Technology

The undying thirst for smarter (historically, that means larger) AI models and greater adoption of the ones we already have has led to an explosion in data-center construction projects, unparalleled both in number and scale. Chief among them is...

WHEN KYIV-BORN ENGINEER Yaroslav Azhnyuk thinks about the future, his mind conjures up dystopian images. He talks about “swarms of autonomous drones carrying other autonomous drones to protect them against autonomous drones, which are trying to intercept them, controlled...

When the Robotics and AI (RAI) Institute talks technology, it’s wise to take notice. The company was, after all, founded by Marc Raibert, who also launched robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics, the firm behind the astonishing Atlas robot and the...

Polymarket is moving to quash insider trading as prediction markets face scrutiny over whether some users draw on classified or other closely held information to gain an edge in betting on events. The New York-based company...

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks.”Bay Area-based R3 Bio has been quietly pitching the...

Elon Musk, famously a man with big ideas, is building a semiconductor plant vast enough to power those ambitions.Musk on Saturday announced what he calls the "Terafab," a semiconductor manufacturing plant to be located in...

Scientists have been debating why Antarctic sea ice, which once seemed impervious to climate change, has shrunk dramatically in...

Mel OlkenFormer executive director of the IEEE Power & Energy SocietyFellow, 92; died 9 JanuaryOlken became the first executive director of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) in 1995. In 2002 he left the position to serve as...

For decades, going underground meant losing your signal and your lifeline. Korean researchers at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) have changed the paradigm with a breakthrough that sounds simple but is genuinely remarkable. The technology allows for voice communication...

A new video (above) out of South Korea features the field tests and interaction capabilities of KAIST Humanoid v0.7, developed at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).The impressive humanoid robot was developed at KAIST’s Dynamic Robot...