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Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. prescribed as ‘potent antidote’ for adults suffering burnout

Replaying familiar video games like Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi may help…
Gossiping AI chatbots.

‘Feral’ AI chatbots are spreading shame and destroying reputations

Artificial intelligence is evolving into a “feral” gossip machine capable of ruining…
Biological AI chips

New theory suggests AI may never be conscious without ‘biological’ chips

The debate over whether Artificial Intelligence can ever truly be conscious has…
Gun violence protests.

US politicians inhabit ‘parallel universes’ on X after mass shootings

Democratic congressmembers are more than three times as likely to post on…
Conscious AI and shrimps.

AI consciousness claims are ‘existentially toxic’ and unprovable

The only scientifically justifiable position on artificial intelligence is “agnosticism”, meaning humans…
The robots appear black and silvery gray in the grayscale image, with tiny gray squares and rectangles on one side and plain gray on the back

World’s smallest programmable robots cost one penny and run for months

The world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have launched, able to sense…
AI and alcoholism.

AI exposes alcohol screening ‘blind spot’, finds 60 times more at-risk patients

Artificial intelligence has revealed a staggering gap in the detection of dangerous…
Baldur's Gate 3

Digital avatars become lifelines for gender expression and mental health

Video game characters are far more than pixelated heroes for transgender and…
Poor security at Meta.

New privacy metric reveals Meta trails LinkedIn and X in user protection

Researchers have developed a new probabilistic metric to measure digital privacy, revealing…