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NASA’s X-59 takes off: The race to resurrect supersonic flight begins
At last, the X-59 is airborne. NASA’s quiet supersonic airplane took to the skies in Palmdale, California, successfully landing back a few minutes later. While this initial sortie on...
Trump says Toyota plans $10 billion U.S. investment—Toyota says, not exactly
Toyota was quick to pump the brakes on a claim President Donald Trump made this week regarding an alleged promise by the Japanese automaker to invest $10 billion in...
Here’s why you don’t need a magic GEO hack
You may remember this, if you are old enough: In 2002, search engine optimization (SEO) transformed from a technical curiosity into a full-blown industry. All of a sudden, agencies,...
Uber to launch autonomous taxi rides in San Francisco next year
Uber said Wednesday that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for its specially built autonomous taxi, which is expected to launch in late 2026. The...
Markets rise on earnings as Wall Street waits for a Fed announcement
U.S. stocks are rising toward more records on Wednesday as Wall Street waits to hear from the Federal Reserve in the afternoon about what it will do with interest rates. The S&P 500...
AI videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media as users confront natural disaster news in the Sora era
As Hurricane Melissa battered the Caribbean this week, social media became awash with AI-generated content that blurs the line between reality and fiction. Described by CBS News as “one...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia goes live in a bid to compete with crowdsourced Wikipedia
Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia.Writing on social media, Musk said that Grokipedia.com is “now...
Devastating Hurricane Melissa is sweeping through the Caribbean. Here’s how to help
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a devastating Category 5 storm, tied for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history.While the extent of the destruction is...
As Nvidia’s market cap hits $5 trillion, these other tech giants are nearing trillion-dollar milestones of their own
Today, Nvidia Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) became the first company to cross the $5 trillion valuation—in premarket trading, at least. It marks a major milestone in stock market history and...
The 26 words that could kill OpenAI’s Sora
Imagine a Yelp-style user-review site that lets users generate and post AI video reviews of local businesses. Say one of these videos presents a business in a bad light,...
