TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

I'm trying to hit 5,000 Instagram followers by the end of Q2 2026, and Instagram DM automation is one of the biggest reasons I'm even remotely close to that goal.If you’ve been on Instagram recently, you've almost certainly seen...

Artificial intelligence could one day supercharge human cognition, leading to significant advances in science, technology and other fields. It could also make us dull, new academic research suggests.That's because the so-called large language models that...

When the bone marrow transplant failed to treat my leukaemia, it was like: this is it, there’s nothing else...

Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1...

AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced that close to 90,000 job cuts were tied to AI, and, by some accounts, up to 15% of U.S....

Artificial intelligence is getting surprisingly good at understanding humans. Now, Meta wants it to understand our brains too. The company has unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, an upgraded AI system that can translate brain activity into full sentences, all without requiring...

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s...

The US government wants to get hold of a quantum computer good enough to contribute to scientific breakthroughs in...

Childbirth can be extremely challenging for humans – but some other primates may have it even worse. A comprehensive...

IBM has unveiled "what it says is the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip technology," reports ZDNet, "designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM's earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown...