Andrea Gawrylewski

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In January, Chinese artificial-intelligence start-up DeepSeek blew up the dam. The company released a chatbot that rivals industry leaders such as OpenAI’s Chat-GPT o1 and Anthropic’s Claude, and its code is open source and free—an intelligence untethered. No more gatekeeping by tech behemoths; now anyone with an idea and an Internet connection can summon machine intelligence to solve problems, write computer code or dream up something entirely new. The result?

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

4 hours agoDon't Buy the New iPad AirApple's latest iPad Air is great. Don't buy it. When Tim Cook posted "There's something in the AIR" on X this week, it seemed to imply the company was …7 hours agoApple unveils new iPad Air, here’s what you need to knowThere’s something in the air today, and it turns out it’s a new iPad Air. Apple has officially unveiled an updated iPad Air powered by the M3 chip. There’s also a new Magic Keyboard to go along with it and an updated version of the base iPad Air.

Nov 27, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

Paul Saladino is an Internet-famous doctor with 2.4 million followers on Instagram. His videos promote so-called animal-based diets—meat, organs, raw dairy, some fruit and zero vegetables. Vegetables, he says, are full of toxins that humans should not consume. In other corners of the platform, hundreds of thousands of people follow influencers who say plant-based diets or juice regimens can cure cancer. Social media is full of health-related misinformation masquerading as fact.

Sep 3, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In 2015 a woman posted a poorly exposed photograph of a striped dress on Tumblr. Immediately there was disagreement that spread across the Internet: some saw the dress as blue and black, others as white and gold. Remarkably, once you see the dress as either blue/black or white/gold, it may be very hard to change camps.

May 30, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

All the Darkness We Cannot SeeThe cosmos is brimming with dark energy and other mysterious phenomenaHumans have always looked to the stars. Those pinpricks of light in the vast blackness spark curiosity, wonder and awe. Our newest orbiting observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021 and is sending back jaw-­dropping images of visible and infrared light from galaxies, star-nursery nebulas and supermassive stars.