Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days, ending in Chiang Mai. Walking with us were ten other smart interesting people, including five other authors whose work I’ve loved for years. It’s a “Walk and…

Then Life Continued

This bill would be a danger to the internet.

Strike 3 Holdings says it's the creator of 'artistic' and 'inspiring' pornography. Some judges call it a copyright troll that makes millions by threatening to out those who download its films.

SpaceX appears on track for at least a preliminary propellant transfer test next year.

Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company. 

Answer.AI will figure out the fundamental research needed to tame AI, and the development path needed to make it useful in practice

Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on…

Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?

By Krish Prasad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation Division Broadcom’s close of the VMware acquisition has brought together two engineering-first, innovation-centric teams to help build the world’s leading infrastructure technology…

Visit the official Fntastic website to explore the company's latest video games and read the latest news and updates.

Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design

Rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City, Palestinians describe being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2024 here.

Dec. 10, 2023: (Spaceweather.com) For years, astronomers have worried that Betelgeuse might explode. Instead, it’s about to disappear. On Dec. 11th (USA) and 12th (Europe), main belt asteroid…

Ross Levinsohn sacking was to ‘improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company’, says board, two weeks after fake authors exposed

Office landlords, hit hard by the work-from-home revolution, are resorting to a desperate measure in the real estate world: “handing back the keys.” When this happens, the landlord stops paying the mortgage on the office building or declines to refinance…