Technology

Laval, Сanada - December 10, 2016:  iRobot Roomba 980 Cleaning Vacuum on a ceramic floor. iRobot Cor...
Tech

What The Roomba Can Teach Us About The Coming Wave Of AI Agents

By The Conversation and Brian O'Neill

Goal-based agents have long been part of smart electronics — but what happens when they set their own goals?

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 18: An aerial view of a flooded residential neighborhood street ...
Science

Flood Risks Are Rising Everywhere — And One Simple Solution Is Finally Getting Heard

By Julie Arbit, Brad Bottoms, Branko Kerkez and The Conversation

If federal stream gauges were bolstered by networks of cheaper monitors run by communities, the results could save lives.

PFAS can contaminate the environment – their chemical structure makes them difficult to remove.
Science

Research Shows Light Can Break Down “Forever Chemicals” — But Will It Scale?

By Xin Liu, Mihai Popescu, Arindam Sau and The Conversation

PFAS can stick around in the environment long after they’ve been used, unless we act to break them down.

Tech

What The Roomba Can Teach Us About The Coming Wave Of AI Agents

By The Conversation and Brian O'Neill

Goal-based agents have long been part of smart electronics — but what happens when they set their own goals?

Science

Flood Risks Are Rising Everywhere — And One Simple Solution Is Finally Getting Heard

By Julie Arbit, Brad Bottoms, Branko Kerkez and The Conversation

If federal stream gauges were bolstered by networks of cheaper monitors run by communities, the results could save lives.

Science

Research Shows Light Can Break Down “Forever Chemicals” — But Will It Scale?

By Xin Liu, Mihai Popescu, Arindam Sau and The Conversation

PFAS can stick around in the environment long after they’ve been used, unless we act to break them down.

Gaming

Leak Suggests Switch 2 Will Finally Fix The Original’s Most Notorious Problem

By Trone Dowd

Any day now Nintendo...

Gaming News

Switch 2's Latest Leak Shows Nintendo Following A Strong Handheld Trend

By Trone Dowd

Bigger is better.

AI

This AI Researcher Has A Warning For Those Of Us Using Autonomous Agents To Shop

By Tamilla Triantoro and The Conversation

AI shopping agents are here finding big deals and posing real security risks.

Fueling The Future

Why Utilities Are Struggling To Meet AI Data Centers’ Need For Electricity

By Anurag Srivastava and The Conversation

Across the U.S. and worldwide, energy demand is soaring as data centers work to support the wide and growing use of artificial intelligence.

Tech

What’s Next For TikTok — And What It Means For You

By Matt Williams, Eric Smalley and The Conversation

A three-judge panel upheld a law requiring ByteDance, to sell the video app by Jan. 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban on the app. So what now?

Tech

What is Salt Typhoon? A Security Expert On The Chinese Cyberattack

By Richard Forno and The Conversation

What the public needs to know about the “Salt Typhoon” hack.

Space

15 Years Later, Earth’s Most Advanced Planetary Defense System Ends In A Fiery Reentry

By Toshi Hirabayashi, Yaeji Kim and The Conversation

NEOWISE contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects.