Month: October 2025

283 posts
virtual reality

Stanford study finds VR fosters personal attachment to boost climate concern

Immersive virtual reality can make distant impacts of climate change feel immediate…
Doritos

Student handcuffed at gunpoint after AI mistakes crisps for weapon

Police officers drew their guns and handcuffed a student at a Baltimore…
Augmented reality.

Physicists shrink entire HD display to fit on area smaller than a pinhead

Scientists have built a pixel measuring just 300 nanometres across that could…
Memory loss.

Scientists reverse memory loss by ‘turning genes back on’ in aging brains

Researchers have successfully restored fading memories in older rats by reactivating silenced…
Oreos

Oreo maker cuts advertising production costs up to 50% with new AI tool

Snack manufacturer Mondelez International has invested more than $40 million in artificial…
Newspapers

One in 10 US news articles contains AI-generated text, Pangram study reveals

Nearly one in 10 news articles published by American newspapers contains artificial…
Poo

AI beats human experts at finding parasites in stool samples, Utah study shows

Artificial intelligence can detect intestinal parasites in stool samples with greater accuracy…
European Union

EU finds Meta and TikTok breached digital content rules, risk 6% revenue fines

Meta and TikTok have breached European Union digital content rules by restricting…
Piggy bank

Banks face $170bn AI threat as customers ditch low-rate accounts

McKinsey warns that customer adoption of AI agents could trigger catastrophic profit…
SnapChat Imagine Lens

Snapchat makes AI image generator free as Meta and OpenAI advance video tools

Snapchat has made its Imagine Lens, the company’s first open prompt image-generation…