In a scene right out of Black Mirror, police in China have rolled out the newest innovation in autonomous AI-powered street crime fighting: A spherical, virtually indestructible, amphibious, heavily armed device that resembles a giant bowling ball. The RT-G, manufactured by Shenzhen-based ...

When computer scientist and Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney died in 2014 from complications from ALS, his body was cryopreserved by the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation. For many in the life extension and transhumanist community, the idea of cryopreserving one’s body offers ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tenn., later this month, conference organizers announced Wednesday. “Witness history,” reads the headline on the conference website. The presumptive Republican party nominee for U.S. ...

OpenAI is partnering with historic research facility New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory to study the use of artificial intelligence in bioscience research, the company announced on Wednesday.  According to OpenAI, the White House's Executive Order on AI safety tasks the U.S. ...

Fueled by the explosive global hunger for greater computing horsepower in artificial intelligence, Nvidia on Tuesday surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable company on the planet. With Nvidia (NVDA) stock trading at $135.87 as of writing, the company has a market capitalization of ...

Google's newly released AI-powered search results are garnering lots of attention—for the wrong reasons. After the tech behemoth announced a host of new AI-powered tools last week as part of a new “Gemini Era,” its trademark web search results changed significantly, with natural language ...

Financial analyst turned stock and meme influencer Roaring Kitty has roared back onto social media. His return to Twitter on Sunday didn’t even directly mention GameStop—the stock whose rollercoaster ride sparked global headlines and a documentary film—but nonetheless prompted the price of GME ...

Leading AI developer OpenAI riled up the tech world and the mainstream press alike on Thursday when it introduced a new model specification that many interpreted to mean that its wildly popular generative AI tools would be allowed to generate not-safe-for-work adult content. “We believe ...

Following the arrest of the developers of Samourai Wallet, several other Bitcoin coin mixing operations see the writing on the wall and are leaving the United States for more crypto-friendly regions. In April, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York charged Samourai ...

Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes platform OrdinalsBot has created the largest Ordinals inscription to date, weighing in at a hefty 3.969 megabytes. Inscription number 70,614,708, the OrdinalsBot team announced Friday, contains a copy of “A Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace” by Logos Network. ...

Solana “Chapter 2” smartphone pre-order customers are already realizing benefits ahead of the phone’s expected release in 2025, thanks to a cat-powered bonus of token airdrops. The teams behind the Solana meme coins Maneki (MANEKI) and Cat in a Dogs World (MEW) airdropped tokens to the wallets ...

The Bitcoin network and its community of users is sprawling and diverse. Fans of the top cryptocurrency can participate beyond mining or inscribing dog pictures or video games by setting up a Bitcoin node, which are essential infrastructure to keep the OG blockchain decentralized and running. ...