Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?

Autonomous vehicle designers have to worry about riders getting frisky in public.
Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer

“This is a fight I likely won’t win. We have said goodbye before. But remember, family is forever.”
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028

Prices for memory sold for 2027 “are much higher than 2026 prices.”
Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras

Floridians alarmed by 14 mysterious Flock cameras; 11 have no clear owner.
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry

The Canada Rocket Company gets serious about medium-lift launch.
The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at…
An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan

A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what …
How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid

If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to get large energy storage projects on the grid. Faced with those obst…
Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life

Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact.