This Copyright Lawsuit Could Shape the Future of Generative AI
Algorithms that create art, text, and code are spreading fast—but legal challenges could throw a wrench in the works. Wired
Algorithms that create art, text, and code are spreading fast—but legal challenges could throw a wrench in the works. Wired
From the Danube to the Loire, these lifelines for the continent’s economy are running low after five months of brutal drought and years of dry weather. Wired
Amid worries over rampant inflation and whether the U.S. may be slipping into a recession, some economists see one simple fix that could lift the economy: immigration. “The economy would benefit enormously from more immigration,” says Mark Zandi, Moody’s chief economist. “It would alleviate labor shortages and cool inflation and interest rates.” Economic research by […]
A team of American scientists has developed a system for generating electricity that they say is a “game changer.” It’s a device that has the potential to radically increase the electrical output of any thermal power plant, be it fossil fuel, solar thermal, or nuclear. And while the system is still in the research phase, […]
The former president tried to connect the raid to the Watergate burglars. His privacy problems do relate to Nixon’s scandal—but not in the way he thinks. Wired
Meta has allowed ads that include hate speech and calls for violence ahead of the country’s elections. But experts warn that a shutdown isn’t the answer. Wired
Four decades of international cooperation in space now look primed to become yet another casualty of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The newly-appointed head of Russia’s space agency said on Tuesday that after 2024, the country would leave the International Space Station that it helped build and jointly operates with the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada. […]
Steve Bannon, who is considered to be the brains behind Donald Trump’s ethno-populist rise to power in 2016, has now been convicted on two charges of contempt of Congress. The podcaster and one-time Breitbart News honcho had refused to appear before, or provide documents to, the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the […]
The National Grid is testing computer-manned drones that can save millions in maintenance work. Wired
About 65 million years ago, right around the time dinosaurs went extinct, bats evolved the ability to echolocate. They would produce clicks with their mouth or nose and listen for echoes of those clicks bouncing off surfaces and animals in the dark. Bats were major predators of moths, so many moths evolved ears that are […]