Category: 3. Tech

If you use Apple devices regularly, then your Apple account has lots of…

The best streaming services have vast libraries of content, and that’s where…

Is it possible to upload the consciousness of your mind into a computer? – Amreen, age 15, New Delhi, India

The concept, cool yet maybe a little creepy, is known as mind uploading. Think of it as a way to create a copy of your brain, a…

Concrete is an excellent and versatile material, but it’s not without its limitations. One of the biggest problems materials scientists are keen to find a workaround for is its brittleness. Concrete doesn’t have very high tensile strength at…

A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era…

In 1917, two US submarines collided off the coast of San Diego and submarine…

Silicon’s mid-life crisis

AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most recent chapter, which took AI mainstream, hinges on two phases—training and inference—that are data and energy-intensive in terms of…

It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms. Previous research has tended to focus on how chatbots agree with users even when what the human has told the AI is demonstrably wrong—for example, they…