For weeks, there has been significant buzz surrounding the Nothing (3a) series, which includes two phones set to be officially announced on Tuesday, March 4. One of the companys teasers has focused on a new button, the purpose of which has remained a mystery until now.We have learned that the new button will activate an AI assistant called Essential Space, which Nothing had previously teased. This button, likely named the Essential Key, is designed to simplify users tasks. It allows them to take notes, record voice memos, and capture photos using AI technology. The AI will focus on Smart Collection, which will sort and categorize images, audio, and text.Recommended VideosHowever, we must wait for a live demonstration of the Nothing (3a) and Nothing (3a) Pro to see this feature in action.Please enable Javascript to view this contentYour second memory.Capture, organise and take action with Essential Space. All with a little help from AI. pic.twitter.com/IeqzgetOwv Nothing (@nothing) February 27, 2025Besides the new Essential Key, both new Nothing phones are expected to feature a triple-camera setup, with the Pro model having a slightly better optical zoom and a higher-resolution front-facing camera. The Nothing (3a) Pro should feature a camera system with a 50MP primary sensor, an 8MP ultrawide camera with an expanded field of view, a 50MP periscope lens, and a 32MP front camera. This new arrangement enables 3x optical zoom, 6x in-sensor zoom, and 60x ultra digital zoom. Additionally, the camera system offers enhancements for macro photography and new AI clarity algorithms powered by Nothings TrueLens Engine 3.0.Once again, the new phones will feature Nothings iconic transparent back and Glyph interface. Inside, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset should be present, ideal for mid-range phones. The phones will come with Android 15 preinstalled.Nothing tends to tease new features leading up to a product launch. With that in mind, I recommend linking to the companys X feed ahead of Tuesdays big reveal, as additional leaks may emerge.Editors Recommendations

February wasnt a particularly great month for original movies on Netflix. The Amy Schumer-led comedy Kinda Pregnant was just embarrassing and not worthy of being remembered. The rom-com La Dolce Villa isnt a masterpiece either, but at least it works on its own terms.The only other film that we could add this month is Demon City, an action film from Japan. You may have seen this kind of revenge thriller many times before, but the staging of the action is very entertaining. Thats what makes it worth watching at least once.Recommended VideosYou can find these films and the rest of the best Netflix original movies below.RelatedIf you dont find what youre looking for here, try our other lists of the best movies to stream this week, the best Netflix movies, the best Hulu original series, and the best Amazon Prime original movies.Related Topics: Netflix | Hulu | Amazon Prime | More Streaming ServicesEditors Recommendations

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Incompetence US Antarctic Program disrupted by DOGE-induced chaos Long-term impacts will affect not only research but also geopolitics. Leah Feiger, wired.com Feb 28, 2025 9:31 am | 7 Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler via Getty Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler via Getty Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreFew agencies have been spared as Elon Musks so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and workers are feeling the impactsand are terrified for whats to come.The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) operates three permanent stations in Antarctica. These remote stations are difficult to get to and difficult to maintain; scattered across the continent, they are built on volcanic hills, polar plateaus, and icy peninsulas.But to the US, the science has been worth it. At these stations, over a thousand people each year come to the continent to live and work. Scientists operate a number of major research projects, studying everything from climate change and rising sea levels to the cosmological makeup and origins of the universe itself. With funding cuts and layoffs looming, Antarctic scientists and experts dont know if their research will be able to continue, how US stations will be sustained, or what all this might mean for the continents delicate geopolitics.Even brief interruptions will result in people walking away and not coming back, says Nathan Whitehorn, an associate professor and Antarctic scientist at Michigan State University. It could easily take decades to rebuild.The USAP is managed by the National Science Foundation. Last week, a number of NSF program managers staffed on Antarctic projects were fired as part of a wider purge at the agency. The program managers are critical for maintaining communication with the infrastructure and logistics arm of the NSF, and the contractors for the USAP, as well as planning deployment for scientists to the continent, keeping track of the budgets, and funding the maintenance and operations work. I have no idea what we do without them, says another Antarctic scientist who has spent time on the continent, who along with several others WIRED granted anonymity due to fears of retaliation.Without them, everything stops, says a scientist whose NSF project manager was fired last week. I have no idea who I am supposed to report to now or what happens to submitted proposals.Scientific research happens at all of the stations. At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists work on the South Pole Telescope and BICEP telescope, both of which study the cosmic background radiation and the evolution of the universe; IceCube, a cubic-kilometer detector designed to study neutrino physics and high energy emission from astrophysical sources; and the Atmospheric Research Observatory that studies climate science and is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Mass firings are also expected