Technology

I attended this year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony on 23 and 24 April at the Hilton Tokyo Odaiba hotel. The event celebrates pioneers in engineering who have developed technology that changes the way people...

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife. From a report: While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics,...

This article is excerpted fromEvery American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life, by Matthew Wisnioski (The MIT Press, 2025).Imagine a point-to-point transportation service in which two parties communicate at a distance. A passenger in need of...

TikTok is preventing users searching for "skinnytok" - a hashtag which critics say directs people towards content which "idolises extreme thinness."Content associated with the hashtag includes videos showing people's work-out routines or what they eat in a day. TikTok...

The economic winds whipped up by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff proclamations in early April have been anything but a gentle breeze. Rising prices, fomenting trade wars, and uncertainty about when tariffs will go into effect has led to...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world's first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March,...

Florida’s newest termite is two for the price of one, but nobody’s celebrating. Two species of globally invasive, timber-chewing...

Meta has struck a 20-year deal with energy company Constellation to keep the Clinton Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Illinois operational, the social media giant's first nuclear power purchase agreement as it seeks clean energy sources for...

The robots that share our public spaces today are so demure. Social robots and service robots aim to avoid offense, erring toward polite airs, positive emotions, and obedience. In some ways, this makes sense—would you really want to have...

Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44M Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $114M.The Series B round was...