TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

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...

Cart abandonment rates for online stores typically fall between 65 and 80 percent, and payment-related friction is one of the largest contributors to...

Researchers at Nagoya University have developed a new type of transparent optical sensor that could significantly reduce the size of camera sensors while improving image quality. Published in the journal ACS Nano, the study demonstrates how gallium-doped zinc oxide...

Every time you use ChatGPT or generate an image with AI, there is a memory chip working at extreme speed behind the scenes. However, that chip has a memory bottleneck problem, and a Korean research team may have just...

Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity can reshape chemical bonds within molecules, and researchers have just seen it happen...

OpenAI seems to have a new AI model waiting in the wings every few months, and today is no different. The company has officially unveiled the GPT-5.6 family, bringing three new models to ChatGPT, Codex, and its API. The...