On August 5, Fast Technology reported that, according to media reports, Mo Gawdat, former chief commercial officer at Google X warned that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace most workers in...
According to media reports, US authorities are secretly embedding tracking devices in chip shipments that could be illegally diverted to China. The trackers could be used in shipments of equipment...
The American startup Skydweller Aero has announced the successful testing of its solar drone, which spent nearly three days in flight without refueling. The device, with a wingspan larger than...
The first version of the Linux kernel, 6.17, has been released, with no changes to the bcachefs file system. And the reason isn't due to any technical issues. On August...
A 76-year-old New Jersey man died after a Meta chatbot convinced him to attend a meeting in New York. Thongbu Wongbandu, known to friends as Boo, suffered from cognitive decline...
Google is testing a new feature to improve privacy in Chrome's incognito mode on Windows: incognito script blocking (PrivacySandboxFingerprintingProtectionEnabled). This feature will block third-party scripts that use fingerprinting techniques to...
Musk recently stated publicly that his control over the company is precarious and that he "could be ousted." The controversy arose from Musk's publicly expressed concerns about his stake. Musk...
Eighteen years after a brainstem stroke left Anne Johnson almost completely paralyzed, she's now using a brain-computer interface (BCI) that converts speech directly from brain signals. In 2005, at age...
It appears that the United States has already seriously considered the concept of autonomous warfare. DARPA's autonomous fighter jet, capable of unmanned combat, is no longer considered a breakthrough: the...
Just two weeks ago, the humanoid robot produced by Figure amazed us when it deftly removed clothes from a laundry basket and placed them in a washing machine. This was...