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Companies deliberately design customer service friction to discourage refunds and claims, according to research into a practice academics call "sludge." The term, coined by legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein and economist Richard H. Thaler in their updated version...

Her relapse into depression felt like defeat—but it offered vital clues to achieving lasting psychiatric relief.The 67-year-old woman from Alabama had already endured four major depressive episodes in her decades-long battle with mental illness. After exhausting numerous medications and...

In a literal sense, digital engineering is as old as the first back-of-the-napkin sketch that was shoved in a pocket before being modeled in a computer-aided design program. Those pencil marks became data points, and they were soon joined...

An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech news site The Register:The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages....

Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday, promising to go head-to-head with the social giant in the war for top research talent. This memo, which was sent to OpenAI employees...

In recent days, videos generated by artificial intelligence have surfaced online purporting to show dramatic scenes from the Iran-Israel conflict, including an AI-generated woman reporting from a burning prison in Tehran and fake footage of...

MaryLou CostaTechnology ReporterReporting fromVilnius, LithuaniaEnergesmanBut regulations set by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) are currently barring councils from using fly larvae to process food waste.If regulation could move in line with science, Mr Kotch argues...

When Hausi A. Müller began conducting research on quantum computing a decade ago, he was excited about the technology’s possibilities for engineering and computer science applications. Quantum computing leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to tackle problems that are...

Chris Vallance & Liv McMahonTechnology reportersGetty ImagesPornhub and a number of other major adult websites have confirmed they will introduce enhanced age checks for users from next month.Parent company Aylo says it is bringing in "government approved age assurance...

The mobile operator Three has confirmed some users are currently unable to make phone calls.In a post on X, the network said there was "an issue affecting voice services" but did not say how many of its 11 million...