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Qingdao in E China's Shandong province moves towards higher end of home appliance industry
As Zhang returned home from work and stepped through the door of his house, the...
How to protect your data privacy: A digital media expert provides steps you can take and explains why you can’t go it alone
Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road...
Could a court really order the destruction of ChatGPT? The New York Times thinks so, and it may be right
On Dec. 27, 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that...
Why are so many robots white?
Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the...
Can technology clean up our air? An atmospheric scientist got a glimpse of the future
Every few years I visit CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas,...
Spreadsheet errors can have disastrous consequences – yet we keep making the same mistakes
Spreadsheet blunders aren’t just frustrating personal inconveniences. They can have...
AI is supposed to make us more efficient – but it could mean we waste more energy
The European Union is negotiating an Artificial Intelligence Act, the world’s first...
The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI could have major implications for the development of machine intelligence
In 1954, the Guardian’s science correspondent reported on “electronic brains”, which...
An international body will need to oversee AI regulation, but we need to think carefully about what it looks like
Artificial intelligence (AI) will have serious societal impact globally. So it is...
Valley of lost cities found in the Amazon – technological advances in archaeology are only the beginning of discovery
A valley of lost cities has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Combining two types of molecular boron nitride could create a hybrid material used in faster, more powerful electronics
In chemistry, structure is everything. Compounds with the same chemical formula...
The top risks from technology that we’ll be facing by the year 2040
Bewilderingly rapid changes are happening in the technology and reach of computer...
Drone-zapping laser weapons now effective (and cheap) reality
A single burst of light is precisely aimed at a tiny drone flying at breakneck speed...
Lawyers are rapidly embracing AI: here’s how to avoid an ethical disaster
Imagine a world where legal research is conducted by lightning-fast algorithms,...
Fowl language: AI is learning to analyze chicken communications to help us understand what all the clucking’s about
Have you ever wondered what chickens are talking about? Chickens are quite the communicators...
What is credential stuffing and how can I protect myself? A cybersecurity researcher explains
Cyber-skulduggery is becoming the bane of modern life. Australia’s prime minister...