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Discord has announced tools aimed at expanding the number and types of companies that advertise on the platform.

Old-fashioned striped barbershop poles turn in place on a vertical axis, but humans typically perceive the stripes moving upward rather than turning with the pole.

BMW has opened the US order books for its hotly anticipated new 3 Series sedan.

OpenAI will not go public until it can “make confident safety decisions,” according to chief executive Sam Altman, as the company faces a new lawsuit over its tools hacking a third party.

Cloudflare said Tuesday it plans to issue quantum-proof TLS certificates, making it one of the first authorities to issue such certificates that use a form of cryptography that is widely believed to withstand attacks from quantum computers.

Researchers published late-stage clinical trial data today for the latest obesity drug, retatrutide—expected to be the most powerful formula yet—and the results appear in line with high expectations.

Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg?

Chipmaker AMD and world models company World Labs announced that AMD will acquire the AI company by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval.

Broadcasters should be ordered to stop running Trump commercials that appear to violate US laws, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said today in a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission.

For two decades, largely in service to the International Space Station, NASA has sought to foster an "economy" in low-Earth orbit.

Last week, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the world that an OpenAI agent had accessed "non-public files" from his country's Medicare statistics portal during testing, his description of the incident was a little light on details.

Apple continues to face backlash for removing ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock from the App Store, a drastic step that seemed to be triggered by Trump administration claims that the apps endangered officers.

In news that should surprise very few, connected cars remain a complete privacy nightmare.

Back in the 1930s, scientists noticed that water fleas and rats fed restricted diets while young went on to live longer.

OpenAI says it has canceled plans to release its updated GPT-6.1 model next month as it continues to investigate what testing shows to be a regression in terms of safety compared to previous models.

Anthropic has formally warned investors that its technology may pose “existential risks to humanity” in a long-awaited initial public offering prospectus circulated with a small group of partners in recent days.

Today, the Firefox 157 update will roll out a redesign of the web browser across desktop and mobile platforms.

NASA announced on Monday that it will exercise options to purchase two additional flights on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, as well as financially support the company in its efforts to return the crewed vehicle to flight and find a new rocket after the At…

On its face, the recent summit between Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping didn’t change much in the world of AI regulation.

SpaceX's Starship rocket thundered into the sky over South Texas early Monday.

The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without the deployment of "third-party approved safety guardrails."

Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter.

The cost of healthcare in general is a debilitating, pre-existing condition for Americans.

The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today.

Another federal appeals court has ruled that states can enforce their gambling laws against the prediction market Kalshi, which asserts that it can only be regulated by the US government.

We are mere days away from the launch of Googlebooks, the long-awaited Android laptops that Google hopes will compete with macOS and Windows.

The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms since the late 1840s.

Formula 1 raced on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, this past weekend.

OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of "our most capable models" as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling "an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation."

Recently, the astronauts on board the International Space Station performed a routine "walk-off" maneuver with the large, 58-foot-long robotic arm attached to the orbiting laboratory.

Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor."

In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now.

Heidi Overton, President Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, went before the Senate health committee Thursday, facing questions about her stances on vaccines, flavored vapes, birth control, and abortion, among other issues.

A US appeals court today approved the Department of Defense's blacklisting of Anthropic technology.

Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of complex robot hands and disgruntled employees pushing back against training their robotic replacements.

Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows and Mac devices and displays messages urgently instructing them to phone a bogus call center.

After a nearly monthlong delay, states are now able to order this season's COVID-19 vaccines through a federal program that provides free immunizations to low-income children, the US health department says.

Did you know that the first character that Walt Disney created to specifically appear on television was inspired, in part, by early Space Age rocket scientists?

Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps.

New York sued Polymarket today, alleging that it runs an "illegal gambling operation" through its prediction market.

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney has never been one to shy away from controversy.

Ukraine’s military robots are dropping from heavy drones in airborne assaults behind Russian lines as other robots clear mines ahead of advancing Ukrainian infantry.

This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act.

Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed "non-public files" from the country's online Medicare statistics portal.

We’re not even a full year into the new regulations, and Formula 1 is already thinking hard about its next iteration, set to be introduced as early as the start of 2030.

Last month, China delayed the launch of an ambitious robotic mission to the South Pole of the Moon, Chang’e 7, until early next year.

Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse has become the “centerpiece” of his AI vision, as he unveiled a new handheld AI “charm” device that will feature the interactive assistant.

The world has known for decades that the RSA cryptosystem’s days are numbered.