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The AI industry entered 2025 with strong momentum. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised rounds that were...

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his...

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting down several VR game studios, according...

The power of volcanoes to change Earth’s climate may not be as ancient as previously thought. Throughout our planet’s history,...

Joe TidyWorld Service Cyber CorrespondentBBCThere's something uniquely agonising about having your cryptocurrency stolen. All transactions are recorded on a digital ledger, known as a blockchain, so even if someone takes your money and puts it in their own crypto...

U.S. college graduates "have historically found jobs more quickly than people with only a high school degree," writes Bloomberg."But that advantage is becoming a thing of the past, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of...

In the US, cars follow only housing as the most expensive purchase consumers make. So it makes a lot of sense that, according to recent buyer surveys, very few of them want an Amazon-style, one-click approach to getting a...

Frequently Asked QuestionsHow We Tested and What We TestedAccordionItemContainerButtonWe put each juicer through the paces, funneling a mountain of vegetables and fruit through each device, testing especially its ability to handle both tough and fibrous veggies and softer produce...

At the AI safety site Foom, science journalist Mordechai Rorvig explores a paper presented at November's Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference:esearchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and...

As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead."This...