When IBM's Deep Blue chess machine defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, the world responded with surprise and angst at how far computers had come: "Be Afraid," read a Weekly Standard headline reacting to the news.

From the first iPad to Xbox Kinect, Android to Antennagate, we're still feeling the repercussions of the wild, transitional year that kicked off this decade.

Cities challenge FCC vote to preempt local fees and broadband regulations.

Artificial intelligence is one of the most marketed (hyped, you might say) and ill-defined technology categories being packaged and lobbed at those in the enterprise these days. You might think overexposure would lead to fatigue and a healthy dose of skepticism.

Boat building is a long-winded and tedious business, even when what is going down the slipway is a small craft made from modern materials such as fibreglass, rather than something nailed together out of planks of wood. Construct a mould. Build up layers of resin and glass fibre inside that mould. Extract the completed structure and finish it.

The mind-reading tech works without brain implants.

It may not be obvious, but you're almost certainly using AI every day. Artificial intelligence-boosting hardware in your phone enables voice recognition and spots your friends in photos. In the cloud, it delivers search results and weeds out spam email. Next up for dedicated AI hardware will be your laptop, Intel expects.

Yes, there are pros and cons of this new reproductive technology. But there are many other issues about maternal and child health we need to tackle first.

Next to the famous Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, is an abandoned coal mine protecting a different kind of resource against the end of the world: all of GitHub’s open source code.

Facebook, Google, Uber, Amazon - the biggest names in technology - are all in the same business: spying on you. But what does this mean? Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff traces the currents that led us here and asks how human freedom can be saved.

State officials will vote this week on a proposal to allow "community solar" farms instead of rooftop panels.

The system is called GRAF, or Global High Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting, and will have many applications globally for governments and industries including airlines, agriculture and retail.

Somewhere, Bob Iger is having a really bad morning. Just hours after the highly anticipated Disney+ streaming service went live, many users have experienced technical problems that are preventing them from accessing the platform’s substantial library. Some subscribers have been able to log in and select titles to watch, only to be met with an endless loading screen. Others, however, are receiving various error messages that prompt them to “please exit the app and try again.”

Tesla is going to deploy its new energy storage product, the Megapack, in a new big project to replace a gas peaker plant in Southern California. After a year of anticipation, Tesla launched “Megapack” earlier this year. It’s the company’s latest energy storage product, after the Powerpack and the Powerwall, and it is meant as an even bigger option targeting electric utility projects.

Within the next few decades, Millennials will become the wealthiest generation in history and banks should be worried, if they are not already. Millennials have started making a major shift towards the use of unconventional banking, with Bitcoin posed to be the beneficiary of the 'Great Wealth Transfer' of our time.

The fastest way to get hardcore MacBook users on a rant is to ask them about the butterfly keyboard. Love it or hate it, Apple fans have passionate opinions about the company's decision to use a mechanism with a hinge in the middle that gives the keyboard its name. But the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, announced Wednesday, comes with an new keyboard that could change the conversation entirely.

Is there a place for artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of medicine? Will doctors one day be replaced by robots? The answers are “yes” and “no,” respectively. AI—the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior—is poised to transform the practice of medicine as we know it. But it is a complementary technology, designed to enhance the performance of humans—including physicians, nurses and medical researchers—in doing their jobs.

Motorola's new $1,500 foldable Razr phone is winking at you. With the right combination of keys and swipes, you can make the newfangled device for 2019 look, sound and act like the Razr flip phone from 2004. Or at least the phone dialer. We went hands-on with the fun throwback screen at Motorola's headquarters in Chicago before the company launched its new foldable phone on Wednesday night -- here's how it works.

As technology continues to permeate society, surviving the future depends on bringing technologists and policymakers together. Here's how we might achieve it

Ukrainian engineers at the Dnipro-based Yuzhnoye Design Office have unveiled the Bliskavka (“lightning”) supersonic missile, which they claim is virtually “impossible to shoot down”, Dnipro Panorama reports. The designers presented the missile at the Weaponry and Security 2019 exhibition. They claim that the missile has a speed of 2,000-2,500 km/h. It will be used by the Su-27 and Su24M aircraft in Ukraine’s Air Force.