Technology

On Friday, The Information reported that Meta was preparing to tear down its existing AI org and reorganize it into four new groups. Four days later, the change has been made official with an internal memo, as reported by...

In the 1980s, people weren’t wearing head-mounted cameras, displays, or computers. Except for high school student Steve Mann, who regularly wore his homemade electronic computer vision system (seeing aid).Back then, Mann attracted stares, questions, suspicion, and sometimes hostility. But...

Frigid, remote and mostly uninhabited, Greenland isn’t a place that usually attracts much attention. But the autonomous Danish territory...

With the rise of artificial intelligence, advocates say it can be a helpful tool for kids and teachers — but others say it discourages students from critical thinking.Many educators have been teaching themselves how to...

The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT's NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Fortune: Despite...

General-purpose robots are hard to train. The dream is to have a robot like the Jetson’s Rosie that can performing a range of household tasks, like tidying up or folding laundry. But for that to happen, the robot needs...

Online questionnaires are being swamped by AI-generated responses – potentially polluting a vital data source for scientists. Platforms like Prolific...

Zoe CorbynTechnology ReporterReporting fromSan Francisco374WaterYet there is one potential issue with the technologies now coming through, says Jay Meegoda, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology: nasty PFAS degradation byproducts.For example, in...

Think of the Web as a digital territory with its own social contract. In 2014, Tim Berners-Lee called for a “Magna Carta for the Web” to restore the balance of power between individuals and institutions. This mirrors the original...

Charlotte EdwardsTechnology reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesA US senator is opening an investigation into Meta after a leaked document reportedly showed the tech giant's artificial intelligence (AI) was permitted to have "sensual" and "romantic" chats with children.The internal document, obtained...