Merriam-Webster adds meme coin, vibe coding, and uncanny valley to its online dictionary.

Those are just three of 1,400 new words added to the more comprehensive online version of Merriam-Webster’s linguistic repository. Other additions include Mandela Effect, AGI, letterboxing, ...

Paris prosecutors are investigating smart glasses-enabled sexual harassment.

They’ve opened “at least one criminal probe” following complaints about the glasses being used to film women on the street in public without their consent, Reuters reports. France’s data protection ...

Another Clicks Communicator update.

Clicks is offering another updated look at the much-awaited Communicator and a couple of pleasant surprises for those who ...

Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that

Fortunately, new tools are being developed to counter this threat. A new software called the Transient Artifact and Continuous Learning System (TACLS) uses satellites and machine learning to try to ...

Sylvan Esso are back on Spotify after an “unsustainable” year off.

The band’s Amelia Meath says they’re back “to continue to employ everyone that we employ,” after what’s been an “incredibly hard” year off Spotify, but implored fans to listen on other platforms ...

The winners of Nikon’s microscopic video competition.

The annual Small World in Motion Competition has yielded another five bangers. The winning entry uses a 100X magnification to capture the abnormal airway cilia inside a child with a genetic disorder ...

Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city

The Alphabet-owned company says it will launch a commercial robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028. is transportation editor ...

Virtual Desktop dev says he’ll ‘try to bring the app’ to Steam Frame.

The Steam Frame and Meta Quest headsets can natively beam your Windows monitors into a headset — but some still prefer Virtual Desktop, the app that pioneered the idea in 2016 before getting ...

Valve has open-sourced Lepton, its tool to bring Android games to Steam.

Lepton is intended to help game developers bring their VR Android games to the Steam Frame,” Valve writes. “Lepton is not ...

A Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘theft of unprecedented proportions.’

In court documents unredacted Thursday, lawyers for the NYT in its copyright infringement case against Microsoft and OpenAI ...

Google’s new emoji site is great.

On the Noto Emoji site, you can search for emoji, download 2D and 3D files of the (open source) emoji in different formats, and even see the original proposals that helped things get turned into emoji ...

Anthropic proposes three rules for measuring AI progress.

The extent to which AI is building the next version of itself, as opposed to being built by humans > Our ability to oversee and intervene in actions that AI agents take on Anthropic’s systems > The ...