Technology

Disease historians have a problem. While examining samples of ancient human DNA, geneticists have come across genes belonging to...

Jamaica is being directly hit by what may be the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the...

Quantum computing has long held promise as the next era in information processing, with applications in drug discovery, finance, and encryption. But it’s only in recent years that the technology has edged closer to commercial viability. With that, a...

On Monday, Elon Musk’s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would...

The Alan Turing Institute Chair has told the BBC there is "no substance" to a number of serious accusations which rocked the organisation in the summer.In August, whistleblowers accused the charity's leadership of misusing public funds, overseeing a "toxic...

When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she had to go to the hospital four times a week to have her blood filtered by a machine...

Email security has always been a cat-and-mouse game. Viruses are invented, and antivirus software is invented to catalog known viruses and detect their presence in email attachments and URLs. As viruses morphed into more sophisticated forms of malware, cybersecurity...

Professor Ioannis V. Yannas SM...

The Internet, born as an experiment meant to connect teams of researchers, has grown into a planetary-scale infrastructure that has reshaped society. Over the course of six decades, it has advanced through—by our count—three phases: first connecting computers, then...

Crowdsourcing has become a go-to for independent and open-source hardware creators hoping to turn a cool prototype into a polished product. But many projects fail along the way, often for nontechnical reasons.Helen Leigh is the director of business development...