Technology

MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced that Vice Provost for the Arts Philip S. Khoury will step...

When British solar manufacturerOxford PV shipped the first commercial order of perovskite-silicon solar cells last September, it was touted as a breakthrough in the industry. The news marked a milestone in a 15-year global effort to develop this lightweight,...

OpenAI said on Monday that it was restructuring as a public benefit corporation, allowing the nonprofit that controls OpenAI to retain its grip on the company.The decision is a victory for OpenAI’s critics, including one of its founders, Elon...

One of the largest websites dedicated to deepfake pornography announced that it has shut down after a critical service provider withdrew its support, effectively halting the site's operations. Mr. Deepfakes, created in 2018, has been described...

The US government is expanding its surveillance of social media to monitor millions of visitors and immigrants – and...

At first, residents of the upscale cul-de-sac in West Lake Hills, Texas, did not know who had moved into the 6,900-square-foot, six-bedroom mansion next door.Then construction workers arrived to erect a 16-foot chain-link fence around the $6 million property,...

More than 250 CEOs signed an open letter published in The New York Times on Monday calling for AI and computer science to be “core components” of K-12 curricula.The signatories, which include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Etsy CEO Josh...

Since last September, I’ve been spending seven hours a day, five days a week happily researching the history of women in electrical engineering. So far I’ve uncovered the names of more than 200 women who contributed to electrical engineering,...

Some time in next 10 years, a Chinese mission aims to do what’s never been done before: collect cloud particles from Venus and bring them home. But achieving that goal will mean overcoming one of the most hostile environments...

A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on a brackish beach in Oregon. The species was named Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis in honor of the Yaquina tribe of Native Americans that once lived...