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Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

James O’Donnell • August 3, 2026 This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s

How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source

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Jacek Krywko • August 1, 2026 A fruit fly hunting a piece of rotting fruit or a mate navigates by smell, following plumes of odor. Out in the wild, turbulent air swirls these plumes into a chaotic, broken landscape—dense chemical filaments laced through long stretches of clean air. A fly trying to find the source

Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA

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John Timmer • July 31, 2026 When the history of our ancestry is written, the fact that we’ve interbred with some of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, will have a central role. And it will be tempting to write it as a very tidy story: Once we got genomes from these other groups,

Doctors took a look at man’s painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing

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Beth Mole • July 31, 2026 A 45-year-old construction worker went to the emergency department for his right shoulder, which was extremely swollen and becoming progressively more painful. Doctors took an X-ray to try to see what was causing the problem. But when the images came through, it was what they didn’t see that explained

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

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Ryan Whitwam • July 31, 2026 We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google’s Android developer verification system, which requires developers outside the Play Store to verify their identities, just like it does for devs publishing on its platform. The company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform’s open nature.

As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews

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Samuel Axon • August 1, 2026 Like any company, Reddit reports quarterly earnings, and its CEO, Steve Huffman, addresses investors during those reports. It’s not always about just sharing numbers, though: This quarter, Huffman took the opportunity to voice concerns and criticisms about Google’s AI Overviews feature, which automatically summarizes search results on most user

After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica

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Cyrus Farivar • August 1, 2026 A local judge has ruled that Waymo can no longer use its side-by-side charging facilities overnight in Santa Monica, California, as these may pose a “public nuisance.” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bradley S. Phillips granted this week the City of Santa Monica’s motion for a preliminary injunction in

Defcon’s new badge is a security key you can see inside

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Kim Zetter, wired.com • August 1, 2026 It’s been a longtime feature of the annual Defcon hacker conference that attendees come away not only with knowledge of new software vulnerabilities and hacking techniques but also an elaborately designed conference badge—often electronic masterpieces embedded with intricate puzzles, complex crypto challenges, hidden Easter eggs, and even the

Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission

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Stephen Clark • August 1, 2026 One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an attempted rescue of NASA’s $500 million Swift gamma-ray observatory suddenly spun out of control. It didn’t look good. The spacecraft, named Link, was rotating on multiple axes, rendering it unable to

Review: Yes, we’re still arguing about Nolan’s The Odyssey

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Jennifer Ouellette • August 1, 2026 Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since the first casting and design reveals, igniting afresh with each new trailer. The film has garnered plenty of well-deserved accolades (and earnings) since its release, and yet somehow the debates rage on between classicists and the

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source

Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA

Doctors took a look at man’s painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews

After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica

Defcon’s new badge is a security key you can see inside

Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission

Review: Yes, we’re still arguing about Nolan’s The Odyssey