E-commerce websites might also try to pivot to the agentic attention economy, but the path forward there is unclear. Last year, a team led by Akshit Kumar, an assistant professor of operations management at the University of Toronto, investigated...
I have received many, many Star Wars gifts over the years. I spent the first Christmas Day that I can remember flying Luke and his X-wing around the house. I met Darth Vader (David Prowse) when I was 6....
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here.New research shared exclusively...
A more remote possibility is that planarian worms themselves have somehow changed over the last six decades—falling victim to pollution or genetic drift. Gershman finds this scenario unlikely. “What are the chances that a bunch of researchers just happened...
8 Battery makers are finding a new market in the USThey’re pivoting from EVs to grid storage. (WSJ $)+ Batteries just broke another record in the US. (MIT Technology Review) 9 A humanist has received a religious exemption from using...
Where I live, it's officially leaf season, and they are everywhere. Driveways, sidewalks, and even blowing into my garage, where they stick to people's feet as they come inside. Luckily, we have exhaustively tested all the major battery-powered leaf...
What’s worse is that the number is likely to be much higher than that once we factor in other eating disorders. And, disturbingly, those in the field are already starting to see GLP-1 weight-loss drugs exacerbating the issue. Cheri...
1 Hackers exposed 41,000 Homeland Security workersIncluding undercover ICE agents. (Wired $)+ Much of the data relates to Customs and Border Protection. (TechCrunch)+ It also linked the agencies to specific surveillance tools. (Reuters $)+ Big Tech is pushing back...
Flexibility matters when resizing windows across any device. But while announcing its updates, Apple also dropped major hints that all but confirmed new hardware—it showed iPhone apps running on an iPad or a Mac could resize to a suspiciously...
Companies are mostly still piloting AI use cases (according to 38% of respondents) or using it to assist employees’ work with tools like co-pilots or chat assistants (35%). Just 12% of enterprises have AI agents in production and 3%...
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