TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

In 1991, very few people had Internet access. Those who did post in online forums or email friends from home typically accessed the Internet via telephone line, their messages traveling at a top speed of 14.4 kilobits per second....

In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.A University of Virginia academic journal says the book "appraises the past and present" of information technology while issuing "a warning about its...

Table of Contents Table of Contents Memory innovations headed to AI phones The interplay of storage and AI  Going beyond the RAM capacity The road to more private AI experiences?  One of the most obvious — and honestly, the dullest —trends within the smartphone industry...

A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI’s o3 AI model is raising questions about the company’s transparency and model testing practices.When OpenAI unveiled o3 in December, the company claimed the model could answer just over ...

Table of Contents Table of Contents What is happening? Let them opt out, if they can Imagine a tech giant telling you that it wants your Instagram and Facebook posts to train its AI models. And that too, without any incentive. You could,...

Editor’s Note: Henry Samueli is the 2025 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor. IEEE Spectrum published this profile of Samueli in the September 1999 issue. With the recent explosion in the popularity of cable and digital subscriber-line modems...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I didn't start my business on my own. Sure, I'm the only founder, and I conceived the ideas that my...

Matt Asay answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2010 (as the then-COO of Canonical). He currently runs developer relations at MongoDB (after holding similar positions at AWS and Adobe).This week he contributed an opinion to piece to InfoWorld...

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners.Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the first world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside...

Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire.Such is the case with Mechanize, a startup whose founder –...