TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Ten thousand followers. A hundred thousand views in thirty days. Those two numbers are the gate between posting on TikTok for free and getting paid by TikTok directly.The Creator Rewards Program is how that payment happens now. It replaced...

This article is brought to you by Ollobot.From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion...

AI accessibility tools have quietly become some of the more practical uses of the technology. We have already seen smartphones help visually impaired users find nearby objects and smart glasses connect them with people who can describe what is...

It may finally be safe to eat lettuce again after June’s horrifying—and bagged-salad-trust-destroying—cyclospora outbreak. But the summer of ’26’s foodborne illness train rolls on with a new rash of recalls: for salmonella.The FDA has reported multi-state salmonella bacteria outbreaks...

For most of my career, my IEEE membership sat quietly in the background—a line on my résumé, a discount code for a conference registration, and access to the IEEE Xplore digital library, which I underutilized. I didn’t think much...

The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place. This makes it difficult...

For decades, tech has been obsessed with making communication faster. Now, apparently, we’ve had enough. As The New York Times reports, the latest trend is slow tech, with apps like Carrier Pidge and Roost deliberately making messages take minutes,...

Gluons are the quantum 'Gorilla Glue' involved in binding quarks together, ScienceAlert reminds us. But for nearly 50 years, physicists have hunted for "glueballs", exotic particles predicted by this theory of the strong interaction — the...

Google showed my site inside its AI features 486,000 times in the last three months. Some of those became visits. Google counted every one of those clicks, then filed them in with my ordinary organic traffic and left nothing...

Bureaucracy is the silent killer of organizational speed. Originally designed to bring order, control and consistency to growing companies, excessive red tape has become a lethal bottleneck. Leaders who fail to dismantle redundant processes risk paralyzing their teams while...