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).

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.

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.

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Industry pundits and media were woefully wide of the mark

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Luckily, Voyager 2's instruments are in somewhat better shape than Voyager 1's, so scientists were able to observe the transition from the heliosphere, which is dominated by the sun, to the interstellar medium (ISM). 

New research from Angela Duckworth and colleagues finds that characteristics beyond intelligence influence long-term achievement.

Nasa plans to send humans to Mars within two decades

Find out how a work app handles some of the security issues.

Snowden's name hit the headlines after the whistleblower leaked classified documents that detailed numerous global surveillance programs.

Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California. As costs skyrocket for renters and potential homebuyers — and as the availability of affordable housing fails to keep pace with the region’s growth — community members like teachers, firefighters, first responders and service workers are increasingly having to make the difficult choice to leave behind the community they have long called home.

Christopher Wylie says his former firm easily manipulated democracy with Facebook data. Could it happen again?

What do you do if your spaceship comes in for a landing and one of your parachutes doesn't work right? You hope the rest will do the job and get you back to Earth safely. That's the thinking behind a Crew Dragon safety test SpaceX shared to Twitter on Sunday.

Tenants in a New York City apartment complex are fighting their landlord’s effort to install a facial recognition system to access parts of the buildings, calling it an affront to their privacy rights.

Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

Our latest privacy experiment tested sites for an invisible form of online tracking that you can’t easily avoid.

Publishers are still figuring out what works and what doesn't on this latest hot new app.

The Safe Return Emergency Autoland System lets passengers hit a big red button to bring the plane to safety if the pilot's incapacitated.

Behind Hot Ones’ ambitions to be the future of late-night TV

A proposal (pdf) recently approved by the state's Public Service Commission (PSC) at Ravenswood's generating station in Long Island will see the construction of the world's largest battery storage facility that will help to "offset dirtier resources and enhance New…

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Apple's new AirPods Pro wireless earphones have begun launching around the world today. To celebrate, the company shared a few images of customers trying on the ‌AirPods Pro‌ for the first time at Apple retail stores in Shanghai and Tokyo.‌ AirPods Pro‌ feature active noise cancellation, IPX4 water and sweat resistance, H1 chip with "Hey Siri" support, and a new in-ear design that supports silicone tips in three different sizes. All of these upgrades have increased the price of the ‌AirPods Pro‌ to $249.

The social media company’s action is a stark contrast to Facebook, which is taking a hands-off approach to political advertising.

The Washington Nationals rallied in the seventh inning of Game 7 to defeat the Houston Astros 6-2 and capture their first World Series championship in franchise history.

In order to do its important research, the Green Bank Observatory needs electromagnetic silence. Is that even possible anymore?

As the tech industry transforms into a hotbed of employee dissent, Facebook employees have remained on the sidelines. Are they finally having their moment?

Spotify announced today that it beat expectations for third-quarter revenue and posted an operating profit of €54 million (about $60 million). This marks the third time in its history that the company has turned a profit, but one of those profits was the result of a tax windfall in 2018 that pushed it into the black.

In research materials seen by AppleInsider, regularly reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is claiming that Apple will begin mass production of what's referred to as the "iPhone SE 2" in January. It's not know what the model's name will be, but Kuo says that it will launched at the end of March.

Google searches for anxiety appear to accurately reflect population-level anxiety, according to new research published in the journal Emotion. “I am interested in the potential of big data analysis in illuminating the cultural influence on human minds. I think this type of analysis is especially useful to study questions that are difficult to study otherwise,” said study author Takeshi Hamamura, a senior lecturer at Curtin University in Australia.