Laestadius has studied the rise of AI companions and their impact on mental health. These bots can text, call, send audio clips, and images—simulating friendship, emotional support and even romance.

New Delhi, PWD Minister Parvesh Verma on Friday said the Delhi government will construct a new flyover at a cost of ₹183 crore in North Delhi to decongest the area between Civil Lines and ...

Surreal and polished, Tais Sirote’s still lifes are often mistaken for CGI images. It makes sense – “I do often get inspired by CGI artists,” she says. Born in Argentina and raised in Tenerife, Tais ...

Researchers led by Matthew Clayton of Rutgers University analysed almost 900 US CEO changes between 1979 and 1995. Share price volatility increased when a CEO was succeeded smoothly by a company ...

The rift between Musk and Navarro, which has been slowly simmering in recent days, provides a window into possible infighting between the people closest to the president. On X, Musk went on to try ...

These robots are getting better. The line between virtual and real is getting thinner. The formula is being further finessed. Again, screens are everywhere and I kept having my eyes drawn to them.

Regarding the color correlation-based approach, JPEG AI’s preprocessing pipeline introduces statistical dependencies between the image’s color channels, creating a signature that can serve as a ...

Before I entered print journalism, I spent several years — about 20 — in radio news. I was blessed to work for four ABC-affiliated stations that carried Paul Harvey’s news and commentary. Though he ...

Magdalena Janecka of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who studies links between in utero exposures and child development but was not involved in the new research. A large “meta-analysis” like ...

The 2024-25 women's college basketball comes down to Sunday's national championship game between No. 2 seed UConn and No. 1 seed South Carolina. It's a rematch from the 2022 championship game ...