Technological

The Netherlands' data protection authority has imposed a penalty of €30.5M on Clearview AI for GDPR violations.

Student-interns are paid for low-skill factory tasks and spend little time in the classroom.

Syrian-American entrepreneurs and investors hope to facilitate 25,000 new tech jobs in the country by 2030.

Clean-energy technologies made up more than 10% of China’s economy in 2024 for the first...

Carbon capture firm inks latest CO2 removal deals with social media giant TikTok and British rum maker Two Drifters

In Loving Memory of Humane AI Pin (April 2024-Feb 2025).

Explore the impact of Wikipedia’s deletionist approach and its effects on content preservation and management. This white paper offers a detailed analysis of the shift towards deletion and its implications.

Some fringe conspiracy theorists are connecting COVID-19 vaccines to the mark of the beast. A religion scholar explains why the biblical reference should be considered in its first-century context.

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Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people

As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.

A new degradable supramolecular plastic has been created that decomposes in seawater into monomers that can be metabolized by bacteria.

GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provides probabilistic, rather than deterministic, forecasts.

Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—the degree of continui…

Australia will spend AUD$100 billion to build the world's largest renewable energy facility occupying 22,700 sq km, areas larger than some countries.

How fast will it take over, how fast are costs shrinking, why is it so cheap, what industries will it birth, how much surface will it take up, where will it appear first?

By Om Malik Dennis Crowley has built his career at the intersection of emerging technologies and human behavior. Twenty years ago, as a 25-year-old inspired...

Initial test run of GPT-4o technology can help with regulations but ‘cannot provide predictions or opinions’

I used to feel powerless about climate change. Then I learned about this, and now I feel confident we can delay it at any time.

U.S. spying on it's citizens and China taking advantage of that backdoor for months before anyone realizing.

This is only going to get worse over time.

Chinese hackers were in networks of major ISPs “for months,” WSJ reports.

WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.

The board is a “live document” that Sonos will update.

Carbon Mapper’s ultra-precise Tanager-1 is headed to space.

Uber and Lyft have found a new way to evade a New York City law guaranteeing rideshare drivers a minimum wage. Since June, drivers say they’ve been arbitrarily locked out of apps when they want to work — setting the companies up to save hundreds of millions.

As new offerings for advertisers arrive, Google’s share of the U.S. search ad market is projected by one research firm to drop below 50% next year.