Most elements of a major NASA event this week that laid out spaceflight plans for the coming decade were well received: a Moon base, a focus on less talk and more action, and working with… Read more: No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations

Memory and storage shortages and price hikes that started hitting PC components late last year have steadily rippled outward across all kinds of consumer tech—some products have disappeared, gone out of stock, or been delayed, and others have undergone… Read more: Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150

Iran-linked hackers successfully broke into FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email, the Department of Justice confirmed to Reuters on Friday. Reuters could not authenticate the leaked emails themselves but noted that the Gmail address matched… Read more: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked

Bissell cut through AI hype by building five real workflows in just two days, turning skepticism into measurable results across customer service and analytics. The post Inside Bissell’s 48-Hour AI Sprint That Changed How It… Read more: Inside Bissell’s 48-Hour AI Sprint That Changed How It Uses Data

The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback Good news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how… Read more: At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland

‘Create an image of what rewilding in England looks like’, according to ChatGPT. Image generated by The Conversation using ChatGPT., CC BY-SA Humans have always imagined the natural world. From Ice Age cave paintings to… Read more: AI makes rewilding look tame – and misses its messy reality

The AI industry and its legions of AI bros are hellbent on force-feeding everyone AI slop. Most of us encounter these surreal monstrosities as an assault on our eyeballs: weird TikToks of humanoid animals living… Read more: A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning

After more than a decade of flirting with the idea, Apple has finally discontinued the Mac Pro tower. The company confirmed to 9to5Mac that the latest Mac Pro iteration—an M2 Ultra model first released in… Read more: Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting stories from Twitter, the metaverse, and… Read more: Slopaganda and Sora, lol

I’ve been in the data game long enough to see plenty of AI projects crash and burn.  I started my career building data warehouses for telcos and banks, then moved into machine learning consulting, where… Read more: Fighting financial crime with hybrid AI

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from March 23–27. The post AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Apple may open Siri to rival AI models like Gemini and Claude in iOS 27, signaling a shift toward a more flexible, app-based AI ecosystem. The post iPhone’s Next Upgrade: Siri Could Soon Run on… Read more: iPhone’s Next Upgrade: Siri Could Soon Run on Gemini, Claude, and More

Welcome to Edition 8.35 of the Rocket Report! The headlines this week are again dominated by the big changes afoot in NASA’s exploration program, with the announcement of a Moon base and a nuclear-powered rocket… Read more: Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test

For about four years now, AMD has offered special “X3D” variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 cache attached, an addition that disproportionately benefits games. AMD calls this “3D V-Cache”… Read more: AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use. In a joint letter sent to… Read more: Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage

RV Tech, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and Rivian, has completed a successful winter test program, it said this morning. The partnership was created in 2024 when VW Group announced it would invest $5.8… Read more: Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture

An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online. The video is the work of Iran-based propagandists called the “Explosive News Team” and is just the… Read more: Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War

As companies continue to burn through billions of dollars by running massively resource-hungry AI models — and only passing on a fraction of the costs to consumers and enterprise clients — the AI race shows… Read more: Anthropic Just Leaked Upcoming Model With “Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks” in the Most Ironic Way Possible

As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.

As fears over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continue to grow, researchers are trying to get a better sense of which occupations will be most — and least — affected. Tech leaders continue to cite AI… Read more: If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds

Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits Wikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous… Read more: Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia

Expansion of BigID’s DAG and DAM capabilities brings identity controls, least-privilege enforcement, and real-time activity monitoring to non-human AI entities BigID today announced the expansion of its Data Access Governance (DAG) capabilities to cover AI… Read more: BigID Extends Data Access Governance to AI Agents

Scientists have uncovered a hidden reason why cancer treatments don’t work equally well for everyone. Certain drugs can become trapped inside lysosomes within tumor cells, forming slow-release reservoirs that create uneven drug distribution. This means… Read more: Scientists discover why cancer drugs don’t work for everyone

Deep learning has mastered many narrow domains. Image recognition works. Language understanding works. But training agents that can actually conduct research, that can search through vast information repositories, extract evidence, and synthesize answers, remains unsolved.… Read more: Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline?

