Technology

This week's selloff in technology stocks underscores a gnawing anxiety among investors: What happens if you throw a big party and few people show up?The Nasdaq Composite Index has slipped nearly 3% this week as Wall Street...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. My research focused on simulating how...

IBM unveiled semiconductor technology Thursday that it says could deliver computer chips with 50 percent better performance while dramatically lowering power consumption. The technology developed by IBM isn't ready for industrial use yet, but the...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found complex carbon compounds in a Martian crater that had previously shown tantalising possible signs...

When considering the 1960s sitcoms Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, both of which featured women with supernatural powers navigating life with mortals, most people wouldn’t connect them with pursuing an engineering career. But Karen Panetta did. The sitcoms’...

Microsoft's claims it has made major breakthroughs in quantum computing have been questioned by a UK-based physicist, in a paper published by the science journal Nature.Dr Henry Legg, a long-term critic of Microsoft's quantum work, argued a software tool...

What could you do if you could make a circuit trace by just bending a piece of paper? How about bridging modern technologies and traditional handicrafts while providing opportunities for learning skills in both.As part of our interdisciplinary research...

SummaryRFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications.Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning and inverse design to rapidly create RFICs from scratch.Diffusion models rapidly generate novel or human-interpretable...

Google's YouTube has settled a social media addiction case brought by a 15-year-old in Florida, in a fresh legal blow for online platforms accused of fuelling a mental health crisis among children.The teenager, who used the initials R.K.C. in...

A major technology stock selloff stretched into a second day Tuesday as investors questioned whether artificial intelligence will generate the profits that have fueled lofty valuations for companies such as Alphabet, SpaceX and Nvidia.The tech-heavy...