US outlines its $5 billion Genesis Mission to boost science with AI

Several federal agencies are contributing toward the interdisciplinary research efforts. [...]

'Science fiction that happened': experts explain why OpenAI's 'mind-blowing' cyberattack should worry us all

This might be our first true glimpse of how dangerous AI could be in the future in terms of making hacks much more commonplace. [...]

20 things science has discovered about why humans are so bad at predicting their own happiness

Science reveals why predicting your own happiness is so hard, from impact bias to hedonic adaptation and the psychology behind bad forecasts [...]

Exclusive: 'We...ask the impossible of these guys, and they figure it out': I saw inside Beats' labs to see how 12 years with Apple changed the company — and why 'the testing, the tuning, the science behind the fit and the sound' is the hidden secret

Twelve years after Apple acquired Beats, TechRadar was granted exclusive access to the company's Culver City headquarters and engineering labs to discover how the iconic audio brand has preserved [...]

The AI boom has college majors of all types dabbling in computer science

Demand for AI literacy is on the rise with college students. [...]

Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree. [...]

Is It Safe to Eat Lettuce Yet?

“That product is off the market, so I think there’s absolutely lower risk for cyclospora in terms of eating lettuce,” one professor of food safety tells WIRED. [...]

It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel

Black holes eject powerful energy jets that blow away the surrounding gas to great distances. So how can they continue to grow? [...]

Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested

Exec: “Liberation Day chaos and tariff antics have harmed the domestic energy industry." [...]