Japan's top court delivered a clear message this spring. Artificial intelligence cannot appear as an inventor on patent applications. The Supreme Court dismissed an American ...
The rapid expansion of data centers across the eastern United States has placed unprecedented pressure on the regional power grid managed by PJM Interconnection. According to a ...
Beijing-based Z.ai released GLM-5.2 last month. It landed fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index. The score? 51. That puts it ahead of several rivals and first am...
Children have seized on artificial intelligence with startling speed. UNICEF estimates at least 20 million of them across 10 countries have already used the technology. Many ...
Beijing-based Z.ai released GLM-5.2 last month. It landed fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index. The score? 51. That puts it ahead of several rivals and first am...
Children have seized on artificial intelligence with startling speed. UNICEF estimates at least 20 million of them across 10 countries have already used the technology. Many ...
BYD just posted its strongest overseas performance yet. In June the Chinese automaker delivered 175,349 new energy vehicles abroad. That figure smashed the previous monthly h...
WhatsApp just opened reservations for usernames. The change sounds simple. Users will soon message each other with handles instead of phone numbers. Yet within days the move ...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a laboratory-positive case of Marburg virus disease in Uganda, adding a new layer of complexity to an already...
Europe’s top court just delivered a decisive blow. On July 2, the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed Google’s final appeal against a record antitrust penalt...
Russia and China keep tightening bonds in artificial intelligence. Their moves come as both nations face sanctions and export controls from the United States and its allies. ...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have built a synthetic cell from scratch that feeds, grows, copies its DNA and divides for a handful of generations. The achievemen...
The U.S. legal sector added 5,100 jobs in June. That gain pushed total employment to 1,243,500. A new high. The third in a row.Preliminary figures from the Labor Depar...
Over 650,000 bags of popular Zapp's and Dirty brand potato chips now carry the Food and Drug Administration's most serious warning. The agency reclassified the voluntary reca...
Briahna O’Neill believed in the mission. She joined Wisk Aero in 2022 as a software manager. Three years later she was gone. Fired, she says, weeks after she filed internal...
Tech executives once dismissed power as a background concern. No longer. Data centers built to train and run ever-larger artificial intelligence models now consume electricit...
Reddit has drawn a line. Starting over the next month, anyone who wants to browse the classic interface at old.reddit.com must first log in with an account. The change, rolle...
Years of incremental tweaks to the Linux kernel's process scheduler finally gave way to a structural change. The Completely Fair Scheduler, or CFS, had steered CPU allocation...
US home battery installations surged to a record high in the first quarter of 2026, according to fresh data that shows residential energy storage continuing its rapid expansion ...
One month after a fireball consumed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the pad at Cape Canaveral, the company's pace of recovery has drawn open praise from the head of NASA. T...
Scientists have crossed a long-sought threshold. They assembled a cell-like structure entirely from non-living chemicals. It feeds. It grows. It copies its genetic code. Then...
Microsoft pulled the plug on free support for Windows 10 last October. Yet in New Zealand nearly one in four desktop computers still runs the decade-old system. That stubborn...
Hotel front desks handle complaints every hour. A message about bed bugs or a poor room review lands in the inbox. Staff open the attached photos. Minutes later, a machine on...
Swift is falling. After more than two decades scanning the sky for the universe's most violent explosions, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory faces an uncontrolled plunge ...