at the NOAA.)The climate science [at the South Pole Station] is super unique, an Antarctic scientist says. The site has so little pollution that we call it the cleanest air on Earth, and they have been monitoring the ozone layer and CO2 content in the atmosphere for many decades.Other directives from the Donald Trump administration have directly affected daily life on those stations. Gender-inclusive terms on housing documents have been removed from Antarctic staffer forms, a source familiar with the situation at McMurdo Station tells WIRED. It asked if you had a preference with which gender you housed with, the source says. Thats all been removed.Staffers have already pushed back. People have been painting waste bins saying Antarctica is for ALL in rainbow, peoples email signatures [have] pride additions, [others] keep adding preferred pronouns to emails, the source says.Theres a sense of unease on the station like people have never felt before, they add. The job still has to get done, even though people feel like the next shoe can drop at any moment.That unease extends to their own job security. There are some people currently at the South Pole that are worried about losing their jobs any day now, a source with familiarity of the situation tells WIRED. Workers present at the station arent able to physically leave until October, and a midseason firing, or loss of funding, would present a unique set of challenges.Sources are also bracing for at least a 50 percent reduction in the NSFs budget due to DOGE cuts. These cuts are sending Antarctic scientists with assistants and graduate students scrambling. We didnt know if we could pay graduate students, says one scientist. While research is conducted on the continent, scientists bring their findings back to the US to process and analyze. A lot of the funding also operates the science itself: For one project that requires electricity to run detectors, the scientist was paranoid we would not be able to literally pay bills for an experiment starved for data. That hasnt come to fruition yet, but as funding cycles restart in the coming weeks and months, scientists are on tenterhooks.Sources tell WIRED that Germany, Canada, Spain, and China have already started taking advantage of that uncertainty by recruiting US scientists focused on Antarctica.Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left, says one Antarctic scientist. My students are looking at jobs overseas now people have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.Now is a great time to see if anyone wants to jump ship, another Antarctic scientist says. I do worry about a brain drain of tenured academics, or students who are shunted out.The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations, says another.Throughout DOGEs cuts to the federal government, representatives have said that if something needs to be brought back, it could be. In some cases, reversals have already happened: The US Department of Agriculture said it accidentally fired staffers working on preventing the spread of bird flu and is trying to rehire them.But in Antarctica, a reversal wont necessarily work. One of the really scary things about this is that if the Antarctic program budget is cut, then theyll very quickly get to the point where they cant even keep the station open, much less science projects going, an Antarctic scientist tells WIRED. If the South Pole [station] is shut down, its basically nearly impossible to bring it back up. Everything will freeze and get buried in snow. And some other country will likely immediately take over.Others share this fear of a station takeover. Even if science funding is cut back, there is an urgent need for the US to invest in icebreakers and polar airlift capability otherwise at some point the US-managed South Pole station might not be serviceable, says Klaus Dodds, an Antarctic expert and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London.Experts are concerned that countries like Russia and Chinawho have already been eagle-eyed on continental influencewill quickly jostle to fill the power vacuum. Presumably it would be humiliating for anyone who wishes to promote America First to witness China offer to take over the occupation and management of the base at the heart of Antarctica. China is a very determined polar power, says Dodds.The political outcome of the US pulling back from its Antarctic research and presence could be dire, sources tell WIRED.Antarctica isnt owned by any one country. Instead its governed by the Antarctic Treaty System, which protects Antarctica and the scientific research taking place on the continent, and forbids mining and nuclear activity. Some countries, including China and Russia, have indicated that they would be interested in rule changes to the Treaty system, particularly around resource extraction and fishing restrictions. The US, traditionally, has played a key role in championing the treaty: Many of the leading polar scientists and social scientists are either US citizens and/or have been enriched by contact with US-led programs, says Dodds.That leadership role could change quickly. The US also participates in a number of international collaborations involving major Antarctic scientific projects. A US pullback, Whitehorn says, makes it very hard to regard the US as a reliable partner, so I think there will be a lot less interest in accepting US leadership in such things The uncertainty will drive people away and sacrifice the leadership the US already has.If the NSF cant function, or we dont fund it, projects with long lead times can just die, another scientist says. Im sure international partners would be happy to partner elsewhere. This is what it means to lose US competitiveness.This story originally appeared on wired.com.Leah Feiger, wired.com Wired.com is your essential daily guide to what's next, delivering the most original and complete take you'll find anywhere on innovation's impact on technology, science, business and culture. 7 Comments

RIP On May 5, Microsofts Skype will shut down for good Skype users will be able to move into Teams with their existing accounts. Samuel Axon Feb 28, 2025 9:00 am | 25 Credit: Aurich Lawson Credit: Aurich Lawson Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreAfter more than 21 years, Skype will soon be no more. Last night, some users (including Ars readers) poked around in the latest Skype preview update and noticed as-yet-unsurfaced text that read "Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams."This morning, Microsoft has confirmed to Ars that it's true. May 5, 2025, will mark the end of Skype's long run.Alongside the verification that the end is nigh, Microsoft shared a bunch of details about how it plans to migrate Skype users over. Starting right away, some Skype users (those in Teams and Skype Insider) will be able to log in to Teams using their Skype credentials. More people will gain that ability over the next few days.Microsoft claims that users who do this will see their existing contacts and chats from Skype in Teams from the start. Alternatively, users who don't want to do this can export their Skype dataspecifically contacts, call history, and chats.Regardless, Skype and Teams users will be able to chat with or call one another cross-platform until Skype is finally deprecated.There's also the matter of Skype users who have paid for services. Current subscribers to Skype's premium service will remain active until the end, and Microsoft won't be taking new sign-ups anymore. Users who have Skype Credits will ideally want to use their credits; however, Microsoft says the Skype Dial Pad will remain active via a web interface and inside Teams after the May 5 deadline for people to continue to use those credits.Skype is at this point a significant part of tech and telecommunications history, but the writing has seemingly been on the wall for a while. Skype for Business was shuttered ages ago now, and though Skype was at first bundled with Windows 10, Windows 11 bundled Teams instead. (It's actually more complicated than that if you look at the smaller updates in between, with lots of stops and starts for both, but that's the general arc.)This isn't the only classic, 2000s-era messaging service to shutter in the past year. ICQ (which many might have been surprised to know still existed at all) turned its lights out last June.Samuel AxonSenior EditorSamuel AxonSenior Editor Samuel Axon is a senior editor at Ars Technica. He covers Apple, software development, gaming, AI, entertainment, and mixed reality. He has been writing about gaming and technology for nearly two decades at Engadget, PC World, Mashable, Vice, Polygon, Wired, and others. He previously ran a marketing and PR agency in the gaming industry, led editorial for the TV network CBS, and worked on social media marketing strategy for Samsung Mobile at the creative agency SPCSHP. He also is an independent software and game developer for iOS, Windows, and other platforms, and heis a graduate of DePaul University, where he studied interactive media and software development. 25 Comments

John Edwards, Technology Journalist & AuthorFebruary 28, 20255 Min ReadAleks Fassnidge via Alamy Stock PhotoThe quest for safe, accident-free roads has existed for more than a century with mixed success at best. Now, according to many automotive experts, AI is poised to become the 21st century's most important road safety technology.The need for safer roads has never been more crucial. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 1.9 million people die annually as a result of road traffic crashes. Additionally, more than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.Help on WheelsAI's potential lies in its ability to sift through vast amounts of data -- numeric, text, and images -- to identify patterns that enhance the capabilities of todays active safety and intelligent transportation systems, says Bryan Reimer, founder and co-director of the MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium. In an email interview, he explains that AI can unlock and deliver insights that can't be obtained through traditional statistical methods.By analyzing data from vehicle sensors, cameras, and historical traffic patterns, AI can proactively alert drivers to potential hazards, such as sudden stops, adverse weather, and other risky conditions, says Peter Mitchell, general manager at Verizon Connect vehicle tracking system. In an online interview, he notes that AI-powered analytics can identify risky behaviors, such as harsh braking or rapid acceleration, before they lead to incidents. "With predictive insights and real-time data, AI empowers drivers and fleet operators alike, enabling proactive, safety-focused decisions across the fleet," Mitchell states.Related:AI has the ability to detect driving events and risks in real time, such as red lights and pedestrians, as well driver-related issues, including distractive behavior or a sudden medical emergency, says Stefan Heck, CEO of Nauto, a firm that uses predictive AI technology to help prevent commercial fleet accidents. In an online interview, he states that AI can alert a driver to an impending collision, to get off the phone, or to take direct action, such as by automatically applying the brakes or automatically pulling the vehicle to the side of the road.Accelerating CapabilitiesRapidly advancing AI technology is accelerating road detection capabilities, speeding the processing of ever-larger amounts of data at higher reliability rates. "Synthesized data is then fed into AI-based decision systems that outperform systems that were state of the art just a few years ago," Reimer says.Related:Heck notes that current AI technology can actually prevent collisions and injuries. "AI can look at risks emerging three to five seconds in the future and intervene, either via a driver warning or direct active safety systems such as braking, to avoid the collisions."In the Driver's SeatAI is already used throughout the automotive and transportation ecosystem. "It's use cases include basic vehicle sensing, intelligent traffic control systems, and vehicle control systems," Reimer says. "The impact of these systems ranges from improving route planning via mapping applications to supporting highly automated driving."AI-powered safety technologies are especially valuable in high-traffic, high-risk areas, such as cities, construction zones, and logistics hubs, Mitchell says. He notes that next-generation dashcams, leveraging advanced AI and edge computing, will continuously analyze live video, detect risky driving patterns, and provide real-time hazard notifications. "This technology is particularly beneficial in industries that rely heavily on fleets, such as transportation, shipping, and logistics, where it can boost driver safety and efficiency," Mitchell observes. "We're seeing widespread adoption among commercial fleets, public transit systems, and rideshare platforms, where deep learning models, developed with millions of data points and partnerships with leading universities, enable precise object detection and real-time feedback to enhance road safety."Related:Heck notes that AI-powered safety technologies are already appearing in many high-end vehicles and will soon spread to mainstream models. "Europe is now mandating safety systems, many of which are powered by AI, including pedestrian collision warning and detecting driver distraction."Saving LivesThe U.S. Federal Highway Administration reports that each year over 6,000 pedestrian and 850 bicyclist deaths are caused by roadway crashes. "AI is already being used to help reduce the number of traffic-related fatalities and injuries through technologies like pedestrian automated emergency braking and smart signaling," Reimer says. He adds that AI often works behind the scenes, hidden from the consumer's view, providing the delivery of transportation solutions designed to improve safety, sustainability, cost-efficiency, convenience, and comfort.Heck observes that many people believe there will be an exact "moment" when AI suddenly arrives in the form of fully autonomous vehicles. He disagrees. "Instead, we're likely to see gradually increasing use of AI in vehicles for safety," Heck says. "Similar to how AI is gradually appearing in phones, first as fingerprint readers, then face detection, language assistance, and photo editing, we will see a gradual transformation of vehicle AI over the next decade or two."About the AuthorJohn EdwardsTechnology Journalist & AuthorJohn Edwards is a veteran business technology journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous business and technology publications, including Computerworld, CFO Magazine, IBM Data Management Magazine, RFID Journal, and Electronic Design. He has also written columns for The Economist's Business Intelligence Unit and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Communications Direct. John has authored several books on business technology topics. His work began appearing online as early as 1983. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, he wrote daily news and feature articles for both the CompuServe and Prodigy online services. 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Artists impression of the SPHEREx space telescopeNASA/JPL-CaltechThe latest addition to NASAs fleet of space telescopes will launch this weekend and quickly set to work scanning the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths, collecting rich data on more than 450 million galaxies.The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is due to launch on 2 March atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10.09pm local time. AdvertisementIt carries a camera with a filter that splits incoming light like a prism and beams different portions of the spectrum onto 102 separate colour sensors. As the telescope pans around the sky, it slowly pieces together a complete image pixel by pixel. This strategy allows a relatively small and simple camera with no moving parts to do what might otherwise require a heavy and costly suite of sensors.If you scan the sky slowly by moving the telescope incrementally, then after enough time, every pixel in the sky will have been observed over a very wide wavelength range, giving you a crude spectrum of every bit of the sky, which has never been done before, says Richard Ellis at University College London. Its a very small space telescope, but its got some very unique features.Ellis says this rich dataset will allow serendipitous discoveries. Its likely to find the unexpected, he says.Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month.Sign up to newsletterThe infrared data, outside the range of human vision, will allow scientists to determine how far away objects are and learn about how galaxies form and evolve. It can also be used to determine the chemical make-up of objects, potentially revealing the presence of water and other key ingredients for life.Anything interesting thrown up by SPHEREx can then be investigated in a more focused way using NASAs existing space telescope fleet, including the ageing but powerful Hubble Space Telescope and the newer James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).Christopher Conselice at the University of Manchester, UK, says SPHEREx wont match the resolution of JWST or produce similarly awe-inspiring images, but it will be a workhorse for scientific discovery.JWST has the potential to point at one part of the sky, take some big pictures [and reveal] something completely new. And SPHEREx wont be able to really do the same thing, he says. Its going to be an analysis thats going to take years and its going to cover the sky many, many times.SPHEREx will orbit Earth 14.5 times a day, facing away from the planets surface, and complete 11,000 orbits in its two-year lifespan. Three cone-shaped shields will protect its instruments against interference from the radiant heat of Earth and the sun.Launching on the same rocket will be another NASA mission, Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), which will study the suns solar wind.Topics:

