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L-theanine is an amino acid naturally found in tea leaves. First linked to tea’s calming effects in the 1940s,...

Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra.Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer service AI agents, announced it raised a $350 million funding round on Thursday. The round, led by earlier investor Greenoaks...

Chris BaraniukTechnology ReporterBoston MetalMr Nicholas says that emerging technologies such as this are hopeful, but one challenge they face is in breaking into the market in a big way within just a few years, since the need to slash...

Lenses made with liquid crystals could lead to eyeglasses that can easily switch between correcting near- and far-sightedness. Bifocal glasses...

Efforts to understand the universe could get a boost from an AI developed by Google DeepMind. The algorithm, which...

Liv McMahonTechnology reporterTeam CherryThe biggest online video game stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong - one of the most-anticipated games of the year.Thousands of users reported they were unable...

After six years of waiting, Team Cherry’s long awaited Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, launched globally today at 10 am eastern. Unfortunately, fans may have to wait a little longer to play the action-adventure game. Online retailers such as the...

Graham FraserTechnology reporterAlan Turing InstituteA month after Kyle's letter was sent, staff at the Turing institute warned the charity was at risk of collapse, after the threat to withdraw its funding.Workers raised a series of "serious and escalating concerns"...

Scale AI, which helps tech companies prepare data to train their AI models, filed a lawsuit against one of its former sales employees and its rival Mercor on Wednesday. The suit claims the employee, who was hired by Mercor,...