Meet The Fossa — The Apex Predator That Baffled Scientists For Decades

The fossa is Madagascar’s ultimate misdirection. Here’s why this predator that looks familiar, acts unexpected and took decades for science to understand.

Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Follow-Up Show Has A 92% Rotten Tomatoes Score

Netflix’s best new show has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, and it just so happens to be a follow-up to Adolescence from the same creator.

Tesla reaches 10 billion FSD miles — is there’s a magical milestone for autonomy
Tesla reaches 10 billion FSD miles — is there’s a magical milestone for autonomy

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) fleet has crossed the 10 billion mile mark, according to the automaker’s updated safety page. It’s the threshold that CEO Elon Musk himself set earlier this year as the data milestone needed for “safe unsupervised…

NYT Connections Answers Explained For Monday, May 4 (#1,058)

Not sure what today’s NYT Connections answers are all about? Find out just what the different words in today’s grid mean and how they fit together.

In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate diagnoses than emergency room doctors

A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.

DJI invented the consumer drone. Now it cannot sell one in Washington or Beijing.
DJI invented the consumer drone. Now it cannot sell one in Washington or Beijing.

On the morning of 1 May, staff at DJI’s flagship retail store in Beijing’s Guomao business district began clearing drones from the shelves. The Neo, the Mavic, the Mini, every model that had made DJI the most dominant consumer electronics brand in its …

Skio never hired a sales team, never ran an ad, and just sold for $105 million cash to the company it was built to replace
Skio never hired a sales team, never ran an ad, and just sold for $105 million cash to the company it was built to replace

Kennan Frost dropped out of college, worked as an engineer at Pinterest, had a panic attack, quit, applied to Y Combinator in 2020, and by his own account failed his way through the programme until a pivot to subscription payments changed everything. F…