Facebook is on track for record ad revenue this year. That’s partly due to its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers, and disinformation peddlers who buy ads that rip off and manipulate people, say former and current workers.

Synthetic voices have become ubiquitous. They feed us directions in the morning, shepherd us through phone calls by day and broadcast the news on smart speakers at night. And as the technology used to make them improves, these voices are becoming more and more human-sounding. This is the final frontier in synthetic speech: replicating not just what we say but how we say it.

The Linux Foundation and Harvard find it's not money that drives programmers to work on open source but the love of solving problems and creation.

NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks.

How does talking to a digital approximation of your dearly departed in the not-too-distant future sound?

The long-rumored headphones are Apple’s end-of-year hardware surprise

A disclosure sheds new light on a high-profile national security law as lawmakers prepare to revive a debate over it in the Biden administration.

The Japanese government will invest in artificial intelligence (AI) to bring single citizens together -- and, perhaps, help stabilize falling birth rates. As reported by the Japan Times, the Cabinet Office intends to allocate ¥2 billion ($19 million) to local authorities that run dating programs for residents.

Though I’ve long thought that tomorrow's desktop will be cloud-based, even I didn't expect the next desktop-as-a-service would be macOS running on the AWS cloud.

Apple's short-term plan for Apple Silicon is reportedly a larger MacBook Pro and iMac refresh in 2021, with a Mac Pro with up to 32 high-performance cores coming at some point in 2022.

Enigma device stymied Allied intelligence until Alan Turing cracked it.

Micro Magic's new CPU offers decent performance with record-breaking efficiency.

A team retrieves a capsule carrying the first significant quantities of rock from an asteroid.

Google Hangouts is going away. Here's what you need to know.

A new bill in congress suggests the government buys up and sells cocaine.

New research provides evidence that Americans’ media consumption habits and trust in government predicts their level of knowledge about COVID-19. The study appears in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

The Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand is comparable to a human hand, reproducing all of its degrees of freedom While dexterous manipulation of objects is a fundamental everyday task for humans, it is still very challenging for autonomous robotic hands to master Researchers at WMG, University of Warw

Amazon’s refusal to sell e-books published in-house to libraries is sparking backlash as demand for digital content spikes during the coronavirus pandemic. Librarians and advocacy groups are pushing for the tech giant to license its published e-books to libraries for distribution, arguing the company’s self-imposed ban significantly decreases public access to information.

Multiple outlets have reported the Federal Trade Commission is likely to file its own antitrust lawsuit against the social media giant.

False claims that the vaccine contains microchips or is being tested on people without their consent will be removed

The Linux Foundation's first certification for entry-level system classes is ready to help you get started on your modern-day IT job hunt.

The coronavirus pandemic closed 18 major Nasa facilities and significantly hindered the Artemis mission

The FDA has given NightWare clearance to market a “digital therapeutic” device that uses an Apple Watch to interrupt PTSD-related nightmares.

Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers were fired in the wake of employee organizing efforts. Now, the NLRB says the terminations violated labor law.

“This is a class of people we did not expect robots to have an effect. Because managers, by definition, supervise other human beings, so we really cannot replace their functions until the singularity occurs with artificial general intelligence.”

My college dorm was the first place I had reliable home internet access, and that was in part because my mom shared all the late 1990s and early 2000s parenting fears about the internet breaking our brains. These worries were an extension of prior concerns about television: Don't sit so close!

Before Apple patch, Wi-Fi packets could steal photos. No interaction needed. Over the air.

Ever watch that movie, or play that video game, about the hacker who can instantly take over someone’s device without touching it at all? Those scenes are typically unrealistic as heck. But every once in a while, a real-life hack makes them seem downright plausible — a hack like the one you can see examples of in the videos above and below.

Universal Studios Japan has today announced the release date for their upcoming Super Nintendo World theme park. The park will be based in Osaka and will feature a Mario Kart ride that utilises AR headsets.

The dark web has a shady reputation. Hidden below the transparency and visibility of the internet's surface, the complex anonymity networks that make up the dark web host and distribute all kinds of murky content: illicit drugs, child abuse material,