The Earth observation sector is experiencing a golden age. Satellite hardware and launch costs have plummeted, and computer power, driven by AI and analytics, continues to improve. That’s led to […] The post The ‘ground… Read more: The ‘ground truth’ gap in AgTech: Why satellites alone can’t save supply chains

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced it has been recognized for the first time on Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies list. In its fourth edition, the America’s Most Innovative Companies… Read more: DXC Named Among Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies 2026

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ magnetic fields.… Read more: Scientists discover “alien space weather stations” that could reveal habitable planets

Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may have been blasted into space by powerful dust storms. Scientists have discovered that even… Read more: Scientists stunned as Mars dust storms blast water into space

Researchers have uncovered a new way to generate exotic oscillation states in tiny magnetic structures—using only minimal energy. By exciting magnetic waves, they triggered a delicate motion that produced a rich spectrum of signals never… Read more: Scientists discover bizarre new states inside tiny magnetic whirlpools

Species are vanishing faster than ever, and many are disappearing before scientists even know they exist. Now, an international team is racing against time to uncover hidden life beneath the waves by building a massive… Read more: Ocean species are disappearing before scientists can even find them

Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last… Read more: Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

Arora brings experience scaling SaaS and AI platforms as Luma accelerates growth, serving 160M patients across 1,300+ health systems by end of 2026 Following 39% CARR growth in 2026, Luma Health, the Operational AI platform for healthcare, has… Read more: Luma Health Welcomes Puneet Arora as Chief Growth Officer

New AI agent automates investigations with senior SOC analyst expertise at machine scale and speed to deliver accurate, fully explained verdicts that dramatically reduce remediation times Datadog, Inc., (NASDAQ: DDOG), the leading AI-powered observability and… Read more: Bits AI Security Analyst Reduces Threat Investigation Time by up to 98%

Global IT corporation FPT has been recognized in the Agentic AI category at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards for IvyChat, its enterprise-grade agentic AI platform. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the award recognizes organizations, products,… Read more: FPT Named for Agentic AI at 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards

Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier. I asked OpenAI’s bot 500 questions to see what these ads were like and how they related to my prompts.

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.

MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, a global leader in high-performance and energy-efficient server solutions, and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings Corporation (TWSE:3706), is highlighting its latest AI-ready infrastructure, OCP-compliant platforms, and liquid cooling innovations at CloudFest 2026 (Booth… Read more: MiTAC Leads with AI-Ready, Liquid Cooling at CloudFest 2026

Fabrix’s Agentic AI Platform Earns Analyst Recognition in Six Distinct Gartner Research Reports Fabrix.ai, the enterprise agentic operational intelligence platform company, today announced it has been recognized across multiple Gartner research reports on agentic AI… Read more: Fabrix.ai Featured in Multiple Gartner Agentic AI Reports

For the past two years, the dominant mental model of AI has been simple: one powerful model, one prompt, one response. Think copilots, chatbots, and assistants, polished, helpful, and fundamentally, solo performers. That model is… Read more: AI swarms are coming: Here’s why it matters

Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial role Five firms including Autotrader and Just Eat investigated over fake review failings The holiday flat near(ish) the Roman… Read more: I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me

The new technical hub gives developers, partners, and enterprise teams a clear path to embed continuous financial oversight into existing systems as finance becomes increasingly autonomous MindBridge has launched its Developer Portal, a centralized hub… Read more: MindBridge Launches Developer Portal for Financial Oversight

Using a smartphone with long nails can be frustrating, forcing people to awkwardly tap with their fingertips instead of their nails. Now, researchers are working on a clear nail polish that could change that by… Read more: Scientists create clear nail polish that lets you use touchscreens with long nails

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially designed diet produced up to 15 times more… Read more: Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

Face-off is over company’s refusal to let defense department use its Claude AI model in autonomous weapons systems A federal judge in California sided with Anthropic in its case against the Department of Defense on… Read more: Federal judge sides with Anthropic in first round of standoff with Pentagon

A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label starting next week.

