Technology

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal with the artificial intelligence start-up Cursor that could result in its...

OpenAI is back with another upgrade to ChatGPT’s image capabilities, and this one feels less like a gimmick and more like a serious step toward making AI visuals actually useful. OpenAI has officially introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new...

Investors are aggressively courting AI researchers to build startups that can make AI more reliable and efficient.Yu Su, an Ohio State professor leading an AI agent lab, said he initially resisted the pressure from VCs to commercialize his work....

Did you hear the one about the man who invented chess and got himself executed? Legend has it that...

Like many medical school students, Sam was broke.The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to...

After 15 years, Tim Cook will hand off the Apple CEO role to John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world’s most valuable companies, but if...

The countertop kitchen composter is a lovely vision. Instead of a smelly bucket of vegetable scraps and coffee grounds breeding fruit flies on your counter or attracting rats to your backyard, you could just put it all into a...

When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the new area of socially assistive robotics.As an associate professor of computer science, neuroscience, and pediatrics...

WhatsApp is testing a new subscription tier, similar to Instagram Plus and Snapchat+, that lets users pay for customized icons, themes, ringtones, and more. The paid plan’s features are largely cosmetic; users don’t get many additional functional features.WhatsApp Plus...

Last week, I arrived home to bad news about a sick relative. I took medication for a chronic gut...