Mountains of old phones, tablets, laptops, smart speakers, headphones, and assorted gadgets are leaching harmful chemicals into soil around dumps worldwide. That is, until they’re ready to get incinerated, at which point they’ll birth plumes of airborne toxins and endanger people in the developing world — all for the sake of a few nuggets of recovered semi-precious metals.

Scientists have long been developing machines that attempt to imitate the human brain. Just as humans are exposed to systemic injustices, machines learn human-like stereotypes and cultural norms from sociocultural data, acquiring biases and associations in the process. Our research shows that bias is not only reflected in the patterns of language, but also in the image datasets used to train computer vision models.

U.S. lawmakers and TikTok are hammering out a plan, under which the short-form video app would make changes to its data security and governance without requiring its parent firm, China's ByteDance to sell it, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Having covered Web3 for almost a year, I should have known that “crypto,” “DAO,” “DeFi,” “blockchain” and other terms associated with the future of the

In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen.

Have we already moved beyond peak social media?

Just like Putin, Zuckerberg went all-in on something that he wasn’t really ready to handle, putting everything else in jeopardy as a result.

Cyborg cockroaches in Japan are undergoing testing with electronic backpacks. Researchers use a remote control to direct the cockroaches' movements. Scientists are hoping the breakthrough research will help in search and rescue missions.

BETSY, short for Bovine Expert Tracking And Surveillance, is an Alberta-developed app that uses facial recognition cameras on livestock. If the app detects strange behaviour, it will alert the user.

SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday he plans to meet with Samsung Electronics to discuss a potential "strategic alliance" between the South Korean tech giant and chip designer Arm.

If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches.

A Meta spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal the practice is a way for Meta to keep talent it might otherwise have lost.

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction icon who first coined and popularized the term "metaverse," is pausing his literary career to build his own. 

As militaries develop ever-improving concrete bunkers and the bombs to bust them, the concrete just might be winning.

Morgan Stanley repeatedly failed to protect personal data of clients, says SEC.

Full Duplex DOCSIS expected in 2023 but won't be available to everyone at first.

By 2035, batteries in California BEVs could power every home in the state for 3 days.

The lack of regulation of online platforms puts our private lives up for sale.

Sam Curry tweeted that the tech giant had "randomly" transferred him almost a quarter of a million dollars and asked if it wanted the money returned.

NASA "are simply the best in the world at modeling these materials, hands down," SMART Tire co-founder Brian Yennie tells IE.