Cookies made from plastic are real: engineered baker’s yeast turns old bottles and corn stalks into protein. How it works, and why nobody has tasted one yet.
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Australia Wants to Let You Turn Off the Algorithm
Australia wants to let you turn off the algorithm on social media. The part still undecided is which way the switch starts – and that is the whole thing.
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AI Fusion Plasma Control: 200ms Early, and No Longer a Demo
AI fusion plasma control predicted a plasma tear 200 milliseconds early — and the bigger news is the part almost nobody reported. Here is the honest read.
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Living Transistors: MIT’s Bacteria Compute in 8 Hours
MIT built living transistors from bacteria that really compute — but each calculation takes eight hours. Here is what that slowness quietly reveals about life.
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WiFi Can Now Identify You — No Camera, No Phone Needed
Researchers showed ordinary WiFi can identify you with almost perfect accuracy — no camera, no phone in your pocket. Here is how it works, and what it misses.
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NASA Satellites Navigate Without GPS by Watching Space Junk
NASA’s Starling satellites learned to navigate without GPS by watching space junk and dead satellites. Then they improved the very map they were given.
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Mechanical Turk Is Closing. It Was Never a Machine.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk closes September 30 after 21 years. It was named for a chess machine with a person hidden inside, and it worked exactly the same way.
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An AI Is Finding Software Bugs Faster Than Microsoft Can Fix Them
An AI model is uncovering hundreds of hidden flaws in Microsoft’s software faster than engineers can patch them — and what that reveals runs deeper than tech.
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A New Study Found AI Companions Can Make Loneliness Worse — Not Better
A new Stanford study found AI companions can deepen loneliness in people with smaller social circles. Here is what the data actually shows — and why it matters.
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Scientists Just Built a Computer Chip That Remembers Like a Brain — Using DNA
Penn State scientists fused DNA with a semiconductor to build a memory chip that stores and processes data exactly like a human brain, using 100x less power.