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I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple's revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, I've forgotten Siri AI even exists. When I first tested the developer beta of Apple's Siri AI by taking it as my tour guide around San Francisco, I was convinced the overhauled smartphone assistant would be an " everything tool " on the iPhone. The answers felt reliable enough and more helpful than previous versions of Siri. Also, the chatbot-style app for Siri felt very sleek, very Apple-y. Over the next month, I kept experimenting with the Siri AI in the iOS 27 beta .

The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control. Small robots and drones have increasingly been used to help respond to disasters, reaching locations that are too hard or too dangerous to send humans, such as collapsed buildings . Many of these efforts have been focused on search and rescue. But new research shows how bugs--with their ability to crawl through even narrower gaps in rubbled-- outfitted with electrodes could be used as the next generation of first responders. A research team from the University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have developed the "Paraborg" to not only help with searching for victims, but also administer first aid.

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Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies--the only problem is a lack of evidence. Welcome to the first edition of Power Play! From now until the midterms, senior writer Molly Taft will be sharing their thoughts every Sunday on this political season's hottest issue: data centers. We welcome reader comments, and will be answering questions from the comments section in future editions. Be sure to catch WIRED's first livestream on data centers this Thursday, September 10, featuring Molly, senior politics correspondent Hugo Lowell, and senior business writer Max Zeff!

Things to Do in L.A. Darian Orduno holds her baby, Gael, as her husband, Antonio, looks on during a town hall meeting at the Episcopal Church of the Savior in Hanford, Calif., which was convened in opposition to a possible data center proposal at the county fairgrounds. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Data centers are becoming the political flash point of the midterms as candidates race to respond to tanking public opinion.

New details about a recent security breech by an OpenAI chatbot are alarming. Is it time to hit pause and make sure AI is safe, before it becomes too powerful, and sneaky, to stop?

A man looks on as smoke rises over a warehouse that was hit by a Russian drone strike in Kyiv region on Aug. 27. As a resident of Boryspil, a satellite town of Kyiv, Kostyantyn Kuts has grown accustomed to regular night-time air raids. This past week has been different. Since late August, Russia has ramped up the frequency of its air assaults on the Ukrainian capital using jet-powered drones that are harder to intercept. With barrages now around the clock rather than mostly at night, life has once again been turned upside down for the city's more than 3 million inhabitants. For Kuts, a 39-year-old neurologist who lives with his wife and two children in the suburb of Boryspil, travel from his home on the left bank of the Dnipro River to work on the right bank has become impossibly unpredictable as a result of transport disruptions.

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