Netflix isn’t preparing for a multibillion acquisition anymore, but it’s still raising prices. As first spotted by Android Authority today, Netflix now lists its ad-supported plan as costing $9 per month, up from $8/month. The… Read more: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t had a director since August, and now it’s without even a temporary one after the Trump administration blew through a federal deadline on Wednesday to nominate someone… Read more: As RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find

P3 Global Intel claims that it has “quickly become the new standard in tip management for Crime Stoppers programs, [Law Enforcement Agencies], and government agencies helping to solve and prevent crimes around the world.” Its… Read more: Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of “anonymous” crime tips

Spotify and major record labels are seeking a $322 million default judgment from Anna’s Archive, which hasn’t responded to court proceedings over its scraping of millions of music files from Spotify’s streaming service. The music… Read more: Spotify seeks $300M from Anna’s Archive, which ignores all court proceedings

On Thursday, Elon Musk lost his lawsuit alleging that advertisers violated antitrust law by colluding on an ad boycott after he took over Twitter, gutted content moderation teams, and disbanded the Trust and Safety Council.… Read more: Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal

Here are 12 AI prompt templates professionals can use to write, plan, debug, analyze data, and get more useful output from AI tools. The post 12 AI Prompt Templates Every Professional Should Bookmark appeared first… Read more: 12 AI Prompt Templates Every Professional Should Bookmark

Tech giants Meta and Google-owned YouTube suffered a devastating legal blow yesterday after losing a landmark social media addiction trial, a watershed outcome that’s likely to reverberate across the social media industry — and shrapnel from… Read more: Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry

Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature’s molecular machines. They walk, stretch, bend, and flex to do their jobs,… Read more: MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape

Growing up in Mexico and Texas, Mariano Salcedo ’25 couldn’t readily indulge his passion for creating music. “There are no bands in Mexican public schools,” he says. While some families could pay for instruments and… Read more: Seeing sounds

Text generated by artificial intelligence often has a particular vibe that gives it away as machine-generated, but it has become harder to pick out those idiosyncrasies as the tech has improved. We may be seeing… Read more: The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you’re talking to a robot

We all need a little validation now and then from friends or family, but sometimes too much validation can backfire—and the same is true of AI chatbots. There have been several recent cases of overly… Read more: Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

With a new war in the Middle East driving up gas prices, American drivers are once again remembering that electric vehicles are much cheaper to operate and therefore worth considering. Buying a brand-new EV might… Read more: You’ve got $20,000 to spend on an EV: Here are some options

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious experience in… Read more: What is consciousness? Michael Pollan spent 4 years looking for the answer

This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address hidden behind Apple’s ‘Hide… Read more: Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature

OpenClaw agents, which are personal AI assistants designed to take over entire computers to carry out complex, multistep tasks, have blown up this year. The free and open-source agents quickly amassed a loyal following, allowing… Read more: OpenClaw Bots Are a Security Disaster

The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox New York City’s public… Read more: New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic’s AI Claude, protestors have rallied around the company’s headquarters to call for a complete stop to AI development. Last weekend, nearly 200 protestors… Read more: Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself

The odds that the New York Times and other major news outlets have published AI-generated articles — whether knowing it or not — seem very high indeed. Speculation abounded on this possibility earlier this week,… Read more: Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles

Following backlash, OpenAI won’t be rolling out an erotic version of ChatGPT any time soon. According to the Financial Times, the controversial plan has been shelved “indefinitely” as OpenAI “refocuses” its attention on “core products.”… Read more: OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT

