The Detroit automaker wants your next vehicle to be a personal assistant, a best friend, and an autonomous errand-runner. Americans spent about 95 billion hours behind the wheel last year, traveling something like 2.76 trillion miles . On Wednesday, General Motors executives are outlining the future of automotive at the company's annual GM Forward event in New York City, and they say their goal isn't to reduce that number. But GM does want to make car time better. Or, as Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson put it in an interview with WIRED, "make it more productive, make it more relaxing, make it more engaging. We'd like to make your vehicle a more central, more useful part of your life than it has been historically."

Like scientists, AI models don't yet have the data to properly decode it. Researchers have only scratched the surface of the messy, three dimensional knots that influence how our genomes function.Courtesy of Quanta The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of life. They've read and studied the information stored in the DNA found in the cells of living organisms, known as their genomes, and claimed that this genetic database must be some kind of blueprint, code script, or computer. But if DNA really does harbor some greater secret about how life works, biologists have yet to find it. In fact, the human genome is less a script than a puzzle that gets harder the closer they look. Knowing the entire sequence--the order of all 3 billion or so of our DNA's chemical building blocks, nearly fully deduced by the international Human Genome Project between 1990 and 2003--hasn't helped much. That investigation showed that barely 2 percent of the human genome consists of actual genes, the information-coding sequences of DNA.

I got an early glimpse of Apple's biggest push into the smart home in years. Apple has lagged in the smart home race, which Amazon and Google have dominated for a decade with Alexa and Google Assistant (now Gemini), respectively. But after finally revamping Siri AI this year and turning the butt-of-the-joke voice assistant into a more competitive companion --paired with a more mature Matter-supported ecosystem of smart home gadgets--Apple now has the brains to power the home system it has always envisioned. That starts with three new devices: the Apple HomeView, the company's first smart display; the HomePod Mini 2 smart speaker; and the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K. Apple announced the products at a media-only event in New York City, and it also revealed a slew of new smart-home gadgets made in collaboration with LG and Schneider Electric, including a video doorbell, thermostats, and security cameras .

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Never pay full price for a TV. Amazon Prime Day is here, and I've found the best Prime Day TV deals that can make upgrading your entertainment setup a little less daunting. After all, you should never buy a TV at full price, and sale events like Prime Day make it so you can always find a good TV deal, even if some of them are exclusive for Prime Members. With NFL season in full swing and new TV shows like,, and releasing, now might be a good time to upgrade. I've covered all sorts of AV and TV gear, including the best art TVs, best RGB TVs, best home theater projectors, best soundbars, and more--I've got a good handle on which TV deals are worth a look and which you should skip.

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