Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, arguably, most successful AI coding…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on Thursday night during a hotfire test on the launch pad, lighting up the skies around the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In a post on X, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said…
The double helix structure of DNA, the genetic code that makes up genes Shutterstock/Juan Gaertner Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. If superior creatures from space ever…
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created tiny lab-grown brain and spinal cord systems that mimic how movement signals travel through the human nervous system. Using this model, the team discovered that nerve damage once believed to be permanent…
Chrome Holding Co., the company formerly known as 23andMe, is facing a lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta over a massive security breach in 2023 that compromised millions of people’s sensitive data. Bonta is accusing the company of misleading customers…
Much like WarioWare, Pictonico (which, I admit, I’m not entirely sure how to pronounce) is a collection of microgames that last just a few seconds each. In each round, you play 10 of these in quick succession, and usually you…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket just exploded during testing at a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to live streams from NASASpaceFlight.com and SpaceFlight Now. Blue Origin later confirmed the explosion. Jeff Bezos’ space company was performing a static…
On Tuesday, with Donald Trump’s endorsement and the backing of the MAGA faithful, scandal-ridden Texas attorney general Ken Paxton defeated incumbent US senator John Cornyn in a runoff primary to claim the Republican nomination for that seat. He then quickly…
Hum is set in an over-heated near-future metropolis Ingram Publishing / Alamy Hum by Helen Phillips, the story of a mother’s struggle to protect and nurture her small family in a broiling, near-future metropolis, has won this year’s Climate Fiction…
FORT BRAGG, Calif. — A moderate earthquake shook a remote area of Northern California on Wednesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries. The epicenter of the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, was…
Cross-sport comps are a dangerous game. Saying Chris Paul is the Dan Marino of Ken Griffey Jrs. is all well and good until someone uncorks the hyper-obvious “Travis Hunter is the NFL’s Shohei Ohtani” and then we all lose our…
I’ve been a professional deal hunter for 13 years, and gift card deals are always enticing to me. But there’s a catch: These deals are only worthwhile if you were planning on spending the money anyway. It’s easy to find…
