AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can now identify locations from photos with high accuracy, raising new privacy concerns for people who share images online. According to a Popular Science …
The Ojai Raptor Center, which is treating internet-famous bald eagle Jackie for anemia, is urging the public to stop sharing fake AI-generated photos and misinformation about her condition, saying suc…
Deezer has launched a free AI song detector that scans playlists across 20 platforms for fully AI-generated music, claiming a 99.8% success rate. The tool, which requires no Deezer account, found that…
Sperm whales off the coast of Dominica shorten their click sequences and increase use of certain vowel-like sounds when ships are nearby, according to a study published today in Ecological Informatics…
A Popular Science test of five AI writing detectors found that Pangram, Grammarly, GPTZero, and Scribbr correctly identified all human-written and AI-generated samples, while a fifth tool was not full…
Designer Eric Lu's Ghost Font uses an optical illusion to hide text from AI by overlaying words within moving dots in a video, exploiting the fact that multimodal AI examines videos frame by frame whi…
Neurologists at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York reported in a study published today in Nature Medicine that a man with quadriplegia, Keith Thomas, can now feed himself and dr…
Apple's new Siri AI app, launching in public beta on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, brings generative AI capabilities to iPhones, iPads, and Macs, with improved answers, contextual aware…
Sony released the RX10 V bridge camera, reviving its all-in-one series with a 24-600mm ZEISS zoom lens and AI-powered autofocus for $2,299.99, shipping in August. The camera features a 20.1-megapixel …
In a world first, surgeons at UC San Diego successfully performed gallbladder removals in large mammals using remotely controlled humanoid robots called Surgie. The proof-of-concept trial, published i…
Apple announced iOS 27 at WWDC 2026, introducing a major Siri AI upgrade with Google integration, Liquid Glass transparency controls, improved child safety tools, separate alarm volumes, AirPods equal…
Researchers at Michigan State University found that AI programs designed to detect alien biosignatures can be fooled 100% of the time by small changes in data, highlighting a serious vulnerability tha…
Researchers at Japan's University of Electro-Communications created an edible gummy robot that can talk and cry, finding that participants perceived it as having a mind but were not significantly relu…
The Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the University of Padua used AI to create a cinematic video reconstructing the final moments of a Pompeii victim who died in the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption. T…
Road trips offer mental health benefits by serving as a digital detox, activating feel-good hormones like oxytocin and dopamine, and creating new neural pathways through novel experiences, according t…
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed injectable nanorobots infused with stem cells that successfully repaired severed spinal cords in mice, with nerve cells reconnecting within 28 days and the ani…
MIT biotechnology PhD student Lauren "Ren" Ramlan programmed the video game *Doom* to run on a display made from *E. coli* bacterial cells. The setup takes approximately 70 minutes to illuminate a sin…