Scientists decipher new secrets from ancient scrolls scorched by Vesuvius eruption: "Finally able to read them"

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

How to play Steam VR games on an Apple Vision Pro using ALVR

ALVR is one of the tools to stream VR games from a Windows PC to their Apple Vision Pro over Wi-Fi. Here's how to get the ...
Allure

If You’re Using the UV Index to Tan, You’re Using It Very Wrong

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are apps dedicated to tanning. There truly is an app for everything. Why wouldn’t there be one to tell you when to go outside, soak up the sun, turn over, ...
The New York Times

Book Review: ‘Project Maven,’ by Katrina Manson

U.S.-Iran Negotiation Issues Israel-Lebanon Agreement Strait of Hormuz Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence ...
SlashGear

3 Handy Ways To Use A UV Flashlight Around The Home And Garage

What if we could turn off the lights, flip on a flashlight, and watch the world transform in a dim purple glow? If you're a fan of forensic crime dramas, or you've used ultraviolet tools at work to ...
The New York Times

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere. By Maxine Joselow and Brad Plumer Maxine Joselow reported from Washington and Brad ...
slashfilm

How Project Hail Mary Adapts The Book's Most Challenging Sci-Fi Concept

Spoilers ahead for the book and movie versions of "Project Hail Mary." One of the things I really enjoy about "Project Hail Mary" is the way the story is built on the premise of a time crunch, even ...
CNBC

OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Astral in boost for Codex team

OpenAI said it will acquire Astral, a startup that builds tools for software developers. Astral's team will join OpenAI as part of the group running its AI coding assistant, Codex. OpenAI has been ...
Wired

Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans

An ongoing and heated dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is raising new questions about how the startup’s technology is actually used inside the US military. In late February, Anthropic ...
IGN

Linked up.

Google has begun selling access to Project Genie, an interactive world creation tool that lets you generate playable environments from a prompt — including those featuring Nintendo characters. The ...
Engadget

Google's Project Genie lets you create your own 3D interactive worlds

This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It's what's known as a world world, an AI system capable of generating images and reacting as the user moves through the environment the software is ...