Technology

Accidents happen, but not all of them are inevitable. Drunk driving is one of the deadliest and most preventable causes of roadway fatalities. In 2022 alone, more than 13,000 people died in alcohol-related vehicular crashes in the United States,...

Coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Codeium are already changing software engineering. Based on existing code and an engineer’s prompts, these assistants can suggest new lines or whole chunks of code, serving as a kind of advanced autocomplete.At...

Marks and Spencer (M&S) says it has been dealing with a "cyber incident" affecting some of its services over the last few days.The UK retailer said its Click and Collect service had been impacted by technical issues along with...

We know that social media can be harmful to teens. Meta has found in its own research that Instagram makes body image worse for one in three teen girls, and Snapchat has been sued several times for not doing...

Researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack called Slopsquatting, where threat actors exploit hallucinated, non-existent package names generated by AI coding tools like GPT-4 and CodeLlama. These believable yet fake packages, representing almost 20% of the samples...

A hearing kicked off today in Washington, D.C., that could determine whether Google remains in its current form, or if it could face penalties such as selling off its popular Chrome web browser. The so-called remedy...

Henry Samueli, cofounder of Broadcom and the 2025 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor, has this advice for engineering students and recent graduates just starting on their careers:“Don’t do engineering for the money. Do it because it can...

In 1991, very few people had Internet access. Those who did post in online forums or email friends from home typically accessed the Internet via telephone line, their messages traveling at a top speed of 14.4 kilobits per second....

In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.A University of Virginia academic journal says the book "appraises the past and present" of information technology while issuing "a warning about its...

Table of Contents Table of Contents Memory innovations headed to AI phones The interplay of storage and AI  Going beyond the RAM capacity The road to more private AI experiences?  One of the most obvious — and honestly, the dullest —trends within the smartphone industry...