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.”

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.

Digital maps might be more practical in the 21st century, but the long tradition of cartography is magical

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.

Hundreds of homes and businesses in Cornwall have started selling electricity to their local energy network and the national energy system in a pioneering move. The trial is the first time that traditional energy users – such as homes, hotels and businesses – have acted as suppliers in a microcosm of a full energy system.

Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.

Earlier this week, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son said that it was a mistake to have invested in WeWork, and shared a “simple” three step plan to turn around the company, which included dumping side businesses that aren’t profitable. Well, it seems like that might be happening soon, as WeWork has published a “90-day game plan” that divests itself of those non-core businesses and includes internal layoffs, as first reported by CNBC.

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.

Google experimenting with lots of different badge options in a test that could launch in Chrome soon

Healium AR blends storytelling, neuroscience and game design so users can harness their feelings to power virtual worlds and find a sense of calm.

The construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment, is now 60 percent complete

Need CPU power? AMD has you covered with new 24-core and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors.

Amazon has big plans for its virtual assistant. One day, perhaps sooner than you think, Alexa will take a proactive role in directing our lives. It’ll interpret our data, make decisions for us, and summon us when it has something to say.

The recent release of Terminator: Dark Fate saw both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton reprise their iconic roles and James Cameron's return as a writer and producer. While the sentient killing machines depicted in the Terminator franchise are comprised of CGI and Hollywood special effects, plenty of real world research is going into developing robots with similar capabilities, just without the murderous intent (we hope).

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.

An AI that was deemed too dangerous to be released has now been released into the world. Researchers had feared that the model, known as "GPT-2", was so powerful that it could be maliciously misused by everyone from politicians to scammers.

Li Fan, a 21-year-old student, attempted suicide after posting a brief message on the Chinese Twitter-like platform Weibo just after Valentine's Day. "I can't go on anymore. I'm going to give up," he wrote. Soon after, he lost consciousness. He was in debt, had fallen out with his mother and was suffering from severe depression.

Rochester researchers have created a metallic structure so water repellent, it refuses to sink—no matter how often it is forced into water.

It’s become increasingly clear as we reach its limits that deep learning – a specific subset of AI technology – isn’t going to magically lead to human-level artificial intelligence.