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Moon phase today: What the moon will look like on July 4, 2025
Don't forget to look up tonight. We’re moving closer and closer to the Full Moon, and tonight the moon is more than half lit. This is due to where we are in the current lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is a recurring series of eight unique phases of the moon’s visibility. The whole cycle takes […]
Haunted no more: Season 4 of 'The Bear' confronts its ghosts
Carmy's not going to run away anymore. Since its debut in 2022, The Bear has been a haunted show. The ghosts aren’t paranormal visitors but a collection of regrets, fears, and traumas as diverse as the series’ many characters. Each individual is trailed by a destructive shadow, ready to sabotage any progress toward being a […]
Racist, antisemitic Veo 3 AI videos on TikTok, report finds
The Google text-to-video generator produced hateful video clips that went viral. Viral racist and antisemitic TikTok videos appear to be made with Google’s new AI video generator Veo 3, according to a new report from Media Matters. The nonprofit research organization found that some of the hateful videos had racked up hundreds …
AI chatbots often distort nations' human rights records, study finds
LLM bias has the potential to warp perceptions on how nations treat their citizens. LLMs — the data models powering your favorite AI chatbots — don’t just have social and racial biases, a new report finds, but inherent biases against democratic institutions. A recent study, published by researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management, […]
Moon phase today: What the moon will look like on July 3, 2025
The moon is putting on a show tonight. The moon is looking bright in the sky tonight, and that’s for good reason. It’s all down to where we are in the current lunar cycle. What is the lunar cycle, you ask? This is a recurring series of eight unique phases of the moon’s visibility. The […]
Nana's best friend is a robot? AI companion aims to cure the loneliness epidemic.
A new service just launched in North America that allows unlimited phone calls between seniors and “Mary.” Vassili Le Moigne wanted to make sure his mom was OK. Having long ago moved from France to the U.S., the former Microsoft executive struggled to connect with his aging mother as much as he hoped to, especially […]
A Jupiter-size planet as delicate as cotton candy provokes its star
The exoplanet started it. The star will finish it. A gas giant planet in distant space has kicked the cosmic hornet’s nest: After the world’s relentless taunting, its fiery star is after revenge, and the planet will suffer the consequences, astronomers say. Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, …
Astronomers caught a star that blew up not once, but twice when it died
Bang, bang. Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows the first proof of a rare kind of stellar death called a …