California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed a hotly debated artificial intelligence (AI) safety bill. Tech firms opposed this bill, fearing it might cause AI companies to leave California and slow down innovation. Newsom wants to create guidelines for Generative AI – which can generate text, ph
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly didn't hold back in interviews this week. He told The New York Times that previous President Donald Trump fits the definition of a fascist. "He admires dictators and prefers an authoritarian approach, " Kelly said. Kelly also discussed Trump's admiration
IBM's stock took a dip in after-hours trading on Wednesday, slipping around 3%. The reason? The tech giant didn't quite meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly revenue. Let's dive into the details. IBM reported earnings per share of $2. 30, just a touch higher than the $2. 23 analysts had pre
In a significant turn of events, the Georgia Supreme Court has denied the Republican National Committee's (RNC) request to reinstate controversial election rules for the upcoming election on November 5. These rules, which included changes to ballot counting and poll watcher access, were deemed illeg
Did you know that a single image can reveal secrets about diseases like Alzheimer's and ALS? That's exactly what happened at Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest. The winner was an image of brain tumor cells from a mouse, snapped by Bruno Cisterna and Eric Vitriol from Augusta University in Georgia
Ever thought about editing images in a whole new way? Ideogram just launched something cool – a canvas editor that lets you paint, stack, or generate images right on a digital canvas. This isn't your typical editing tool. You can layer your changes on top of the original image, making it super easy
You might think humans fell in love with carbs when we started farming, but scientists say that's not true. They found a gene called AMY1 that helps us digest starches, and it's been around for a really long time – even before we had agriculture. This gene started duplicating around 800, 000 years a
Imagine diving a mile and a half under the ocean's surface. You'll find a world as strange as any other planet—volcanic ridges and hot springs, known as hydrothermal vents, that spew warm chemicals. These vents attract all sorts of animals, like tube worms, that have special bacteria to help them su
A big secret about former President Donald Trump's election fraud claims came out last week. A judge in Washington, D. C. , made public almost 2, 000 pages of evidence from the case. This evidence shows that back in 2020, William Barr, who was Trump's lawyer at the time, told Trump his ideas about v
You might think our love for carbs like bread, pasta, and rice is a modern thing. But get this – humans may have been chowing down on starchy foods way longer than we thought. Scientists found a gene that helps us digest carbs more easily. And guess what? This gene seems to have duplicated itself a
