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Apple delivered its latest budget handset, the $599 iPhone 16e, without pomp. There was no big event in person, nor was there one online. No journalists scrambled through hoards of colleagues to snap photos of the phone. Instead, CEO Tim…

Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps, and services. But what’s Gemini? How can you use it? And how does it stack up to other generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s…

The Bété I archaeological site in Ivory Coast was overgrown when researchers visited in 2020 Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG Humans were living in a tropical rainforest in West Africa 150,000 years ago. The finding pushes human habitation of tropical forests much…

If you want to stop potholes from forming in asphalt roads, you’ve gotta get ’em while they’re still just tiny cracks. A new self-healing asphalt could one day do that very thing, utilizing spores obtained from moss. The experimental material…

What you need to know After initially being teased, the Retroid Pocket Flip 2 specs and colors have been revealed. The Pocket Flip 2 will be available with either the Snapdragon 865 or the Dimensity 1100. Pricing and availability are…

Feb 24, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Welcome to your weekly roundup of cyber news, where every headline gives you a peek into the world of online battles. This week, we look at a huge crypto theft, reveal some sneaky AI scam tricks,…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that someday we’ll have a billion cars on the road and they will all be robotic cars. It sounds like science fiction, but as Huang has said before, “I am science fiction.” He made the…

The researchers observed this “emergent misalignment” phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though it appeared across multiple model families. The paper, “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow fine-tuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs,” shows that GPT-4o in particular shows troubling behaviors…

February 24, 2025 3 min read A Derecho Damaged Skyscrapers More Than a Hurricane Did A powerful derecho last year caused more damage to Houston’s tallest buildings than Hurricane Beryl. Scientists wanted to know why By Chelsea Harvey & E&E…

I’ve been traveling through time this week. Reviewing the iPhone 16e feels at once like I’m visiting my younger self and also forced to live in olden times, especially since I’ve been using an iPhone 16 Pro for months. No…