In Japanese mythology, dragons aren’t the fire-breathing, treasure-hoarding monsters you’ll find in Tolkien, Martin, et al. Instead, they’re wise, serpentine creatures who control rain, fly through the clouds, and protect sacred areas. Engineers at the University of Tokyo JSK Robotics Laboratory had been working on a drone that represents the latter called the “Dual-Rotor embedded…
The judge overseeing the landmark antitrust case against Google pressed Justice Department lawyers on whether potential search engine rivals will have room to grow amid the rise of artificial intelligence – a critical question as he considers the government’s push to break up its illegal monopoly. US District Judge Amit Mehta — who labeled Google…
All modern Windows PCs come with Microsoft Defender built in. For the unaware, this tool is Windows’ native antivirus. Over time, it has matured into a reliable security tool capable of blocking a wide range of threats. However, a tool called Defendnot can shut down Microsoft Defender completely, without exploiting a bug or using malware….
Opera’s browser roster is expanding once more, and this time, AI is at the centre of its world. Opera Neon is a fully agentic AI browser that can surf the web and code games for you—or at least, cut down on the admin of life and leave you more time for the actual fun stuff…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Amidst the flurry of AI announcements and product reveals from Google in recent months, you might have missed one of the most useful AI-powered apps in the whole collection: NotebookLM (that LM stands for Language Model). Perhaps NotebookLM has gone largely…
For nearly 10 years I have written about science and technology and I’ve been an early adopter of new tech for much longer. As a teenager in the mid-1990s I annoyed the hell out of my family by jamming up the phone line for hours with a dial-up modem; connecting to bulletin board communities all…
Oh, HAL no! An artificial intelligence model threatened to blackmail its creators and showed an ability to act deceptively when it believed it was going to be replaced — prompting the company to deploy a safety feature created to avoid “catastrophic misuse.” Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 model attempted to blackmail its developers at a shocking…
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed executive orders Friday intended to quadruple domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, a goal experts say the United States is highly unlikely to reach. To speed up the development of nuclear power, the orders grant the U.S. Energy secretary authority to approve advanced reactor designs and projects, taking…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is under fire after a major report revealed that thousands of fraudulent ads have been allowed to run on its platforms. According to the Wall Street Journal, Meta accounted for nearly half of all scam complaints tied to Zelle transactions at JPMorgan Chase between mid-2023 and mid-2024. …
Google’s AI-powered note-taking tool is getting a new feature that will make it more useful than ever. Alongside its existing Audio Overviews, which turn your notes into a podcast with AI hosts, Video Overviews will turn your notes into video explainers. NotebookLM Creates Video Overviews At Google I/O 2025, Google announced that NotebookLM is now…
