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This AI Researcher Has A Warning For Those Of Us Using Autonomous Agents To Shop

By Tamilla Triantoro and The Conversation

AI shopping agents are here finding big deals and posing real security risks.

Aerial View The biggest brown coal power plant of the world.
Fueling The Future

Why Utilities Are Struggling To Meet AI Data Centers’ Need For Electricity

By Anurag Srivastava and The Conversation

Across the U.S. and worldwide, energy demand is soaring as data centers work to support the wide and growing use of artificial intelligence.

TikTok takes on the U.S. government.
Tech

What’s Next For TikTok — And What It Means For You

By Matt Williams, Eric Smalley and The Conversation

A three-judge panel upheld a law requiring ByteDance, to sell the video app by Jan. 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban on the app. So what now?

AI

This AI Researcher Has A Warning For Those Of Us Using Autonomous Agents To Shop

By Tamilla Triantoro and The Conversation

AI shopping agents are here finding big deals and posing real security risks.

Fueling The Future

Why Utilities Are Struggling To Meet AI Data Centers’ Need For Electricity

By Anurag Srivastava and The Conversation

Across the U.S. and worldwide, energy demand is soaring as data centers work to support the wide and growing use of artificial intelligence.

Tech

What’s Next For TikTok — And What It Means For You

By Matt Williams, Eric Smalley and The Conversation

A three-judge panel upheld a law requiring ByteDance, to sell the video app by Jan. 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban on the app. So what now?

Tech

What is Salt Typhoon? A Security Expert On The Chinese Cyberattack

By Richard Forno and The Conversation

What the public needs to know about the “Salt Typhoon” hack.

Space

15 Years Later, Earth’s Most Advanced Planetary Defense System Ends In A Fiery Reentry

By Toshi Hirabayashi, Yaeji Kim and The Conversation

NEOWISE contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects.

Health

This High School Science Concept May Be The Key To Massively Advanced Pathogen Detection

By Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas and The Conversation

Microfluidic electrophoresis could lead to faster, cheaper pathogen detection everywhere.

AI In Art

What The Emerging AI Aesthetic In Film Says About Us

By Holly Willis and The Conversation

The unusual output of artists using AI for video has a message — but it may be one that we don’t exactly control.

Our Sci-Fi Lives

83 Years Ago, One Sci-Fi Writer’s Prediction Of A Coming Content Crisis Eerily Resonates Today

By Roger J. Kreuz and The Conversation

Imagine an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but can you find it?

Screen Time

The Science Of Screen Time Is Flawed — But We Need It More Than Ever

By Rinanda Shaleha and The Conversation

In an era where digital devices are everywhere, how we study screen time matters.

Tech

The Weird Look Of Modern Bike Helmets Are Nothing Compared To Their Pith And Leather Forebears

By Jud Ready and The Conversation

Trust us, you wouldn’t want to crash with an early 20th century helmet.