People who interact with chatbots for emotional support or other personal reasons are likelier to report symptoms of depression or anxiety, a new study finds. The researchers from Mass General Brigham ...

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

Love it or hate it, AI is increasingly becoming integral to the way we work. So, like a lot of employees, you’ve started using it for your assignments. That’s great – unless you’re not clear on what ...

/gpfs1 is the main pool of storage used by the VACC. We provide daily backups, copied to a data recovery location, and are generally able to retain the last 7 days, 4 weeks of weekly backups, and 3 ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

OpenAI released a new study about how people are using ChatGPT, based on more than one million messages sent to the chatbot. OpenAI researchers released a report on ChatGPT use on Monday, the largest ...

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A majority (68%) of small businesses have integrated AI into their daily operations, with 74% of them reporting an increase in productivity. Generative AI simplifies content creation while agentic AI ...

For those who hate repeatedly entering usernames and passwords, some of the biggest online companies are pushing an alternative: passkeys. Passkeys work by using a pair of unique mathematical values—a ...