Why Congo’s Ebola outbreak is far more alarming than hantavirus
For weeks, the media has been fixated on whether a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, which killed three people,...
A 16th-Century Sketch Claims to Depict Anne Boleyn. A.I. Says It’s Her Mom.
What’s in a face? Quite a bit, when you ask a computer. Computational facial recognition — which captures hundreds of...
How Boots Riley Made a ‘Feel-Good’ Movie About Capitalist Exploitation
Boots Riley at the SXSW Film Festival —Hubert Vestil In Boots Riley’s new movie, I Love Boosters, hard-up shoplifters wage...
Gun, notebook from Mangione’s backpack can be used in state trial, judge rules
NEW YORK — A judge ruled Monday that several of the belongings found in Luigi Mangione’s backpack when he was...
The Herman Miller Coyl Standing Desk Is Built Just for Gamers
When you buy a “gaming” accessory, you’re often buying a product that offers a little more oomph—a few extra perks...
Online retailer Shein to acquire San Francisco-based Everlane
Shein, one of the largest fast-fashion retailers in the world, is set to acquire the “quiet luxury” apparel brand Everlane,...
A birthday shouldn’t dictate who gets to use AI
You’re reading Superintelligent, a newsletter about AI. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Ruhan Gupta is...
Figure AI had one of its robots race a human to sort packages. It lost.
A Figure AI intern competes against a humanoid. Figure AIFigure AI pitted an intern against a humanoid in a 10-hour-long...
650 movies later, Cinespia turned a Hollywood cemetery into L.A.’s summer utopia
On most summer weekends, the Douglas Fairbanks Lawn at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery is transformed from a green expanse of...
‘One of the World’s Most Critical Digital Bottlenecks’: How the Iran War Could Threaten Global Internet Access
A satellite view showing the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf, and the topography of the Middle East. —Constantine Johnny—Getty...
