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Explaining Blockchain Capital's Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb

This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it's harder by the day to distinguish a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding.Led by the ...

How to Co-Parent With a Narcissist

How to Co-Parent With a Narcissist

NASA's Artemis program may face a budget crunch as costs continue to rise

The Artemis program to return humans to the Moon has an aura of inevitability now, with broad political support, robust international participation, and a successful first mission--Artemis I--under it...

You're Probably Underestimating AI Chatbots

[photo1]Steven LevyIn the spring of 2007, I was one of four journalists anointed by Steve Jobs to review the iPhone. This was probably the most anticipated product in the history of tech. What would i...

Elvis Director Baz Luhrmann Doesn't Think AI Will Conquer Movies

[photo1]Angela WatercutterThe Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Baz Luhrmann blends in well here. The Austra...

"Smoke archaeology" reveals early humans were visiting Nerja Caves 41,000 years ago

For over a decade, Maria Medina, an archaeologist affiliated with the University of Cordoba, has been conducting research on what she terms "smoke archaeology": trying to reconstruct Europe's prehisto...

This App Can ID Any Bird In Your Neighborhood by Sight or Sound

We become desensitized to the common sounds around us--car alarms, chattering squirrels, the mechanical functions of modern living kicking on and off throughout the day. If you had asked me a week ago...

What to Do When One Child Thinks They're the 'Bad Kid'

It can happen innocently enough. One child is a determined rule-follower, the other is a risk-taker. The oldest is a leader, the youngest is a clown, and the middle child is insecure. You slyly refer ...

Weird SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in mink suggests hidden source of virus in the wild

Between September to January of this year, mink in three Polish farms tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2-- presenting a concerning mystery as to how the animals became infected.<...

This is what a plant sounds like when it's stressed

New research challenges assumptions that the plant kingdom is silent. Turns out, plants make a lot of noise when they're stressed.Other plants and animals might even be able to interpret those sounds....

Can AI make better art than humans? We asked IBM's Seth Dobrin

Artificial intelligence has been infiltrating every industry and the world of arts and culture is no exception. In other words, AI art is poised to explode.AI text-to-image generators such as DALL-E o...

Insect farming startup targets pet food as gateway to human consumption

Evolving views on food are challenging traditional diets -- and not just for humans. Innovative dining options are also being added to the menus of our pets.Startups have proposed numerous new ways to...

Should I Learn Coding as a Second Language?

[photo1]Meghan O'GieblynTechnologyMachine learning"I can't code, and this bums me out because--with so many books and courses and camps--there are so many opportunities to learn these days. ...

Pivot to ChatGPT? BuzzFeed preps for AI-written content while CNET fumbles

On Thursday, an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal revealed that BuzzFeed is planning to use ChatGPT-style text synthesis technology from OpenAI to create individualized qui...

When Did the Anthropocene Actually Begin?

Damian Carrington
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This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Exactly where and when did the Anthropocene begin? Scientists are atte...

Google ‘Confirmed by phone’ label in local panel may add trust to local listings

Google is testing displaying in some local panel listing results within search if the local details of the business have been confirmed. Google is adding a label to the local listing that says "confir...