TikTok's set to make an even bigger push on in-stream commerce this year.

New data shows a rising tide of coders in Bangladesh and Nigeria.

Benin-based Spiro exchanges old bikes for electric models across four African countries, but the experience has been a mix of pain and success.

Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like 'The New York Times' now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.

A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

The world's first full-scale timber wind turbine has started turning in Sweden, with a tower built by wood technology company Modvion.

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

A South Yorkshire tech centre has extracted carbon dioxide in a project that could reshape aviation travel

The tool, Nightshade, introduces subtle alterations into an image to confuse AI models and "poison" their training data.

Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates that the Vision Pro

Acquisitions, job postings and academic papers suggest tech company is preparing to run AI through its devices

Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities

The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but to ask people for information from the Internet, because right now it’s all full of AI dogshit.

It has been a truly bizarre week. We’ve watched three banks die, and then a fourth bank almost died (Credit Suisse) before being scooped up by UBS for the rock-bottom price of $3.2bn. Credit Suisse’s fall from grace is especially remarkable given that it was

Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades

WindCORES operates data centers inside wind turbines located in a wind park in western Germany, which the company says makes the centers almost carbon neutral.

When plants sense danger like a nearby herbivore ready to take a bite, calcium erupts within their systems.

The device is the size of a water bottle and made of copper, aluminium and other parts worth around $10. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Automated wind-energy system brings portable renewables off-grid

What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home

It is the zoomers’ web now.

technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

Chinese *public EV chargers* use more electricity than Greece 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ySfP7HHVem— Justin Guay (@Guay_JG) January 8, 2024

Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools.

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Arctic Ice argues its rare, pure product can be part of Greenland’s green transition and greater independence

Ikea's 2023 Life at Home Report looks at how people will escape social upheaval and a changing climate to find joy in the future.

Fourth-quarter sales from Elon Musk’s group beat estimates but fall behind Chinese rival for the first time