Hobby Town The city of Shizuoka is a modeling mecca. Home to 10 hobby manufacturers—Tamiya, Bandai, Aoshima, and Hasegawa, to name a few—it is where more than 80% of Japan’s plastic model ...

Bandai has been making Gundam plastic models, or Gunpla, since the 1980s. Gunplas are model kits of mecha from the long-running Gundam anime series. They are shipped in a grid of plastic runners ...

Hobbyists commonly feed this type of filament into commercial desktop 3D printers, which heat the plastic and extrude ... systems used in some newer printer models. On Bluesky, Strosnider ...

The new benchmark, called Elephant, makes it easier to spot when AI models are being overly sycophantic—but there’s no current fix. Back in April, OpenAI announced it was rolling back an ...

A powerful bacterial superbug is making headlines for its unique and alarming ability to feed on plastic found in medical devices. Researchers at Brunel University of London have discovered that ...

The hold-up? The packaging. Most deodorants on the market come in hard plastic cases with many tiny components, each of which is made of a different type of plastic, and most of which are not ...

Kochi: If Kerala produced 30,798 tonnes of black pepper — its mainstay of spice trade with Europe and the Arab world in olden days — the state generated a whopping 71,000 tonnes of plastic in ...

OpenAI’s most advanced AI models are showing a disturbing new behavior: they are refusing to obey direct human commands to shut down, actively sabotaging the very mechanisms designed to turn ...

Several artificial intelligence models ignored and actively sabotaged shutdown scripts during controlled tests, even when explicitly instructed to allow the action, Palisade Research claims.

New legislation is going to be introduced in Pennsylvania that is aimed at banning single-use plastic bags throughout the state. Single-use plastic bags have already been banned in Pittsburgh and ...

In 2010, eight million tons of plastic trash ended up in the ocean from coastal countries—far more than the total that has been measured floating on the surface in the ocean's "garbage patches." ...

Windsurf, the popular vibe-coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, says Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet ...