Technological

Warped timber and robotically woven flax were used to create a pair of experimental wooden structures in Germany, by researchers at University of Stuttgart.

Users say they are driven by a desire for companionship because China's fast pace of life and urban isolation make loneliness an issue for many.

State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.

A number of farmers are turning to space-based monitoring to get a better picture of what their crops need.

Strava launched in 2009 as a niche website for cyclists to log mileage. During the pandemic, it blossomed into a mobile app serving more than 120 million athletes as worldwide lockdowns drove people outdoors.

“Hot Ones,” “Chicken Shop Date” and “Good Mythical Morning” draw big audiences but aren’t getting the kind of ad dollars and accolades TV shows do.

A boom in data centers is expected to produce about 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally through the end of the decade, and accelerate investments in decarbonization efforts, according to Morgan Stanley research.

Scientists at Oxford University Physics Department have developed a revolutionary approach which could generate increasing amounts of solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar

“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”

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With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.

Two years in, union leaders say Biden’s big climate law is making a difference.

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts

Pakistan’s market for solar power is booming, propelled by a surge in imports from China, according to BloombergNEF.

Are AI-generated sermons the future of faith? With religious attendance falling, faith groups are turning to new technologies to attract members.

As tensions mount in the South China Sea, Vietnam is dredging and filling in land, fortifying barriers and erecting new structures to create hundreds of acres.

Making cement -- the most commonly used substance on Earth after water -- is responsible for 8% of global carbon emissions. It generates CO2 both through combustion of fossil fuels & through chemical processes. Sublime Systems thinks it has solved both sides of that equation. I talk with the CEO.

Xenobots may change how we think about intelligence.

The largest earthquake to hit Taiwan this century rattled the entire island overnight, collapsing buildings, damaging roads, and shutting down...

Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.

A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, amo…

Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.

Ministers say network of 27 radar dishes in Pembrokeshire crucial to defend against ‘increasing belligerence in space’

‘Pioneering’ facility will extract precious metal from up to 4,000 tonnes of scrap circuit boards a year

Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.

Tech firms have been spending historic amounts of money on AI—but will it pay off?

Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors

They claimed X's AI chatbot, Grok, had spread "false information on ballot deadlines."

A two-in-one solar bio-battery and solar panel has been created by researchers who printed living cyanobacteria and circuitry onto paper.

Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets