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New research suggests Oda Ujiharu, long derided as feudal Japan's most ineffective military leader, may have been mischaracterized. The Sengoku-period daimyo, who ruled from Oda Castle in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture, lost his fortress an unprecedented nine times to...

This year, Bell Labs celebrates its hundredth birthday. In a centennial celebration held last week at the Murray Hill, New Jersey campus, the lab’s impressive technological history was celebrated with talks, panels, demos, and over a half dozen gracefully...

The most accurate clock in space launches within days and will begin building a highly synchronised network out of...

Slices of wood can act as water filters that remove bacteria and microplastics with more than 99 per cent...

samleecole shares a report from 404 Media: American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and...

As technology rapidly propels society forward, MIT is rethinking how it prepares students to face the world...

Imran Rahman-Jones & Chris VallanceTechnology reportersGetty ImagesDiscord is testing face scanning to verify some users' ages in the UK and Australia.The social platform, which says it has over 200 million monthly users around the world, was initially used by...

Amazon has changed how we shop for just about everything—from books to furniture to groceries. Now, it’s transforming the way we lease cars. Through Amazon Autos, you can now lease a brand-new Hyundai entirely online—and even better, you’ll qualify for...

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon.The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses...