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- Lightspeed Commerce CEO: our study analyzed half a million AI shopping responses and revealed who gets to compete
For decades, the internet has promised to level the playing field for retailers. Is AI taking that away?
- Puerto Rico’s power rates jump 18% to a record high, nearly double the US mainland average
A typical monthly bill will rise from $229 to $271 as outages persist across the island’s fragile power grid.
- Drake, Victoria Monet And Quavo Lead This Week’s New Release Rollouts
The first Friday of October featured major album rollouts from Drake, Victoria Monét, and Quavo. We're breaking down each rollout.
- For 25 years, locked cockpits have kept intruders out. The FlyDubai attack exposed the danger inside
The alleged attack is raising questions about pilot screening and a security system largely designed to stop threats from outside the cockpit.
- Americans rebel against Trump’s red-baiting, sending socialism to a record high in opinion polling
More than four in 10 Americans quite like the sound of it, shrugging off Trump's warnings about "communism, socialism and Marxism."
Technology
- The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for…
- TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
Can it be Mini LED without a FALD backlight?
- A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth
This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for getting younger. I recently turned 40, and I don’t need reminding that both time and my chronological age only tick forward. But this game is focused on competitors’ biological ages—figures that are meant to provide a better way to measure…
- Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…
- Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
A physical model show that iron dust and sulfuric acid create the right properties.
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