'It's an unsettling feat': How Florida's invasive python kills its prey

Burmese pythons in Florida are devouring animals as small as rabbits and as big as deer and alligators. How they do it is ...

Pythons' extreme biology may hold clues for treating human disease

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...
Machine Design

Coding Smarter, Not Harder: Integrating AI into Programming Workflow

Love it or loathe it, AI is reshaping engineering, and the winners will be those who learn to work alongside it.
Hackaday

Documenting The IR Protocol Of The PumpSaver Plus Device

Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate ...
Harvard Business Review

How People Are Really Using AI in 2026

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...
The New York Times

A Whole Generation Seems to Be Using ‘POV’ Wrong

Gen Z might be using the abbreviation for “point of view” incorrectly. But linguists think it’s exciting. By Nitsuh Abebe Two months ago, Griffin Bassett uploaded one of the language-education videos ...
The Washington Post

See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article.

Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
New York Magazine

The People Falsely Accused of Using AI

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The Hill

UK allows US to use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz

The United Kingdom will allow the U.S. to use British military bases to carry out strikes against Iranian missile sites being used to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.K. government ...
The Conversation

More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them ...