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The small nation of Togo used image analysis algorithms to target economic support for its most vulnerable residents.

Facebook artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have created the world's most detailed population density maps of Africa to help humanitarian relief efforts...

Researchers are using satellite and ground data to forecast the risk of cholera in the country, which has consistently experienced cases since 2017.

Every year, landslides – the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope – cause thousands of deaths, billions of dollars in damages, and disruptions to

We've been supporting the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) build chatbots with Twilio to directly help those fleeing their homes in Ukraine.

It isn’t yet known how many flights will actually be impacted by restrictions.

Waste is a failure of the imagination, goes the adage at Silo: the world’s first zero-waste restaurant

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery projec...

As the Apple car is no longer in the works, it's worth looking back at the company's history of its shelved projects, from AirPower to a TV.

In a new interview, drag superstar RuPaul Andre Charles dishes on a variety of topics -- including his fortified compound.

An innovative floating offshore wind turbine prototype was launched in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Instead of a single anchor tower, the approach uses a pyramid base that can also passively orient itself in the direction of the blowing wind.

Waterlogged streets, flooded malls, chemicals pumped into the skies... Should we really be playing with the weather?

The first generation of corporate design leaders are transitioning out of their executive roles at companies like IBM, McKinsey, and others. What comes next?

Yeah, you heard me: the 1993 video game Doom, which has been ported to every platform imaginable (an Apple Pippin, a jailbroken

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

Jennifer DeStefano tells US Senate about dangers of artificial technology after receiving phone call from scammers sounding exactly like her daughter

Cohere’s non-profit research lab, C4AI, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.

Programming in English might not be all its cracked up to be.

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.