A little-known change to the tax code during Donald Trump's first presidency seems to be the driving factor behind all those tech layoffs over the past few years. As Quartz reports, a 2017 change to a 70-year-old tax law governing business spending

A team of more than two dozen AI researchers have trained a large language model only using data that was openly licensed or in the public domain, the Washington Post reports, showing that it's possible to create more ethical AI models. But, as the

You've heard of how mighty supernovas are, or of the ungodly amounts of energy released by gamma ray bursts.   But astronomers have discovered a type of cosmic blast that puts all those to shame. They're called "extreme nuclear transients" (ENTs)

The standard model of cosmology may be the best explanation we've got for why the universe is the way it is and how it all came to be. But it's not the only explanation. Enter black hole cosmology. It's a radical idea which proposes that the Big Bang

This year’s WWDC kicks off in less than a week, which means Apple is likely to announce a string of software changes in short order, some of which are designed to improve Apple’s latest pair of premium earbuds. Thankfully, if you haven’t

Americans — next time you fly, the folks at the Transportation Safety Administration have a simple reminder: no, your Costco Membership is not a valid form of ID. The bizarre reminder came days ago, amidst a renewed flurry of web traffic (and

I usually struggle with strategy games. They're typically too hard for me, and I often get overwhelmed at managing multiple characters or squads. But I couldn't put down Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, which blends ideas from

A leading artificial intelligence pioneer is concerned by the technology's propensity to lie and deceive — and he's founding his own nonprofit to curb such behavior. In a blog post announcing LawZero, the new nonprofit venture, AI godfather Yoshua