TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

New submitter greytree shares a report from Brown University: LUX-ZEPLIN, an experiment co-led by Brown University faculty and students, observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate --...

Pyka and Windracers are building aircraft from scratch, arguing this allows autonomy to be designed in from the outset and the aircraft tailored to the job.Others are retrofitting existing larger planes.Backed by Boeing's investment arm, US-based Reliable Robotics is...

John Ternus has officially taken over as Apple CEO after 15 years under Tim Cook, stepping up from his role as senior vice president of hardware engineering. A 25-year Apple veteran who helped oversee products including AirPods, Apple...

OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” in preparation for its imminent release.“We plan to make Astra available soon,” OpenAI’s blog...

Available for over a yearEnglish is the most widely-used language online. Internet material helps to train AI tools. So where does that leave people whose native language barely features on the web? We find out about a project helping...

Across IEEE, our strength lies not only in the excellence of our individual communities but also in our ability to bring them together around shared problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions. Our mission as a public charity—to advance technology for...

Thirty years after launching during the dot-com boom, MapQuest has a new roadmap to success.The digital mapping company is now the top free app in the Apple App Store after declining to rename Lake Ontario...

New-age health wearables, especially rings, have had a well-known blind spot for a long time. Most of the data processing behind their scores is trained on a small, controlled group of people. Ultrahuman has proposed a fix, and it’s perfectly...

You are about to spend somewhere between $3,000 and $30,000 a month on an ecommerce marketing agency. And almost every page you have read while researching that decision was written by someone who wants the money.That is the problem...

Researchers have found that tiny electrical charges picked up by moving water droplets may be damaging cars and buildings like the Eiffel Tower. In experiments, thousands of charged droplets degraded Teflon and corroded the copper beneath it, while...