glaciers” that can trigger floods and avalanches

Most glaciers around the world are shrinking as temperatures rise. But a smaller group behaves in a very different way, and their actions can be far more dangerous. An international team of scientists led by the University of Portsmouth has…

15 years after ‘Video Games,’ Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song

The James Bond franchise has a long history of getting pop stars to record its theme songs (perhaps most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it looks like that tradition will now extend to video game adaptations about the…

OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving

I am immensely grateful to Sam, Mark, Aditya and Jakub for fostering a research environment that allowed us to pursue ideas off-the-beaten path from the company’s mainline roadmap. It’s tempting in life to mode collapse to the most important thing,…

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s science research initiative, and Bill Peebles, the researcher behind AI video tool Sora, both announced their departures on Friday. The exits come…

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Prism, is leaving the company, WIRED has confirmed. Weil was previously an early executive leading product at Instagram. “Today is my…

Why is it so hard to change your mind?

When was the last time you changed your mind? Peter Cavanagh/Alamy “The most difficult subjects,” novelist Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the…

‘Doors to Death’ reveal how Romans upgraded a stadium for bloodsport

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The ancient Roman city of Perge—in present-day southern Turkey—was one of the region’s most prominent urban centers. By the 2nd century CE, the hub…

A “lost world” beneath the North Sea was once full of forests

New research led by the University of Warwick shows that forests were already growing across Doggerland, a now-submerged landmass beneath the North Sea, far earlier than scientists once believed. The findings indicate this lost landscape may have served as a…