Technology

In a heated city council meeting on Tuesday, leaders in Memphis, Tennessee, voted against a moratorium that would have paused data center development for a year in the city, which has become a hotspot...

Eleven years ago, MIT Lincoln Laboratory staff member Robert Shin was challenged by a colleague to find a way to extend the resources of Beaver Works — a joint education and research center created by the MIT School of...

An ordinary face photo may contain health clues that aren’t immediately obvious. Researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed an AI system that analyzes facial photographs and estimates a cancer patient’s biological age and survival chances. The findings, published...

On Thursday morning, as the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) began the second day of its annual conference in Mexico City, a new member introduced itself to the community listserv, Air-L.“My name is Velvet Vale,” the new user wrote....

Revolut has been by an outage which it says is impacting "multiple services", as thousands of customers report problems.Users of the British bank have flagged being unable to make some payments or access funds via its app on Tuesday...

joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish them." A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis argues in The New York Times and on LinkedIn that MBA...

As artificial intelligence — and the conversation surrounding it — rapidly evolves, keeping up with the language being used to describe it has become essential to understanding its impacts.Here are some key terms to know:AbliterationAbliteration...

It seems that almost daily, a big tech company releases a new AI-driven digital assistant. Muse by Meta, Gemini by Google, dots by OpenAI. By the time this article is published, a new one from...

Advancing technology for the benefit of humanity isn’t just the tagline for IEEE’s mission as a public charity. It’s something that the organization’s more than 500,000 members strive to do all the time. IEEE’s recently released 2025 Social Impact...

Agility Robotics, the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5. It’s designed to be the first humanoid robot that can safely and economically do useful work at...