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A year before she died, Sophie Rottenberg climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Her mother says her “tiny hand” photos were a signature joke. Mourners were given the toys at her funeral. She was 29. Reiley Rottenberg familyhide caption

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published August 6, 2026 (GAO-26-107847) examines the potential benefits and challenges of using wearables in clinical decision-making. Wearables use sensors to track vital signs and establish patient health baselines, then alert users, caregivers, or clinicians of medical events or suggested lifestyle changes. They can also provide additional assessments of…

Recently, a member of staff at Anthropic gave Claude an unreasonable challenge. It was about one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics: Take a real stab at the Riemann hypothesis.

Malicious cyber activity has affected technology at water systems in at least seven states last week, forcing some facilities to switch to manual operations and prompting the FBI and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to warn facilities nationwide of hackers.  

In the past week, Google has teased quite a bit about Gemini 4, as 3.5 Pro missed its June launch.

Korean electronics giant LG is taking heat over intrusive settings on its TVs and computer monitors — and the backlash may just be getting started.

In 2023, Qiang, a 30-year-old project manager at a Chinese tech firm, emphasized to me the concept of “cognition.” Upset by the alleged short-sightedness of his company, he recalled his original ambition of becoming an entrepreneur like Zhang Xiaolong, the “father of WeChat” — China’s ubiquitous messaging and payment app. “Look,” he said, “how high…

As part of Netflix’s second-quarter earnings report, the streamer announced that it was integrating generative AI into more of its productions, claiming that AI has been used in roughly 300 Netflix shows and movies in 2026 so far.

What would be the likely effects of massive introduction of artificial intelligence in the economy from the Marxist point of view?

“It makes it to where thinking is optional, and that should never be the case,” says Prado. “You don’t think, you don’t learn. It’s making us dumber.”