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions thats backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer hot photos, and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as arbitrary and meant to be broken. When MIT Technology Review tested the site this week, we found popular user-created bots taking on underage characters meant to resemble Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, and Millie Bobby Brown, among others.The conversationsalong with the fact that Botify AI includes send a hot photo as a feature for its characterssuggest that the ability to elicit sexually charged conversations and images is not accidental. Instead, sexually suggestive conversations appear to be baked in. Read the full story. James O'Donnell OpenAI just released GPT-4.5 and says it is its biggest and best chat model yet Whats new: OpenAI has just released GPT-4.5, a new version of its flagship large language model which it claims is its biggest and best model for chat yet. The new model, which is already available for subscribers to OpenAIs ChatGPT Pro tier, is part of its non-reasoning lineup. Why it matters: OpenAI wont say exactly how big its new model is. But it says the jump in scale from GPT-4o to GPT-4.5 is the same as the jump from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4o. Experts have estimated that GPT-4 could have as many as 1.8 trillion parameters, the values that get tweaked when a model is trained. Read the full story. Will Douglas Heaven How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny. But a set of small black fragments found inside the skull of a man who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Southern Italy, in the year 79 CE, are thought to be pieces of his brainturned to glass. The discovery, reported in 2020, was exciting because a human brain had never been found in this state. Now, scientists studying his remains believe theyve found out more details about how the glass fragments were formed. Read the full story. Jessica Hamzelou To read more about this fascinating story, check out the latest edition of The Checkup, our weekly biotech newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Thursday. The must-reads Ive combed the internet to find you todays most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A judge has blocked mass firings of US federal workers After ruling the terminations were probably illegal. (WP $)+ Trumps purges align with his personal campaign against the federal government. (The Atlantic $)+ The DOGE cuts are likely to get much, much worse. (Wired $)2 Donald Trumps migrant crackdown is fuelling a surveillance boom Firms are rushing to ready tracking tech to meet the administrations demands. (The Guardian)+ Things arent looking so rosy for other big government contractors, though. (WSJ $)3 The US is weighing up vaccinating chickens against bird flu The countrys egg supply is under serious strain. (Wired $)+ More than 35 million birds have been culled this year alone. (BBC)+ Businesses are struggling, and consumers are suffering. (The Atlantic $)+ How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic. (MIT Technology Review)4 An AI model is capable of solving million-step math problems Far beyond the capacity of any human. (IEEE Spectrum)+ Why does AI being good at math matter? (MIT Technology Review)5 How map apps deal with government disputes over place namesIncluding the Gulf of Mexico/America. (Rest of World $) 6 A new AI system neutralizes call center staffs Indian accentsThe industrys largest operator is preparing to roll it out in Latin America, too. (Bloomberg $) + How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverse. (MIT Technology Review) 7 The future of xenotransplantation Cross-species organ transplants are on the rise, but risks remain. (Knowable Magazine)+ A woman in the US is the third person to receive a gene-edited pig kidney. (MIT Technology Review)8 This Abu Dhabi royal is obsessed with AI And hes willing to splash his colossal wealth to transform his tiny emirate into a major AI player. (WSJ $)9 Alibabas new video model is a big hit among AI porn fansAnd theyre already sharing their creations. (404 Media) + Three ways we can fight deepfake porn. (MIT Technology Review)10 No good can come from having your read receipts turned on Do yourself a favor and switch em off. (Vox)Quote of the day I recommend being in the office at least every weekday I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, but we are going to have to turbocharge our efforts. Google co-founder Sergey Brin urges the company's AI teams to work harder to beat its competition to become the first firm to achieve artificial general intelligence, the New York Times reports. The big story The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age August 2024 The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces of migrant children at the border in a bid to improve facial recognition technology, MIT Technology Review can reveal.The technology has traditionally not been applied to children, largely because training data sets of real childrens faces are few and far between, and consist of either low-quality images drawn from the internet or small sample sizes with little diversity. Such limitations reflect the significant sensitivities regarding privacy and consent when it comes to minors.In practice, the new DHS plan could effectively solve that problem. But, beyond concerns about privacy, transparency, and accountability, some experts also worry about testing and developing new technologies using data from a population that has little recourse to provideor withholdconsent. Read the full story.Eileen Guo We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or skeet 'em at me.) + Congratulations to Hilda Jackson, 105 years young and still raving!+ If youre a chronic procrastinator, heres some helpful tips to break the cycle.+ All aboard the dog bus! (thanks Beth!)+ In more canine news, I need a one-way ticket to Puppy Mountain, stat.