Technology News

OpenAI’s new model is able to “lie,” or simulate compliance with a given task.

Surround yourself with adoring bots instead of humans.

Signature Plastics is continuing on under new ownership.

SB 1047 is still on Newsom’s desk.

It wasn’t a bug after all.

Browser extensions, the software add-ons that help users customize and enhance their web browsers, are wildly popular. Some of the most-used extensions find shopping deals, fix grammar and typos, manage passwords, or translate web pages. The types of extensions available are nearly endless, and many have become indispensable tools for businesses and everyday users.

In May, a major cyberattack disabled clinical operations for nearly a month at Ascension, a health care provider that includes 140 hospitals across the U.S. Investigators tracked the problem to malicious ransomware that had infected an employee's computer.

A discovery six years ago took the condensed-matter physics world by storm: Ultra-thin carbon stacked in two slightly askew layers became a superconductor, and changing the twist angle between layers could toggle their electrical properties. The landmark 2018 paper describing "magic-angle graphene superlattices" launched a new field called "twistronics," and the first author was then-MIT graduate student and recent Harvard Junior Fellow Yuan Cao.

U.S. auto plants producing battery electric vehicles have required a larger workforce than traditional internal combustion engine plants—a finding that runs counter to early predictions about how EVs would impact the industry.

Tomorrow's workplace will be run on mind-boggling amounts of data. To make sense of it all, businesses, developers and individuals will need better artificial intelligence (AI) systems, better trained AI workers and more efficient number-crunching servers.

Google on Tuesday said it would halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns, a decision reflecting growing worries about the impact of power-thirsty projects around the world.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off Tuesday on legislation aiming at protecting Hollywood actors and performers against unauthorized artificial intelligence that could be used to create digital clones of themselves without their consent.

The increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies has turned social media into a central place where users look for help when they have problems with their crypto wallet or private key. Scammers take advantage of this situation to make money with fake support offerings or to gain access to wallets or keys.

Machine learning algorithms significantly outperform human judgment in detecting lying during high-stakes strategic interactions, according to new research from the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management.

Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives.

Shares of Intel are surging before the market opens Tuesday after the chipmaker said its foundry business would make some custom artificial intelligence chips for Amazon Web Services as it attempts to reinvigorate its business.

Google bought advertising technology provider AdMeld in 2011 because the search giant saw the startup as a "threat" to its online display ad strategy, antitrust enforcers sought to show at trial Monday.

Ensuring that robots can smoothly collaborate with humans in real-world environments is a crucial step towards their large-scale deployment. While some robotic systems are already engaging daily with human agents, for instance at partially automated industrial and manufacturing facilities, human-robot collaboration on everyday tasks remains scarce.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, it marked a new era for the struggling San Francisco company.

Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese sibling, has recently shifted its e-commerce strategy to re-prioritize GMV growth over price competitiveness in an attempt to