I went to EssilorLuxottica's Paris facilities to learn how the digital age is reshaping eyes and redefining eyewear. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Restaurants are surprisingly good age tests. When the menu lands, do you squint at the tiny fonts, tilt the page toward some inadequate candle, or blast it with your phone flashlight just to read it? Do you ask a friend to tell you the options because you refuse to wear the readers you know, in your heart, you probably need? And when did restaurants get so loud?

Lamborghini's new hybrid supercar includes a three-level drift mode and three axial flux motors The supercar pulls out the stops with a screaming 10,000 revolutions per minute at the redline. With a top speed of 213 miles per hour and a 10,000 rpm redline, the Lamborghini Temerario is a wild machine. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Lamborghini's legacy gas-only machines have been unapologetically loud, brash, and in your face with sonorous symphonies conducted by fuel-guzzling V12 and V10 engines. Today, the brand is in its electrification age, with three plug-in hybrids: the Urus SE SUV, the top-tier Revuelto, and the newest Raging Bull, the Temerario.

The latest Epstein Files release appears to contain hundreds of photographs along with court records and other materials. Over the weekend, the Justice Department released three new data sets comprising files related to Jeffrey Epstein . The DOJ had previously released nearly 4,000 documents prior to the Friday midnight deadline required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act . As with Friday's release, the new tranche appears to contain hundreds of photographs, along with various court records pertaining to Epstein. There are around 1,200 pages in all, including images WIRED is currently going through the materials and will update with more detail.

The critically endangered chicks, Oscar and Duffy, were born at a New Jersey aquarium. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. An aquarium in New Jersey welcomed two new residents, just in time for the holidays. On December 20, staff at Adventure Aquarium in Camden revealed the recent births of Duffy and Oscar, a pair of African penguins () and some much needed good news in light of ongoing conservation concerns . "These milestones are incredibly important for the critically endangered African penguin population, and we couldn't be more proud to play a role in their future," the aquarium just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania wrote in a social media post .

Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region's maritime infrastructure. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out systematic attacks on the region. Last week, he warned that the focus of the war may have shifted towards Odesa. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the repeated attacks were an attempt by Moscow to block Ukraine's access to maritime logistics. Earlier in December, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to sever Ukraine's access to the sea as retaliation for drone attacks on tankers of Russia's shadow fleet in the Black Sea.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The next generation of the wall-hugging, truly wireless TV won't rely on the cloud, while the new Displace Hub will bring some of its earlier tech to any TV. One of the drawbacks to most AI implementations is that much of the processing is performed in the cloud, which usually means uploading your personal information to servers you have no control over. That raises a host of privacy concerns for many, including yours truly. Is it worse than using the typical online search engine?

The two images of Westerlund 2 show just how far the technology has come. Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In 2015, NASA celebrated the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th year in orbit by releasing one of its most stunning images to date--a colorful star cluster in the constellation Carina known as Westerlund 2 . However, a lot can change in a decade.

New Scientist changed the UK's freedom of information laws in 2025 By requesting copies of the then-UK technology secretary's ChatGPT logs, New Scientist set a precedent for how freedom of information laws apply to chatbot interactions, helping to hold governments to account Our successful request for Peter Kyle's ChatGPT logs stunned observers When I fired off an email at the start of 2025, I hadn't intended to set a legal precedent for how the UK government handles its interactions with AI chatbots, but that is exactly what happened. It all began in January when I read an interview with the then-UK tech secretary Peter Kyle in . Trying to suggest he used first-hand the technology his department was set up to regulate, Kyle said that he would often have conversations with ChatGPT. AI may blunt our thinking skills - here's what you can do about it That got me wondering: could I obtain his chat history? Freedom of information (FOI) laws are often deployed to obtain emails and other documents produced by public bodies, but past precedent has suggested that some private data - such as search queries - aren't eligible for release in this way. I was interested to see which way the chatbot conversations would be categorised.

It had previously been announced as Game of the Year. The Indie Game Awards has stripped of two major awards, including Game of the Year and Debut Game. This is due to developer Sandfall Interactive's use of generative AI, . This looks to be fairly cut and dry. The awards ceremony that any game that uses generative AI in the development process would be strictly ineligible for nominations. It was recently revealed that Sandfall while making .

OpenAI's Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior. OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first half of 2025 as it did during a similar time period in 2024, according to a recent update from the company. The NCMEC's CyberTipline is a Congressionally authorized clearinghouse for reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other forms of child exploitation. Companies are required by law to report apparent child exploitation to the CyberTipline. When a company sends a report, NCMEC reviews it and then forwards it to the appropriate law enforcement agency for investigation.