If you've spent any time online over the last few weeks, you've probably seen a video featuring a man walking up to strangers and telling his "computer" to perform various actions on them in a series ...

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First look: Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has crossed another boundary in biological computing. Its latest hardware platform, the CL1, uses living human neurons as the core of a fully ...

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More ...

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models. The company claims that ...

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All times are interesting times, but the summer of 2016 was especially interesting. That July, as a Twitter user named Katie Loewy tried to make sense of mass shootings and Brexit and the rising ...

Come tomorrow, most internet memes will seem so yesterday, but Hilary Duff can’t seem to get this one to go away. As the Disney alum continues her pop career revival, she reflected on a moment from ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Silver traders: Welcome to your meme-stock moment. After posting the strongest year on record going back to at least 1979, silver prices have continued their rapid climb in January. On Monday, the ...

Johannes Hosflot Klaebo was so amazing in his cross country gold win at the 2026 Winter Olympics, with the Norwegian just booking it up a hill as if he was jogging and didn't have skis on his feet. It ...

Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...