Technology

An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms.The company that makes the Bluesky social app announced...

Stress during pregnancy, perhaps around the 6-to-8-month mark especially, may prime certain immune cells in a fetus’s skin to...

Millions of people worldwide have reason to be thankful that Swedish engineer Rune Elmqvist decided not to practice medicine. Although qualified as a doctor, he chose to invent medical equipment instead. In 1949, while working at Elema-Schonander (later Siemens-Elema),...

AI is starting to be trusted with high-stakes tasks, including running automated factories and guiding military drones through hostile airspace. But when it comes to managing the data centers that power this AI revolution, human operators are far more...

Artificial intelligence is replacing entry-level workers whose jobs can be performed by generative AI tools like ChatGPT, a rigorous new study finds.  Early-career employees in fields that are most exposed to AI have experienced a...

Japan has launched its first entirely homegrown quantum computer, built with domestic superconducting qubits and components, and running on the country's own open-source software toolchain, OQTOPUS. "The system is now ready to take on workloads from its base...

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences announced leadership changes in three of its academic...

We used to get especially dissatisfied with life during middle age, creating an “unhappiness hump” nestled between the more...

YouTube TV subscribers could be set to lose access to content from media company Fox, including college football, unless the sides strike a new carriage deal.With the current agreement between the sides nearing a renewal...

There are the bad product ideas that just make you sigh, and then there are the ones you absolutely...