Aston Martin’s Valkyrie is going racing, but only after a power cut
Enlarge / When Aston Martin first announced the Valkyrie it planned to take it to Le Mans. That plan got put on hold for a while, but now it’s happening…
Emergency alert test to hit all cell phones, TVs, and radios at 2:20 pm ET today
Enlarge / Message sent during a test of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System on Oct. 3, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Nationwide tests of the US Emergency Alert…
Former Ubisoft executives reportedly arrested over sexual harassment allegations
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Ubisoft / Aurich Lawson) Five former Ubisoft executives have reportedly been detained for questioning by French authorities, years after they departed from the company amid…
Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate Mickey Mouse holding a machine gun
Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated stickers created in Facebook Messenger and shared on social media site X. (credit: Meta) Less than a week after Meta unveiled AI-generated stickers in…
AI can now create new and powerful designer proteins in just minutes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Proteins power life, they are the secret ingredient to many of our most famous healthcare treatments, and now new ones can be designed in minutes.…
OpenAI’s Red Team reveal how they broke ChatGPT and GPT4 pre-release
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI can be hacked, fooled, broken, and scammed into behaving badly and that’s a big problem that companies are trying to find out more about.…
Detective Pikachu Returns is a super effective story let down by dated visuals
An exasperated-looking Pikachu wearing a detective’s hat and standing with his paws on his hips. The pikachu is standing in a park, and behind him you can see overturned apple…
Russia talks a big future in space while its overall budget is quietly cut
Enlarge / Russia outlined a plan for future spaceflight activities this week. (credit: IAC/Roscosmos) The leader of Russia’s space corporation, Yuri Borisov, discussed his country’s future ambitions in space on…
Wii U, 3DS online servers to shut down in six months
Enlarge / We’d like to imagine there’s an actual Switch like this that Nintendo will be flipping in April. (credit: Flickr / Andrew Huff) The end is nigh for online…
Android 14 officially releases for Pixel phones
Google’s generative AI wallpaper maker. I get why the spaceship image is foggy and grainy, but why does the prompt of a house with flowers look like a washed out…