Technology

Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston Dynamics AI Institute.Both organizations were...

Since ChatGPT was released just over two years ago, its use everywhere from the workplace to academia has expanded significantly. In schools across the country, teachers and administrators have been grappling with how to contend with this new tool....

International expansion is another priority for Workday, which plans to seize the growing demand for cloud-based HR solutions outside the United States. DeStefano noted that the company is taking a three-pronged approach to ensure financial stability: “cost reductions, market...

President Trump’s first weeks back in the White House have included government groups scrambling to figure out their funding and Wall Street investors getting whipsawed by trade wars that seemed to begin and then end in an instant.But through...

Remote sensing—a category broad enough to include both personal medical monitors and space weather forecasting—is poised for a quantum upgrade, much like computing and cryptography before it. A new type of quantum sensor that promises both higher sensitivity and...

The company that once opened its code of conduct with the words “Don’t be evil” is now opening the door to assisting in the creation of AI-powered weapons and surveillance systems.Changes in the company’s statement of AI principles introduced...

Less than a week after Chinese start-up DeepSeek rocked the tech industry, leading generative AI (genAI) model providers are scrambling to shore up their market foothold and find ways to emulate the newcomer’s tech efficiencies.Last week, DeepSeek’s...

Getty ImagesBanning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental wellbeing, the first study of its kind suggests.Students' sleep, classroom behaviour, exercise or how long they spend on their phones overall also...

Every time someone views a video on Facebook or Instagram, they engage with Amey Dharwadker’s work. The machine learning engineering manager at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, leads Facebook’s video recommendations quality ranking team.Dharwadker’s work focuses on improving the quality...

September 11 left a lasting impression on Stephen Beaton, and like many others of his generation, he joined the military.But at the U.S. Air Force academy, his journey took a bit of a turn. There, his chemistry studies deepened...