A new feature film, Makemation, is an African coming-of-age story set in a time of artificial intelligence (AI). Makemation was produced by Nigerian AI-developer-turned-filmmaker Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji. As conversations about AI are dominated by external global… Read more: Makemation: a Nollywood movie that shows AI in action in Africa

Many of our graphics card reviews early last year and in the early 2020s focused on the difficulties of reviewing and recommending graphics cards when the manufacturer-suggested price points effectively didn’t exist. Now, reviews of any… Read more: Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs

Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

Meta faces layoffs, legal setbacks, and scrutiny as it doubles down on AI investments, raising questions about priorities, safety, and long-term strategy. The post Layoffs and Lawsuits Collide in Meta’s Worst Week Yet appeared first… Read more: Layoffs and Lawsuits Collide in Meta’s Worst Week Yet

Intermittent layoffs are the norm at Meta, but it’s now carrying them out as its shift towards building AI — and using it to attempt to speed up its own workforce — becomes more overt… Read more: With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount

AI data centers face growing backlash over water use. Atmospheric water harvesting offers a new way to generate sustainable cooling water from air. The post AI Data Centers Face Water Backlash — Can Air Solve… Read more: AI Data Centers Face Water Backlash — Can Air Solve the Crisis?

Chevrolet provided flights from Albany, New York, to Las Vegas, Nevada, and accommodation so Ars could check out the new Grand Sport. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Chevrolet has developed something of a… Read more: The Corvette E-Ray is dead, long live the Grand Sport X

Menlo Security’s Ramin Farassat speaks with TechRepublic about how browser-based controls can protect AI agents from prompt injection and other fast-scaling enterprise risks. The post The Next Billion Users Won’t Be Human: Securing the Agentic… Read more: The Next Billion Users Won’t Be Human: Securing the Agentic Enterprise

Recent repairs to a centuries-old tile floor at a church in the Netherlands may have revealed the skeleton of the French Musketeer d’Artagnan. Today, Charles de Batz de Castlemore, Count d’Artagnan, is best known as… Read more: Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer

A groundbreaking research paper introduces a clever solution to one of AI’s thorniest problems: accountability in multi-agent systems. As organizations increasingly deploy AI architectures where multiple specialized agents collaborate to produce outputs, determining which agent… Read more: When multi-agent AI systems fail, who takes the blame?

From finance and healthcare to government and academia, a growing cadre of Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) and CISCOs are shaping strategy, driving adoption, and defining the future of AI in the city.  For anyone interested… Read more: Top 20 tech leaders in New York

After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for… Read more: Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

Georgia State Patrol used its system of Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance cameras to issue a ticket to a motorcyclist who was allegedly looking at his cell phone while riding, according to a… Read more: Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket

In Disney’s beloved 1993 family film, “Homeward Bound,” a ragtag group of two dogs and a cat embark on a daring quest through the wildness of the Sierra Nevada mountains to return to their owners.… Read more: Those Viral Posts About the Brave Kidnapped Dogs Escaping and Finding Their Homes Together Are Fake, You Gullible Buffoons

Across much of the Western United States, winter 2026 was the year the snow never came. Many ski resorts got by with snowmaking but shut down their winter operations early. Fire officials and water supply… Read more: 2026’s historic snow drought is bad news for the West

The walls continue to close in on OpenAI. The company recently raised an additional $10 billion in funding, bringing its valuation one small step closer to $1 trillion. But actually making any money continues to… Read more: OpenAI Cancels Spicy “Adult Mode” Chatbot as Crisis Deepens

Debates about generative AI in higher education have been informed by studies of completed student papers, or self-reported survey data. Research shows that artificial intelligence tools can support learning, but also has raised concerns, including… Read more: College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

Deepfake X-rays created by AI are now convincing enough to fool both doctors and AI models. In tests, radiologists had limited success identifying fake images, especially when they didn’t know they were being shown. This… Read more: Deepfake X-rays are so real even doctors can’t tell the difference

