With the evening moon appearing as a crescent phase for much of this upcoming week, we now have an opportunity to view some of the fainter sky objects that now occupy our spring evening sky. Looking high overhead and toward the south just after nightfall, there is a broad star pattern formed by four stars. The near-third magnitude star, Cor Caroli (in the constellation of Canes Venatici the…
The most mysterious and yet ubiquitous stuff in the cosmos, dark matter is effectively invisible. This is simply because it doesn’t interact with light. But what if instead of trying to see dark matter, scientists attempted to hear it instead?
New research suggests dark…
“What’s that bright light in the sky?” a friend messaged me the other evening. “Venus,” I replied, without thinking about it. There was a pause, then: “How can you tell? And why is it suddenly so bright?”
People always notice Venus by accident. When it’s low…
On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S., letting them connect their accounts and ask questions ranging from spending analysis to future financial planning.
OpenAI has partnered with the financial connection service Plaid to manage the account connections. Users can connect to over 12,000 financial institutions, including…
AI video-generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford founders, no ex-Google founders, no nine-figure seed round that bought them time to ignore revenue. Its three founders – two from Chile, one from Greece – met at NYU’s…
As AI models increasingly become commoditized, startups are racing to build the software layer that sits on top of them. One interesting entrant into this space is Osaurus, an open source, Apple-only LLM server that lets users move between different local AI models, either…
Steven Meisel is, without question, one of the most influential fashion photographers walking this Earth today. He once shot 28 Vogue covers in a single year. He discovered Stella Tennant. He shaped the visual language of Italian Vogue for decades.
And yet, the American almost never exhibits, never posts on social media, rarely gives interviews and has published very little. He is, paradoxically…
Dua Lipa has made headlines this week for filing suit against Samsung for allegedly using her copyrighted image for commercial purposes without permission. And this isn’t just a small claim, either.
The Albanian-born British singer is seeking an eye-watering $15 million…
Canon has announced the rollout of its new Authenticity Imaging System, a C2PA-compliant solution designed to help news organizations verify the provenance and history of images from the moment they are captured.
Launching in May 2026 across Europe, the Middle East and…
The first electric GTI is finally here. Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Polo GTI, a sporty 222-horsepower EV hot hatch that will start at around $45,000.
Volkswagen ID. Polo GTI debuts as first electric hot hatch
50 years after launching the first Golf GTI in 1976, Volkswagen is taking the iconic badge into a new era with the ID. Polo GTI.
The ID. Polo is “100% electric and 100% GTI,” Volkswagen…
