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 matter could leave a tiny but discernible imprint in the cacophony of ripples in spacetime called “gravitational waves”…
“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…
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 Tisch School of the Arts and built the company in New York.
Runway also could be, depending on who you ask, one of the most…
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…
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 (around £11 million / AU$21 million), as Samsung plastered this image all over the packaging of its televisions.
Lipa’s…
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…
Tesla has quietly unredacted all 17 of its autonomous driving crash narratives filed with NHTSA, revealing for the first time what actually happened in each incident. The automaker had been the only ADS operator to fully redact its crash reports, marking every single narrative as “confidential business information.”
The data shows what we always suspected: most of Tesla’s crashes were not…