Long COVID remains a frustrating medical mystery, affecting up to 1 in 10 people long after the initial infection fades. Now, scientists have uncovered a crucial clue hidden deep within the immune system. By analyzing… Read more: Scientists find immune cell linked to long COVID fatigue and symptoms

By closely monitoring fish throughout their lives, researchers found that simple behaviors in midlife—like movement and sleep—can predict lifespan. Fish that stayed active and slept mostly at night tended to live longer, while those slowing… Read more: What you do in midlife could reveal how long you’ll live

Researchers have identified a crucial ion channel, TMEM175, that acts like an overflow valve in the cell’s recycling system. It regulates acidity inside lysosomes, ensuring they function properly. When TMEM175 is faulty, toxic buildup can… Read more: Scientists discover “overflow valve” in cells linked to Parkinson’s Disease

A cow named Veronika has stunned scientists by using tools in a flexible and purposeful way. She chooses different ends of a brush depending on the part of her body and adjusts her movements accordingly.… Read more: This cow uses tools like a primate—and scientists are stunned

In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.

Eline van der Velden says she developed her ‘digital twin’ to provoke discussion but backlash from some has been worse than expected The creator of the AI actor Tilly Norwood has said she received death… Read more: Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project

New RELEX research finds nearly half of organizations are investing in AI-driven inventory and supply optimization as companies redesign planning strategies for long-term volatility RELEX Solutions today released the State of Supply Chain 2026: Volatility,… Read more: RELEX: AI Moves Into Core Supply Chain Decisions as Volatility Persists

ElevenLabs integration with IBM watsonx Orchestrate will help clients to deliver natural, multilingual conversational experiences at scale ElevenLabs and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced they are collaborating to bring ElevenLabs Text to Speech (TTS) and Speech… Read more: ElevenLabs and IBM Bring Premium Voice Capabilities to Agentic AI

Company Is One of the First Carrier-Neutral Data Center Providers in North America to Achieve Gold-Tier Verification Providing Customers Simplified, Enterprise-Grade Connectivity to All Google Internet-Based Services CoreSite, an American Tower company (NYSE: AMT) empowering critical business… Read more: CoreSite Becomes a Google Gold Verified Peering Provider

Solo will also contribute agentregistry to CNCF to increase the velocity of its popular and growing suite of AI solutions and projects KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe — Solo.io, the leading provider of cloud native connectivity and… Read more: Solo.io Introduces the agentevals Open Source Project

AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.

One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter… Read more: Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

RPA (robotic process automation) is a practical and proven way to reduce manual work in business processes without AI systems. By using software bots to follow fixed rules, companies can automate repetitive tasks like data… Read more: RPA matters, but AI changes how automation works

New AI agents accelerate legal discovery, suppress surveillance noise, and transform idle communications data into a defensible engine for global compliance As messaging channels multiply and AI-generated content grows, Smarsh is redefining the traditionally resource-intensive… Read more: Smarsh Unleashes AI Agents to Reduce Corporate Legal Discovery Costs by 75%

Snow flies have an unexpected way of surviving freezing temperatures. They produce antifreeze proteins to block ice formation and can even generate their own heat. Scientists also found that their genes are unusually unique, and… Read more: Scientists found a bug that generates its own heat in freezing cold

Vivid dreams might be doing more than just entertaining your mind at night. Researchers found that immersive dreaming can actually make sleep feel deeper and more refreshing, even when brain activity is high. Surprisingly, people… Read more: Vivid dreams may be the secret to deeper, more restful sleep

Watchdog issues formal guidance to trustees at top AI research institute after staff expressed concerns The board of the UK’s leading AI research institute has been reminded of its legal duties in areas such as… Read more: Charity Commission warns Alan Turing Institute of its legal duties after complaints

Deep inside a cave, scientists uncovered fossils from 16 species, including a newfound kākāpō ancestor that may have been able to fly. These remains reveal that New Zealand’s ecosystems were constantly disrupted by volcanic eruptions… Read more: Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule beneath New Zealand