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The expensive coffee maker with Brad Pitt as its spokesmodel is better than a capsule-based machine but not as good as competing single-cup brewers.

The Climate Clock in New York City's Union Square in early July 2023. | Image: Climate Clock An ominous, 62-foot-long clock looms over New York City's iconic Union Square, and it's about to tick past a worrying milestone...

In Calgary, Alberta, there is a huge annual fair called the Calgary Stampede. A once-a-year celebration dubbed "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth". Full of rides, games, and lots of rodeo events, this show attracts 1.5 ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has left a vast field of rubble strewn around asteroid Dimorphos, Hubble images show.

She should be ashamed of herself!

The cosmic zoo has strange beasts that astronomers stumble across in the most fascinating ways. Not long ago a team in Australia found a highly unusual magnetar, one of the weirder denizens of the starry zoo. It’s call...

If you pay for Spotify Premium, get ready to pay more for the first time ever. Spotify Premium, which gives a subscriber unlimited access to … The post Spotify is about to hike the price of its Premium plan, but you’...

Meta has announced the availability of Llama 2, a proper open-source alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The tech giants and ChatGPT creator OpenAI are among the companies that met with President Joe Biden and signed the voluntary agreement.

The funding is meant to encourage the creation of more-recyclable and longer-lasting solar panels.

Apple Music is in second place to Spotify in paying subscribers, but Apple Music is the better service. Here are the eight things keeping me on Apple Music. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

Plus: Microsoft expands access to premium security features, AI child sexual abuse material is on the rise, and Netflix's password crackdown has its intended effect.

We get it, relationships are hard. But asking ChatGPT how to do emotions is not going to work. Here are some better ideas.

Amazon is asking some corporate workers to relocate to other cities as part of its return-to-office policy, which mandates workers to be in the office three days a week.

Ken and Audrey Mattlin live with a family of robots that can play trivia, turn on the TV and act as security. But will all this technology cure loneliness?

Ancient glacier sediment may be 2.9 billion years old.

Apple has warned that it would rather stop offering iMessage and FaceTime services in the U.K. than bowing down to government pressure in response to new proposals that seek to expand digital surveillance powers availabl...

Somebody needs to go to AA immediately...

Still, judge finds 'reason to believe' Feds are getting better at not abusing snooping powers The FBI improperly spied on a US senator, a state senator, and a state-level judge, among others, according to a previously se...

Nice one, Joe, get those non-binding voluntary pledges in early Seven top AI development houses have promised to test their models, share research, and develop methods to watermark machine-generated content in a bid to m...

"A lady on Facebook once told me I look like Voldemort's lethargic grandson."

Image: Google Adding alt text to an image in a Google Workspace project is getting much easier after an update included the accessibility improvement. Until recently, adding alt text to images was hidden behind a right-c...