TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Whether you like it or not, ChatGPT is already everywhere. People use it to research complicated topics, clean up their writing, learn new skills, plan their lives, and, in my case, ask an embarrassing number of questions I could...

Rio de Janeiro — Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said Monday that it had suspended livestreams in Brazil after criticism that it failed to protect children and adolescents. The move came...

The maker of ChatGPT is rolling out a range of new safety features today for under-18s who use the AI chatbot.Those with new teen accounts will be able to switch off the human voice response, in order to minimise...

I noticed this on my own account before I understood why. I opened my grid one day and my posts looked off, even though I had framed every one of them carefully when I posted. That gap between careful...

The idea behind the trial is that if scientists can predict the areas of the atmosphere where contrails are likely to form, aircraft could avoid them.Google will use satellite images and flight data to identify where planes have previously...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later" loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card....

An unprecedented number of Apple customers have reported receiving a recent threat notification alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, according to experts who investigate these types of incidents. Several people publicly and privately reported receiving Apple’s spyware...

About 16 percent of the global population—more than 1 billion people—live with some form of disability, according to the World Health Organization. Many of the disabilities affect independence and mobility.Three high school students working on inventions to help people...

The FCC has a track record of using its Covered List to squeeze Chinese tech out of American markets, and robots just became its newest target. Foreign-made humanoids, quadrupeds, and even robot vacuums now need to be mostly built...

TikTok Shop did roughly $15.82 billion in US sales in 2025, up 108% in a single year, and it now accounts for about 18% of all US social commerce, according to EMARKETER. You can see the platform’s wider growth...