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What happens when a geek walks into a bar?

You expect a lot of things when you enter a bar. Drinks with names you can’t understand. Tipsy friends who are two shots away from deciding to start a podcast. Soggy fries. People seriously listening ...
Phys.org

From stellar engines to Dyson bubbles, alien megastructures could hold themselves together under the right conditions

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...
Wired

The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Review: Oscar-Winning ‘Navalny’ Director Confronts His Hopes and Fears About Artificial Intelligence in Lively Doc

Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell take a personal, visually inventive approach to the fast-approaching AI future in this Sundance premiere. By Caryn James Artificial intelligence may be the ultimate ...
BGR

Alien's Director Used A Smart Trick To Solve The Movie's Biggest Visual Challenge

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...
IndieWire

‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Review: An Admirable Attempt to Find Nuance on Our Era’s Defining Topic

Sundance: Director Daniel Roher makes a good-faith effort to engage with a topic whose potential impact only gets bigger the closer you look at it. Any sincere, unbiased conversation about artificial ...
Forbes

The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era

AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...
The Conversation

Feeling unprepared for the AI boom? You’re not alone

Patrick Barry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Forbes

Apple AI Pin Wearable In The Works, Report Says

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This is according to The Information, which claims Apple could release this device as soon ...
The Verge

Get ready for the AI ad-pocalypse

2026 will be the year that we really start to see AI-generated commercials and marketing content everywhere. 2026 will be the year that we really start to see AI-generated commercials and marketing ...
The Diplomat

The Military Dimension of the China-US AI Race

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This ...
Polygon

Independence Day is still the ultimate alien invasion movie

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...