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Image: Foundry These early days of AI development are filled with promises, potential, excitement, hallucinations, and abominations. These early days are also costing us a lot of money, too. Take RAM, for example. Prices have skyrocketed because demand has skyrocketed, thanks to AI infrastructure needs. So far, the Apple consumer hasn’t been affected, but that

Image: Foundry Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that malicious Google ads disguised as Mac cleaning tutorials are tricking users into installing harmful software through Terminal commands. These deceptive ads redirect to fake Apple support pages and can grant cybercriminals remote access to compromised Macs. Essential safety measures include inspecting URLs

Image: Foundry Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Apple acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai for approximately $2 billion, marking the company’s second-largest acquisition ever according to Macworld. Q.ai specializes in AI and machine learning for audio problems, with patented technology that reads facial micromovements to detect speech and emotions. The acquisition brings 100

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA This annotated image from NASA’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image depicts the AI-planned route and the actual route taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover during its 807-foot (246-meter) drive on Dec. 10, 2025, the 1,709th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The drive was the second of two

NASA’s Perseverance used its navigation cameras to capture its drive along the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2025. The navcam images were combined with rover data and placed into a 3D virtual environment, resulting in this reconstruction with virtual frames inserted about every 4 inches (0.1 meters) of drive progress.NASA/JPL-Caltech The team for the six-wheeled

NASA's Artemis II mission has its first opportunity to launch to the moon, Orion the Hunter takes center stage, and a planetary parade marches across the night sky. Feb: Artemis II launch window opens. Feb: Orion the Hunter ideal viewing Mid-Late Feb: Planetary Parade The Moon could have human visitors for the first time since

Four astronauts will soon travel beyond low Earth orbit and fly around the Moon on Artemis II, a mission that will test NASA’s systems and hardware for human exploration of deep space.  Since June 2023, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have been preparing for their lunar journey. The approximately

Monika Luabeya Katherine Schauer Jan 30, 2026 Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. Goldstone is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which operates three complexes around the globe

The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading The full Nautilus archive eBooks & Special Editions Ad-free reading Sex differences in the structure of the brain are well-documented, hotly debated, and ultimately, kind of fuzzy. In humans, at least, they tend to be subtle with plenty of overlap in the bell

Assistive technology is expensive, and many people with disabilities live on fixed incomes. Disabled assistive tech users also must contend with equipment that was often designed without any capacity to be repaired or modified. But assistive tech users ultimately need the functionality they need—a wheelchair that isn’t constantly needing to be charged, perhaps, or a