TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist. As a co-founder of Goodwater Capital, a firm focused exclusively on consumer and prosumer technology, he has built a portfolio...

The rapid evolution of the global engineering landscape requires continuous education. For one week in April, the IEEE community focuses on its educational frameworks. IEEE Education Week, which just concluded its fifth year, provided a comprehensive overview of the...

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!I’ve sat on...

We are born with the essential architecture of our brain raring to go. Over the previous nine months –...

Ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers buried near Lake Baikal in Siberia suggests there were deadly outbreaks of the plague as...

Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world. But building capable robots...

On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hours.How did they...

New artificial intelligence tools are making it easier to start a business, fueling entrepreneurship and potentially job growth.AI can write a business plan, conduct in-depth industry research, generate marketing content, design logos, prototype new products,...

Over the past three months, I've sat down with more than a dozen agency owners and operators for unhurried conversations about their work. It's one of my favorite parts of my job as a product marketer, even if it...

Microsoft is expanding its ambitions for workplace AI with the general availability of Copilot Cowork, an agentic system designed to handle complex tasks from start to finish rather than simply offering suggestions.After spending three months in Microsoft’s Frontier preview...