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Eye Implant That Restores Vision to the Blind Cleared for Sale
6+ hour, 56+ min ago (434+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 2:01 PM EDT An eye implant that can help blind people see again is poised to hit the market — in Europe, at least. On Wednesday, the US-based Science Corporation announced that it had received approval from the European Union…...
MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras
7+ hour, 56+ min ago (366+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 1:01 PM EDT What happens when you deploy hundreds of high-tech surveillance cameras against a student population known for their hacking skills? We’re about to find out. This week, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s student newspaper the Tech reported…...
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
8+ hour, 55+ min ago (470+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 12:02 PM EDT Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be…...
Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads
9+ hour, 56+ min ago (412+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 11:01 AM EDT AI is upending the way voters take part in the democratic process. The worst part? You might not even know you’ve been affected. In the county of St. Charles, Missouri, a race for county executive has…...
Warning: Your Friends and Colleagues Are Now Recording Every Conversation
10+ hour, 55+ min ago (436+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 10:02 AM EDT It’s become strangely difficult to attend a work meeting without the presence of an AI recording tool that’s carefully jotting down what every single participant is saying. Some people in tech circles are taking the trend…...
Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for "Tired" Parents
11+ hour, 55+ min ago (242+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 9:02 AM EDT Meta is testing an app that uses AI to automate bedtime stories for children. The future is here, folks — and boy, is it depressing. The resulting story can be read aloud by a human — or, of…...
Incredible Video Shows Chinese Rocket Get Hit by Lightning Mid-Launch
12+ hour, 56+ min ago (265+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 8:01 AM EDT A Chinese rocket was smitten by a bolt from the heavens right after it lifted off. And if this was a blessing or a curse from a higher power, we don’t know. The spacecraft, a Long…...
New Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
13+ hour, 55+ min ago (437+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 7:02 AM EDT By now, it should be pretty clear that the corporate executives of the world aren’t exactly into AI because they think it’ll cure cancer. They’re making a different calculation, motivated by simple economics: pretty soon, they…...
Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible
14+ hour, 56+ min ago (323+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 6:01 AM EDT Who could’ve guessed that students who use AI to cheat on their assignments are incredibly lazy? Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, says that he used white font to hide a…...
Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (371+ words) Published Jul 24, 2026 4:33 PM EDT For years, the conventional wisdom for ambitious students and languishing jobseekers alike was “learn to code.” Do that, the ubiquitous advice went, and you’d be able to find yourself a six-figure job anywhere. But in an…...