With clear skies tonight, you’ll be able to pick out a few details on the Moon’s surface. But what exactly are you looking at? With the help of NASA’s Daily Moon Guide, we have the answers. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Friday, June 5, the Moon phase is Waning Gibbous. Tonight, 79% of…
For six years, I have found myself randomly wondering, “Is this the year Phoebe Bridgers finally puts out a new album?” The answer has always been a resounding “no.” That changed on May 8, when mysterious flyers appeared in Roswell, New Mexico, announcing a show that same day at the Liberty, a venue that holds…
Have you ever had the desire to see Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey square off over a moderately suspenseful card game? If so, you are in luck. Silicon Valley’s leaders are rushing to embrace the power of media for the purposes of marketing and political capital. Now, in a sign of the times, Founders Fund,…
AI-enabled toys are moving into homes and classrooms faster than privacy rules, safety testing, and child development research can keep up with. Researchers and child-safety groups warn that generative AI companions can collect children’s data, produce unsafe answers, and encourage emotional attachment. For parents, schools, and technology procurement teams, the concern is not just what…
Perhaps Kayla Sims (@lilsimsie) was destined to play The Sims, Electronic Arts’ hit life simulation franchise. Yes, that’s her real name. But when she uploaded her very first YouTube video in 2015, a playthrough of The Sims 4‘s Get Together expansion, she probably never expected the game to change her life the way it did….
A case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday night. It marks the first detected breach of the US-Mexico border by the ravenous flesh-eating flies, which have been making their way up through Central America for the past several years. In a social media post…
Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch that the company’s $65 billion fundraise at a $965 billion valuation, announced last week, was greatly oversubscribed. Now, with that private demand still strong, Anthropic has revealed…
The old success metrics no longer survive contact with reality. There is a particular kind of clarity that comes from walking out of three days of analyst sessions and realizing that the conference didn’t change your mind — it confirmed something you’d been reluctant to say out loud. I was at the Gartner Security &…
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is soaring on Broadway. As we head into the 79th annual Tony Awards, the show boasts 12 nominations, including Best Musical. But the journey to critical acclaim and packed houses roaring with excitement was far from guaranteed when director and co-lighting designer Michael Arden, who is nominated in both…
Zoë Schiffer: Deviants and freaks, the new name of our podcast. And this is, I mean, just going back to red teaming, that’s work that a trust and safety team typically does. And those teams— Leah Feiger: We don’t have those anymore. Zoë Schiffer: They’re not as big as they used to be. There’s just…
