TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Artificial intelligence has quickly become the go-to tool for everything from writing emails and summarizing meetings to helping students study or developers debug code. But the same technology that saves people time can also be misused, and a new...

China successfully recovered an orbital rocket booster for the first time, landing the Long March 10B's first stage into a net-equipped sea platform after its maiden launch. "This mission marks my country's first successful controlled recovery of a...

OpenAI’s head of safety systems Johannes Heidecke told staff this week that he’s leaving the company, WIRED has learned. Heidecke’s departure follows a reorganization that sought to integrate OpenAI’s safety and research teams.In a memo to staff seen by...

The computing community recently lost one of its enduring voices: IEEE Fellow Peter G. Neumann. The renowned computer scientist and respected risk analyst died on 17 May at the age of 93.For almost 70 years, Neumann shaped the computing...

A United Nations list of every object launched into space, conceived during the cold war as a way to...

Meta must change Facebook's and Instagram's "addictive" design or face a heavy fine, the EU has warned.In its preliminary findings, the European Commission said features such as infinite scroll, autoplaying videos and personalised recommendations could encourage "compulsive use", particularly...

In the lobby of a central London hotel, tourists are bracing themselves for a day of sightseeing in a...

Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley for China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating the discovery of advanced materials. "Last week, Tsinghua University in Beijing welcomed Dr. Yaghi in...

India on Thursday approved a manufacturing joint venture between China’s Vivo and local manufacturer Dixon Technologies, a move that could mark the next phase of the country’s smartphone manufacturing boom after Apple helped turn India into a global smartphone...

Every payment processor charges a per-transaction fee in some form, but the structure behind that fee varies enormously depending on the type of...