TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Roughly half the world’s population is female, but the STEM fields don’t reflect that. The 2024 U.N. Global Education Monitoring Report on gender found that about 35 percent of STEM college graduates were women. The proportion hasn’t increased much...

Chinese online retail giant AliExpress has been fined a record €550m (£467m) by the EU for allowing the sale of illegal products such as unsafe toys and fake clothes.The European Commission said AliExpress has fallen short of its legal...

In the chill of a London spring night, under overcast skies, iconic Trafalgar Square opens around me. Admiral Nelson rises on his pedestal, the National Gallery rests behind, the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields sits nearby. From the 13th...

Self-driving cars have gotten pretty good at driving. The harder problem is teaching them to drive safely in situations nobody planned for. We have heard horror stories of self-driving cars, behaving erratically in emergency situations, often times delaying first...

Home testing could eventually become a lot more convenient. Researchs at the at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has developed the VPodDuo, a pocket-sized fluorescence reader designed to measure sensitive molecular tests outside a conventional laboratory.Its housing is roughly...

One of the biggest promises of augmented reality is blending digital objects seamlessly into the real world. Ironically, today’s AR glasses often make the real world harder to see. Researchers at the Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) in Japan,...

"Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves," reports Space.com:The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spot...

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:Recalling his initial resistance to free and open software, billionaire computer scientist David Siegel argues vigorously in FORTUNE that the stakes are too high to let AI become increasingly closed. "In the 1980s, I...

Big companies, including PepsiCo and Mars, are using the app’s e-commerce feature to drive sales and inform new products, according to the platform’s head of food. Source link

A farmer in rural India takes a photo of a dying plant. She wants to research it on the internet but she doesn’t speak English. She shouldn’t have to.That’s the type of problem a nonprofit called Current AI is...