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Stripe has apologised after staff wrongly said it would no longer process the payments of LGBTQ+ related content or goods.The firm, which millions of global businesses rely on for their online transactions, has come under fire for being one...

People with ADHD who take drugs to manage their symptoms have a lower risk of suicidal behaviours, criminal convictions,...

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading...

Amazon is expanding its same-day grocery delivery service to 1,000 cities and towns across the U.S., the company said Wednesday. It's also introducing thousands of perishable grocery items to its offerings, and will expand services to...

One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was slated to end October 30. The company was developing an RNAi-based therapeutic for H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu. RNAi is short for...

A year ago today, the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) published the first ever official standard for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. The standard was a result of a 2022 memorandum from the Biden administration that requires federal...

An understanding of the passage of time is fundamental to human consciousness. While we continue to debate whether artificial intelligence (AI) can possess consciousness, one thing is certain: AI will experience time differently. Its sense of time will be...

United Launch Alliance fired off its first operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first U.S. Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that eventually will replace the company's Atlas...

Cornell University researchers have developed an "invisible" light-based watermarking system that embeds unique codes into the physical light that illuminates the subject during recording, allowing any camera to capture authentication data without special hardware. By comparing these coded...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West...