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In the early days of the internet, famously, no one knew if you were a dog. The internet was a place where you could be anyone.

When it comes to our experience of the internet, "the times, they are a-changin'," as Bob Dylan would say. You can't quite recall how, but the internet certainly feels different these days.

Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now.

TikTok headed to court on Sept. 16, 2024, in a bid to overturn a law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned in the U.S.

Hot on the heels of still-dominant diesel cars, electric vehicles now outnumber petrol models for the first time in oil-rich Norway, a world first that puts the country on track to taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road.

Has the app improved enough yet to justify new products?

More EA Sports in your life.

Texts between Android and iPhone could get another big upgrade.

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.

It wasn’t a bug after all.

SB 1047 is still on Newsom’s desk.

Infrastructure often suffers severe damage due to both natural geotechnical hazards, such as floods or earthquakes, and man-made ones such as underground construction work and excavations.

A study finds that ChatGPT expresses cultural values resembling people in English-speaking and Protestant European countries. Large language models, including ChatGPT, are trained on data that overrepresent certain countries and cultures, raising the possibility that the output from these models may be culturally biased.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.