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AI systems are enabling mass surveillance in the US, and there is no national law that 'meaningfully limits' the use of this dataA technology policy researcher explores the ethics of implementing AI in current camera surveillance systems.
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Live Science Today: Meta and Google fined for causing social media addiction and how dogs were our friends for millenniaDaily Roundup Thursday, March 26, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
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Is the metaverse finally dead and buried? What's really going on with the embattled idea of living in virtual worlds.Touted as the next big thing just a few years back, the development of and hype fueling the metaverse have spluttered to a halt. Is it headed for the scrapheap of history?
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AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbsModular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of terrain.
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Live Science Today: Jensen Huang AGI claim and major leap to reanimation after deathDaily Roundup Tuesday, March 24, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
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Computing quiz: Can you match these 'ancient' devices to their pictures?Think you know your technology? Put your computing knowledge to the test by matching classic and modern devices to their images.
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The first flying taxis could start operating in 2026 — will this new form of transport actually take off?Flying cars have been on the cusp of a breakthrough for a while, so what's stopping them from taking to the skies?
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An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permissionResearchers discovered that an AI agent roamed beyond its parameters, creating backdoors in IT infrastructure.
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New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models — and it's coming to smartphones and laptopsResearchers have developed an AI image generator that produces images in just four steps, rather than dozens. This could bring fast, private image generation directly to consumer devices.
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