This is why we called PrEP one of the best ideas of the 21st century - truly a miracle of science www.newscientist.com/article/2510...

My leader on banning social media, and more broadly the place of science in policymaking www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

A "sentient sun"... But the physics of putting data centres in space is extremely challenging, to say the least www.newscientist.com/article/2509...

Wondering why? Read our piece from last week. Personally, I don't think this is going to end well... www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Worth remembering that SpaceX is currently committed to landing on the moon next year, using a mission architecture that has never been attempted. Is it also going to build data centres in space at the same time? Or will it let one or both of these goals slide?

A "sentient sun"... But the physics of putting data centres in space is extremely challenging, to say the least www.newscientist.com/article/2509...

Wondering why? Read our piece from last week. Personally, I don't think this is going to end well... www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Should you be feeding your kids melatonin gummies to get them to sleep? www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

Should you be feeding your kids melatonin gummies to get them to sleep? www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

My leader on banning social media, and more broadly the place of science in policymaking www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Millennials, have you ever deep fried at home? All the safety videos we watched at school have me thinking that if I were ever to attempt such a thing, my entire house will catch fire. How do I get over this fear?

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Weeks don't begin on Sunday and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise

What are we teaching people in schools that they get it this wrong smh www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

This is clear cobblers

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

I'll take it

ok wow. in 2020, as a former tech journalist, i had a large twitter account, so i asked elon musk to comment on why he had been photographed with ghislaine maxwell and whether the rumors jeffrey epstein had toured space x were true

We currently accept the deaths of children and adults caused by people driving cars all the time. The road death statistics bear that out, as does the hysterical screeching from certain people every time a single road safety measure is suggested.

Some might say smartphones have caused more harm than good. Here’s why putting a powerful computer into every pocket was a good idea.

Genuinely, the high cost of a subscription. You are paying for a quality product with high standards

Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems like a non-issue to me www.theguardian.com/business/202...

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

I'm sorry what

Another British business sells out to foreign investors...

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

He's done it again. This time making a *budget* interesting.

Oh wow, I both hate this and am utterly fascinated by it

Elon Musk looks like he's rejigging his companies to make a big bet on the future - but will it work? The folks at @newscientist.com tasked me with finding out www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Are you one of the 1%? No, not the ultra-rich - I'm talking about people with top-quality, medical-grade poo www.newscientist.com/article/2512...

Every time an American says 'math', an angle dies.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

This is great. Clearly the cringe is the point: old lady art historian speaking Gen Z fluently is so hilarious it’ll get shared - and that will bring her work to new audiences. Really smart and doing it perfectly is part of that.

So I watched this and counted more than 100 separate shots, in a video that lasts a little over 200 seconds. That's because AI video simply cannot do cohesive scenes without errors that last for more than a few seconds www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV52...

Fascinating deep dive on Waymo coming to London from @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/waymo-lond...

This trailer is not doing a lot to assure me that it won't just be a bunch of very short, slowly panning clips - i.e. the vast majority of AI video output

it's all like if texas instruments announced they're replacing their entire line of calculators with boxes that have a little microphone for natural language input instead of buttons, get the answer fundamentally wrong around half the time, and require a subscription. previous models are unavailable

This sure seems legal

Musk getting ready to contaminate his one good business with all the rest? Tesla just invested in xAI so this would tie it all together

When you've been searching high and low for something and still can't find it, go back to the very first place you tried and it's usually right there. You just didn't collapse the wave function properly the first time.

Not to alarm you, but physicists are saying the universe is fundamentally unknowable. Just something to think about on a Thursday afternoon www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

Quite a telling quote from previous coverage. Men being disengaged from the real world is a big multiplier for social media brain.

Strong stuff from @mjflepage.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

arXiv is not going to survive the wave of slop heading its way

The Doomsday Clock is astrology for nerds and you won't convince me otherwise

Just saw someone sharing an article about an LLM company stealing copyrighted material, via a link that bypasses the paywall. No irony detected...