Wires have a lot going for them when it comes to moving electric power around, but they have their drawbacks too. Who, after all, hasn’t tired of having to plug in and unplug their phone and other rechargeable gizmos? It’s a nuisance.

The educational tools used by students during the pandemic also shared their information with advertisers and data brokers that could track them around the Web, an international investigation found.

Twitter has agreed to pay a $150 million fine after federal law enforcement officials accused the social media company of illegally using peoples' personal data over six years to help sell targeted advertisements.

Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to groundbreaking new research that found a foundational law for such reactors was wrong.

SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — In the cold, choppy waters of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, all eyes were on the gray water, looking for one thing only. It wasn’t a spout from humpback whales that power through this scenic fjord, or a sea otter lazing on its back, munching a king crab.

Proton Mail, Proton VPN and Proton Drive now fall under a single $9.99/month subscription

Smaller than a flea, robot can walk, bend, twist, turn and jump

Microsoft has filed a patent application detailing a foldable device that can fold both inward as well as outward, eliminating the need for a cover display.

Seth Green's upcoming animated NFT show is currently unable to go ahead after the main character, BoredApe #8398, was stolen in a phishing scam.

UK manufacturer aims to roll out machines capable of performing household chores such as washing up by 2030

Google Research has publicized Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion-based generator built on large transformer language models.

"We have observed a broad spectrum of behaviors mixing the characteristics of bots and people."

Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age

A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap.

Celebrating 15 years of Street View with new product and feature updates.

Innovations like cloud computing and artificial intelligence are hailed as engines of a coming productivity revival. But a broad payoff across the economy has been elusive.

Volkswagen's CEO said alleviating supply chain issues would likely help create some momentum for the German auto giant in the coming months.

Water scarcity is a major problem for much of the world’s population, but with the right equipment drinking water can be wrung out of thin air. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have now demonstrated a low-cost gel film that can pull many liters of water per day out of even very dry air.

MIT researchers claim they've built an AI that can determine a person's race from medical X-Rays. That would be a miraculous breakthrough.

Trying to attach a million-dollar, 60-ton wind turbine blade to its base is challenging in any circumstance — getting the angle wrong by even a fraction of a degree could affect the machine’s ability to generate power. Now imagine trying to do it in the middle of the North Sea, one of the world’s windiest spots, with waves swelling around you. It’s like tying a thread to a kite at the beach and then trying to put it through the eye of a needle.