A demonstration planned by a Roman Catholic diocese in Kansas that would have blocked the only entrance to a Wichita abortion clinic Saturday morning was canceled.

Nearly 200,000 books written by a wide range of authors, including Nora Roberts, are being used to train artificial intelligence systems, according to a recent report. No one asked for the writers’ permission — and many of them are not happy.

The police chief in Columbus, Ohio, is condemning an incident in which two officers told a father his 11-year-old daughter could face child porn charges for sending images to a man online.

Students will no longer be allowed to wear the long, flowing dress known as the abaya in classrooms.

Around ten National Science Foundation-funded space telescopes in Chile and Hawaii have been offline for around two weeks by a curious cyberattack.

A link between vision issues in older adults and an increased likelihood of dementia.

Investors fled digital assets after a nightmarish 2022, and the largest token by market capitalization now trades way below its record high.

For thousands of years, humans have slaughtered animals for meat. But Dr. Uma Valeti dreamt of a different way: eating chicken without having to kill a chicken. He figured out how to "grow" meat directly from animal cells. It's comple ...

A plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in Uruguay, which is suffering its worst drought in 74 years. Water shortages are so severe in the country that a state of emergency has been decla ...

Apple’s chipmaker partner TSMC has confirmed that it was impacted by a data breach on one of its third-party suppliers. As reported by TechCrunch, the ransomware group LockBit claimed responsibility for the breach and is demanding a ransom payment of ...

Critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity have been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol. The findings, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface today [21 June], reveal how cleaner air kills the ...

The Information's Wayne Ma today reiterated several features that Apple apparently developed but did not announce for the Vision Pro at WWDC earlier this month, including various fitness and wellness apps, full-body tracking, and more.

Shares of meat alternatives soared when Beyond Meat, the California-based producer that's come to epitomize the sector, went public four years ago. But a fall in stock prices suggests that venture capital's appetite for such investments may ...

Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing the tech giant of illegally collecting the personal information of children without their parents’ consent — and in some cases retaining it “for years.”

Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” was a box office hit with $760 million worldwide, but a lot of Marvel fans were turned off by writer-director Taika Waititi’s silly humor and the film’s unappealing visual effects. Thor actor himself, Chris Hemsworth ...

A suite of new but largely unproven technologies called direct lithium extraction could revolutionize lithium mining, making it more efficient and sustainable.

Drones struck Moscow on Tuesday but were neutralised, Russia said, in what one politician called the worst attack on the capital since World War II, while Kyiv was also hit from the air for the third time in 24 hours. Since Russia invaded its neighbo ...

AI expert Rodney Brooks is arguing that we're overestimating OpenAI's large language models and that they're far stupider than we think.

Tesla will recall more than 1.1 million cars in China due to potential safety risks, the country’s top market regulator said on Friday. Starting May 29, the US company will take back 1,104,622 vehicles that were produced between January 12, 2019, and ...

Apple plans to introduce larger 6.3 and 6.9-inch display sizes for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max in 2024, but the change in screen size will be limited to the Pro models. The standard ‌iPhone 16‌ models are expected to feature the same 6.1 and 6.7-in ...