Technology

If you have ever lifted the lid of a trash bin on a hot day, you know the smell I am talking about. One of the culprits behind that sour, vinegary stench is acetic acid, which builds up as...

Comparing Our Favorite E-ReadersHonorable MentionsBelow, find a few more e-readers I like but don't necessarily love as much as my top picks.Boox Go 7 ($270) and Boox Go Color 7 ($290): Boox is known for its wide range of...

Keeping an eye on remote waters is harder than it sounds. Boats take ages to get there, and aircraft can’t stick around long enough to be useful. As reported by TechXplore, researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and...

Longtime Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis shares a report from NPR: Google just put a refrigerator-sized satellite into space, part of a research project the company hopes can pave the way for orbiting AI data centers powered by the...

MIT formally dedicated its newly transformed Met Warehouse (Building W41) on Wednesday, in an energetic evening ceremony heralding the start of a new era for the practice of design on campus. The ceremony highlighted “the essential vision of the Met:...

As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to improve people’s lives. Her parents were Taiwanese immigrants, and her father had a long commute to his job, which...

Christos Cassandras has spent more than 40 years studying how computers and machines make decisions. Lately, his work has focused on a problem nearly every driver knows well: sitting at a red light with no cross traffic in sight,...

Amazon's cloud computing division on Friday announced a new effort to temper opposition to data centers in some U.S. communities, while saying the U.S. "can't afford to lose" the race to dominate artificial intelligence globally. The...

An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows.Qwen, a freely available model made by...

The Motley Fool is the O.G. stock and investment advice website, dating back to the early days of the Internet, when WIRED’s website was still called hotwired.com. It started as a tip sheet in the early ‘90s by brothers Tom...