7 Best Valentine’s Day Sex Toy Deals: Suction Toys, Vibrators, and Dildos

[ad_1] Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, but so is its ancient predecessor, Lupercalia! While we don’t celebrate this holiday anymore by running naked through the streets, there’s no reason you can’t observe... Read more »

A chatbot helped more people access mental-health services

[ad_1] The chatbot’s creators, from the AI company Limbic, set out to investigate whether AI could lower the barrier to care by helping patients access help more quickly and efficiently. A new... Read more »

The Download: solar geoengineering’s rocky road, and Apple’s driverless ambitions

[ad_1] —David W. Keith, founding faculty director of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative at the University of Chicago, and Wake Smith, a lecturer at the Yale School of Environment and a research... Read more »

Where to Stream 2024’s Best Picture Oscar Nominees

[ad_1] No matter which movie snatches Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, “Barbenheimer” will still go down as the winner. Last summer’s box office face-off between Christopher Nolan’s historical drama about a... Read more »

2054, Part I: Death of a President

[ad_1] “But do you understand what you did wrong?” She struggled to look him directly in the eye. Her gaze instead fell over his shoulder, where the news was streaming live on... Read more »

Solar geoengineering could start soon if it starts small

[ad_1] Subscale deployment How might subscale deployment be accomplished? Most stratospheric scientific studies of aerosol injection assume the operative material is sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas, which is 50% sulfur by mass. Another... Read more »

How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

[ad_1] The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Driverless cars and planes are no longer the stuff of the future. In the city of San Francisco alone, two taxi... Read more »

The Apple Vision Pro’s Killer App Is … Kitchen Timers

[ad_1] It’s why you may see breathless takes about how a Vision Pro lets you pull up a “4K screen” without any reference to how big it is (the actual resolution of... Read more »

The US Has Big Plans for Wind Energy—but an Obscure 1920s Law Is Getting in the Way

[ad_1] The reason for the Jones Act’s longevity, says Colin Grabow, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is that while it tends to benefit only a few... Read more »

Snap Recalls Its Pixy Flying Selfie Camera Because of Overheating Batteries

[ad_1] Hey, remember when Snap made a drone that flew over your head and shot an aerial selfie? The Pixy drone was more or less an experiment, in line with Spectacles and... Read more »