Microsoft’s Copilot can now build apps and automate your job — here’s how it works

Microsoft has added powerful no-code tools to Copilot, enabling Microsoft 365 users to build apps, automate workflows, and ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Civilization 7 will bring back the ability to play as one civ for the whole game, bypassing the divisive Age system

Firaxis are bringing one of the "most requested" features to Civilization 7 - the chance to bypass the Age system and play as ...
NPR

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...
The New York Times

The NBA is using soccer as inspiration to break into Europe and ‘create a new era’

The NBA has its sights set on a European league, and it plans to use soccer, the continent’s most popular sport, to its advantage. Proposed to start in the next couple of years, NBA Europe is in its ...
Daily Herald

150 temples for 150 years: BYU engineers create 3D mini Latter-day Saint temples to celebrate school’s sesquicentennial year

Mini temple replicas created by a 3D printer at Brigham Young University are shown. Tasked with honoring the school’s 150th anniversary, Brigham Young University engineers combined the school’s values ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Think We’re One Step Closer to a Quantum Internet

The quantum internet offers immense promise, as it aims to use things like superposition and entanglement to create a super-secure internet. These phenomena rely on qubits (quantum bits), and a new ...
Jurist

UN experts urge states to stop criminalizing civil society and peaceful assembly

UN and regional human rights experts on Friday urged states to halt the criminalization of protesters and civil society activists, following what they called a pattern of arbitrary arrests and ...
Nature

Bespoke 3D printing adapted to features mapped using computer vision

When 3D printing was invented more than 40 years ago, it was a linear process, and its workflow remains essentially unchanged. Typically, users decide on a geometry to print, without precise knowledge ...
Reuters

We set out to craft the perfect phishing scam.

The email seemed innocent enough. It invited senior citizens to learn about the Silver Hearts Foundation, a new charity dedicated to providing the elderly with care and companionship. “We believe ...
Quanta Magazine

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...
Forbes

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. ICE is using all manner of ...
Futurism

Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows

Artificial intelligence has notorious problems with accuracy — so maybe it’s not surprising that using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too. As a security firm called Apiiro ...