Enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe. The Indonesian volcano known as Anak Krakatau, or Child […]
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Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
Most are part of larger ecosystems, directly adjacent or ecologically connected to better known national parks and wilderness areas. Removing […]
Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
At the local level, the robotaxi operator has outspent both Uber and Zoox in lobbying legislators in the District of […]
Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is […]
Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician. Meta platforms recently ran ads for an […]
As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers
“This is definitely a case of environmental injustice,” she said. “If they had access to capital, to land, to nondiscriminatory […]
Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX
Nvidia has committed more than $100 billion to AI companies in the past two years, with sizeable investments in cloud […]
Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
The research doesn’t look at how much time the mother was spending outside, if she wore an N95 mask or […]
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
Next were natural gas combustion turbines, with 22, and natural gas internal combustion engines, with 21. Onshore wind had nine […]
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
AI labs offer a range of models with different capabilities and prices, with costs varying further according to the version […]