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Sergio Perez's struggles continue, facing pressure and rumors of replacement. Can he turn it around by Hungary?

According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, is once again China's richest person, now with a net worth of more than A$65 billion, placing him 27th globally.

A team of Belgian students and engineers on Friday won a solar-powered car race in South Africa, widely considered the most challenging for testing the technology.

Using a fusion of traditional and novel technological methods, researchers are hoping to better quantify emotions to transform the face of the emotion quantification field

As someone that has always lived in the UK countryside, I am no stranger to the glory of a dark star-filled sky. Sadly, 60% of the world's population has already lost access to the night sky thanks to light pollution. Across Europe and the U.S., that number climbs to nearer 80%.

Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years and are becoming an integral part of our everyday lives through applications like ChatGPT. An article recently published in Nature Human Behaviour explains the opportunities and risks that arise from the use of LLMs for our ability to collectively deliberate, make decisions, and solve problems.

Microsoft’s 20-year deal is a first of its kind for the software maker.

US nuclear plant Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history, is to restart operations in a deal to sell power to Microsoft, Constellation Energy said Friday.

As the popularity of electronic scooters (also called e-scooters) skyrockets, University of Alberta safety experts are hoping to slow the accompanying rise in injuries by advocating for better regulation and rider education.

Meta has announced third-party augmented reality (AR) filters will no longer be available on its apps as of January 2025. This means more than 2 million user-made filters offered across WhatsApp, Facebook and, most notably, Instagram will disappear.

When German journalist Martin Bernklau typed his name and location into Microsoft's Copilot to see how his articles would be picked up by the chatbot, the answers horrified him.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already transformed how we work and communicate. Now, it's making its way into our pockets.

TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms are being flooded with uncanny and bizarre content generated with artificial intelligence (AI), from fake videos of the US government capturing vampires to images of shrimp Jesus.

They may be Tigrinya speakers fleeing the authoritarian Eritrean government's indefinite military service policy. Or Rohingya people escaping ethnic violence in Myanmar. But refugees navigating resettlement often face a shared hurdle: poor machine translations and a short supply of interpreters knowledgeable in their less-serviced languages.

Recent decisions by several Australian and New Zealand cities to discontinue shared e‑scooter services have again thrust misperceptions and moral panic into the limelight.

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building's lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the same physical building blocks.

Solar panels and wind turbines get a lot of attention in the current conversation about renewable energy. Meanwhile, hydropower is quietly, consistently producing large amounts of clean energy—and has been for more than a century. In fact, nearly 27% of all current renewable energy generation in the United States comes from hydroelectric operations.

Ever wonder what happens to massive supercomputing systems when they're retired? Surprisingly, when it comes to the data, it's not too different from disposing of old documents—they go straight into a shredder and sent to recycling.

Apple is giving more people the chance to test a software update that will implant artificial intelligence into its virtual assistant Siri and automate a variety of tedious tasks on the latest iPhone coming out Friday.

All of 23andMe's independent directors resigned from its board this week, a rare move that marks the latest challenge for the genetic-testing company.