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Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic publisher, doesn’t let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic publisher, doesn’t let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed — Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic publisher, has clarified its policies on the use of AI writing tools in scientific papers.

Best Mac VPN in 2023

The best Mac VPN you can sign up for right now won’t surprise you, but there are a few other choices that might. Here are all the best options you can check out today.

Watch This Tiny Liquid Metal Robot Do a T-1000 Impression

You may think that when and if the robot apocalypse happens, we’ll be able to lock the robots up to keep humanity safe. Well, think again. A team of researchers from the Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon University have created a rudimentary robot that can become a liquid on demand, a capability the lead

M&M’s Are the Best Trolls on the Internet

After a long crusade by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, the brand put its spokescandies on hiatus. It’s a savvy move that seems designed for social media.

Samsung Galaxy A14 5G Review: A Phenomenal $200 Phone

The Galaxy A14 5G is easily the best phone you can buy for $200.

Alphabet’s Layoffs Aren’t Very Googley

The company’s founders pioneered putting employees first and said they’d never bow down to Wall Street. How things have changed.

After losing billions on mobile bets, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten raised ~$1.9B for its mobile business and plans to sell its banking and securities units (Finbarr Flynn/Bloomberg)

Finbarr Flynn / Bloomberg: After losing billions on mobile bets, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten raised ~$1.9B for its mobile business and plans to sell its banking and securities units — Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group Inc. sold 250 billion yen ($1.9 billion) of bonds on Friday, giving the company …

The first AI-written speech delivered by congressman is as flavorless as you’d expect

Representative Jake Auchincloss speaks to reporters in 2020. | Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images We’ve reached the political stunt stage of AI-generated text, it seems. As reported by WBZ NewsRadio, CBS Boston, and others, the Democratic Representative for Massachusetts, Jake Auchincloss, has become the first member of congress to deliver an

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says Elon Musk “doesn’t seem like” the right owner for Twitter and claims morale and content improvements have been lost under Musk (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says Elon Musk “doesn’t seem like” the right owner for Twitter and claims morale and content improvements have been lost under Musk — Biz Stone, one of quartet who set up company, says positive changes he oversaw have been undone by Tesla chief executive

4 Best Webcams (2023): Razer, Logitech, and More

Bring a little light (and proper color contrast) into your life with these cameras.

Robot Lawyer Barred From Fighting Traffic Ticket in Court

(Credit: AndreyPopov/Getty Images)We may have robot frycooks, robot bartenders, and even robot shoe-shiners, but robot lawyers are apparently where we draw the line. Human lawyers have prevented an artificial intelligence-equipped robot from appearing in court, where it was scheduled to fight a defendant’s speeding ticket. The “robot lawyer” is the latest creation from DoNotPay, a

You can save up to $200 off 13-inch MacBook Pro M2 at Best Buy

The MacBook Pro 13-inch with M2 Is one of the best Macs of last year, and now there’s a nice $200 off one at BestBuy – and more deals in the Apple Best Buy store.

Analysis of hundreds of ads on Truth Social: major brands are non-existent, replaced by diet pills, miracle cures, gun accessories, and Trump-themed trinkets (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Analysis of hundreds of ads on Truth Social: major brands are non-existent, replaced by diet pills, miracle cures, gun accessories, and Trump-themed trinkets — Truth Social, the social network started by former President Donald J. Trump, has struggled to attract large brands.

The Vivo X90 series is launching globally next week

Credit: Vivo Vivo has announced a global launch date for the X90 series of phones. The new flagship handsets will launch on February 3. Vivo launched the X90 series of flagship phones in China in late November 2022, offering plenty of horsepower and versatile, Zeiss-branded camera systems. We’ve had to wait a while for a

How Sensor-Dangling Helicopters Can Help Beat the Water Crisis

A simultaneous solution to California’s extreme drought and flooding is to bank more water underground. Send in the choppers (and a few ATVs).

ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet

ADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.

Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People

Workers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped.

Crispr Wants to Feed the World

The power to fight human diseases put genome editing on the map. But similar technology could help crops withstand the stress of climate change.

I Started a Bike Bus, and You Can Too

It’s official: the best way to improve both your life and your community is to get everyone to cycle to school together.

Wolfenstein 3D, As You Never Imagined It.

When tracing the history of first-person shooting (FPS) games, where do you credit with the genesis of the genre? Anyone who played 3D Monster Maze on the Sinclair ZX81 might dare to raise a hand, but we’re guessing that most of you will return to the early 1990s, and id Software. Their 1992 title Wolfenstein

Nothing Phone 2: Everything we know so far

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The Nothing Phone 1 was one of the most unique smartphones we saw in 2022. OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei started Nothing with the goal of breathing some new life into the stagnant mobile market. Now that the company has declared its intentions with the Phone 1, what can we

16 Qualities You Need to Be Productive

You may have heard that highly productive people wake up at 4 am, run 10 miles, and attain enlightenment before sunrise. But that’s not always true. Rather, they come in many varieties ranging from late risers, early risers, singles, couples, and family members. So what are the most common traits of highly productive people? They are constantly

Perseverance Sends Back Weather Report on Its First Full Martian Year

The Perseverance rover has spent almost two Earth years on Mars, which is just a single Martian year. With a full seasonal cycle in the books, researchers from the University of the Basque Country in Madrid have released the first detailed weather report from Perseverance. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, explores how temperature, wind

The downsides of cloud-native solutions

A recent study by Gartner predicts that by 2025 more than 95% of application workloads will exist on cloud-native platforms (up from 30% in 2021). I tend not to believe these kinds of predictions because adoption is never linear. We run out of applications that are easy to convert to new development approaches (in this case, cloud

Google services to offer more accurate information in compliance with EU

Outside of providing more transparency for its customers, Google is still under pressure to fully comply with the EU’s geo-blocking regulations. | Illustration: The Verge Many of Google’s offerings will soon be updated to provide clear and accurate information in compliance with consumer protection laws in the EU. Announced by the European Commission on Thursday,

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