The Dirty Secret Behind China's Rising Emission Levels: Pollution from State-Run Companies

"The world's top five polluters were responsible for 60% of global emissions in 2019," reports Bloomberg — but China alone &qu...

How Misinformation - and one Facebook Group - Threatened a Federal Investment in Montana

The New York Times describes a six-year grass roots effort to fund historic preservation and natural resource conservation in Montana — and ...

Mixed AR Headset Lynx R1 Gets Its First Third-Party Review

Long-time Slashdot reader TuringTest writes: The mixed AR/VR standalone headset Lynx R1, which is undergoing an already-funded Kickstarter c...

Xpeng Unveils a Flying Car That Also Drives on Roads - Plus a Bionic Horse

"HT Aero, an affiliate of Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng Inc., launched a new flying car on Sunday that it says can also drive on...

Palantir's Peter Thiel Thinks People Should Be More Concerned About 'Surveillance AI'

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel "believes that people should be more worried about 'surveillance AI' rather than artificial genera...

Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla’s decision to test its “Full Self Driving” advanced driver assistance software with untrain...

US Air Force Announces Plans for a Micro Nuclear Reactor in Alaska

This week the U.S. Air Force announced that it's chosen Alaska's Eielson Air Force Base as the site for its first "micro" ...