While there’s much agreement that AI is good at automating routine tasks and freeing up people for more valuable work, some departments are clearly a more obvious fit than others. Finance may appear as something of an outlier; a more skeptical…
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
“If [a tool is] facing the general public, then using retraction as a kind of quality indicator is very important,” says Yuanxi Fu, an information science researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There’s “kind of an agreement that retracted papers…
Facebook adds an AI assistant to its dating app
Facebook Dating has added two new AI tools, because clearly a large language model is what the search for love and companionship has been missing all this time. The social media platform introduced a chatbot called dating assistant that can help…
Is our dream of finding ocean-covered exoplanets drying up?
Sub-Neptune planets, often billed as possible “water worlds,” may be more desert than deep sea, according to a new study. For years, scientists thought these planets, which are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, could form far from their stars,…
Apple stock blows past early 2025 high as investors rally back
Apple’s stock price comeback in late 2025 following the iPhone 17 launch shows how quickly panic can turn into profit when strategy and timing line up. Apple stock bounces back After facing early turbulence from tariffs, AI skepticism, and broader economic…
Forget the iPhone 17 Pro – the Galaxy S25 Ultra is cheaper with this incredible deal at Samsung
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is easily one of 2025’s best phones – and right now’s a particularly good time to consider picking one up, as the official Samsung site has just brought back one of its best deals yet on…
An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
The agreement will see Eni purchase electricity from Commonwealth’s first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. The facility is still in the planning stages but is scheduled to come online in the early 2030s. The news comes a few weeks after…
The best multi-device wireless charging pads for 2025
We all have so many gadgets now that we use and take with us regularly, and there’s a good chance that at least a few of yours support wireless charging. Whether its your phone, wireless earbuds, smartwatch or all three of…
See the moon ‘bite’ the sun in 1st photos of September 2025 partial solar eclipse
The moon and sun put on a magnificent show on Sept. 21 when a dramatic partial solar eclipse darkened the sky over a swathe of the Pacific ocean, transforming the disk of our parent star into a radiant crescent. Each partial…
Apple's in-house chip play has a big AI payoff in the future
Apple’s decision to design its own chips has helped it exert more control over the capabilities of the iPhone 17 lineup. It will also help further its AI ambitions. A19 Pro – Image Credit: Apple Apple may be one of the…