TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Compare Our PicksOthers We TestedPhotograph: Kat MerckLitter-Robot 5 for $799: The base model Litter-Robot 5 offers several improvements and design tweaks over the base Litter-Robot 4: easier assembly and waste removal; an LCD screen; and, if you have a Whisker+...

Short videos have taken over just about every app we use. You scroll through them on X, lose track of time on Instagram, watch them on YouTube, and now even Netflix has its own bite-sized feed. So when I...

Three teams comprising 35 students across eight different MIT departments and Wellesley College have been at work...

Babies are born with an innate sense of numbers, and now, the brain mechanisms behind this ability have been...

I'm trying to hit 5,000 Instagram followers by the end of Q2 2026, and Instagram DM automation is one of the biggest reasons I'm even remotely close to that goal.If you’ve been on Instagram recently, you've almost certainly seen...

Artificial intelligence could one day supercharge human cognition, leading to significant advances in science, technology and other fields. It could also make us dull, new academic research suggests.That's because the so-called large language models that...

Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1...

AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced that close to 90,000 job cuts were tied to AI, and, by some accounts, up to 15% of U.S....

Artificial intelligence is getting surprisingly good at understanding humans. Now, Meta wants it to understand our brains too. The company has unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, an upgraded AI system that can translate brain activity into full sentences, all without requiring...

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s...