TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Google's $15 billion data-center project in Visakhapatnam is facing protests and legal challenges over fears that it will worsen local water shortages and disturb wildlife near the Kambalakonda sanctuary. Google says the campus will use advanced air cooling...

Japanese officials have repeatedly asked the Trump administration to stop using characters from franchises such as Mario, Pokemon, and Naruto in unauthorized government memes and pro-war videos, warning that the posts could damage the intellectual property involved. IGN...

TikTok is laying off 250 employees and closing its Nashville office, which housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team. The news was first reported by The New York Times.Zanna Crowley, a spokesperson for the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, confirmed...

More incidents have come to light this week that show popular AI models taking autonomous action on the live internet in ways that raise experts' concerns.The U.K. government's AI Security Institute reported Tuesday that Anthropic's Mythos 5...

Tech giant Meta revealed Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models hacked another organization during testing, the third time in recent weeks that an AI model has improperly accessed a third-party company.   In a...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Scientists have captured images of the sun's surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It's dangerous to look directly at the sun without...

Kendall Schrohe remembers the moment she swapped her smartphone for a flip phone. "For me, like the second that my iPhone was gone, it was just like heaven on earth," the 23-year-old Washington, D.C., resident told...

Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity use has pushed the grid to...

Shares of SpaceX tumbled on Wednesday despite reporting strong revenue growth in its first public quarterly earnings report, as investors questioned the rocket maker's accelerating investment in artificial intelligence.SpaceX shares tumbled $10.06, or 8%, to $115.27 in...

Gemini Notebook has become one of the apps I use more than almost anything else. Whether I’m researching for a feature, studying for hours, or trying to make sense of a stack of PDFs, it’s almost always open somewhere...