Technology

Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards.The honorees are selected by the IEEE Awards Board...

Last week, after a Mississippi grand jury declined to bring criminal charges in the death of Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old Black college student who disappeared on Horn Island while traveling with a group of white friends and was later...

Trump also reiterated his support for the rapid expansion of data centres - the crucial computing infrastructure that powers AI.The rollout of data centres has drawn pushback around the country over concerns about electricity usage and their potential impact...

OpenAI used its DevDay 2026 keynote on Tuesday to announce a bunch of new features, including Dots. It’s basically a new kind of AI agent built to run continuously in the background rather than wait for you to open...

Oura has pulled its plan to sell shares in its business on the US stock market, in a move which would have valued the firm at $15bn (£11.3bn), just days after announcing it.The maker of smart rings which track...

Seventeen years ago, cell biologist Donald Ingber and his colleagues at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering submitted a paper to the journal Science describing their model human lung. It was smaller than a USB stick and...

ChatGPT’s $200-per-month Pro subscription is getting ready to reopen to new users, but there’s a catch. When it comes back, the way your usage is calculated will look a little different. Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, who leads core products including...

New research suggests Enceladus may be an especially promising place to search for extraterrestrial life: microbes similar to those found near Earth's hydrothermal vents survived in lab conditions designed to mimic the Saturnian moon's subsurface ocean. A separate...

Brian, a middle-aged financial consultant, spends his day sitting in front of three screens. Two of them involve his job. The third features a chatbot, which he has given a woman’s name and frequently uses. Brian spent years on...

If you’ve been bragging about your sleeplessness or insomnia at work, getting more done than others because they’re sound asleep after hours, or using it as an excuse to push through an unnecessarily taxing vacation, new research may make...