KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX had to wait a day, but it ended up knocking out a pristine launch in the wee hours Thursday for Intuitive Machines, aiming to be the first commercial company to successfully make a soft landing on the moon.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Saturday, February 03, 2024
WASHINGTON — As deepfake scandals continue to rock both politics and pop culture, House and Senate lawmakers are grappling with the risks of rapidly advancing technology, while also trying to capitalize on the benefits of artificial intelligence for their own internal use.
Thursday, February 01, 2024
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday the company will hold a shareholder vote to transfer its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware, after a judge invalidated his $56 billion pay package at the electric vehicle (EV) maker.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO - In the early 2010s, conversations among Microsoft's top executives had become bleak. The smartphone revolution was in full swing, and Google and Apple were charging ahead, while Microsoft's efforts to build a mobile business were floundering.
Monday, January 29, 2024
Amazon will scrap its planned $1.7 billion acquisition of Roomba-maker iRobot after the European Commission said the deal would restrict competition in robot vacuums.
The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well, the company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk said.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Young people may be digital natives, but many of them aren’t equipped to deal with the increasing onslaught of disinformation and deepfakes appearing in their social media feeds.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Microsoft is cutting around 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, news website The Verge reported on Thursday, citing an internal memo from the head of the company's gaming division.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, acknowledging that he was the victim of a deepfake photo, on Wednesday warned against the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence, renewing a call for its worldwide regulation to harness it for the common good.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
WASHINGTON -- Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their "Doomsday Clock" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed Israel's Gaza war and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe.
Friday, January 19, 2024
LONDON — A 'jellyfish' UFO sighted flying over a US military base in Iraq has "haunted" forces for years, a former Marine has revealed.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The world’s largest deep-sea coral reef has been discovered off the East Coast: a massive 6.4 million acre seascape that stretches from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Exploration.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Elon Musk leaned on Tesla Inc.'s board to arrange another massive performance award for him after he sold a significant chunk of his stake in the company to acquire Twitter.
Monday, January 15, 2024
WASHINGTON — Rep. Eric Burlison wants to know the truth about aliens.
Friday, January 12, 2024
Kelly Carlin, the daughter of comedian George Carlin, is slamming an AI-generated comedy special mimicking the voice of her late father.
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
WASHINGTON — NASA on Tuesday added more delays to its Artemis moon program, scheduling for 2026 its first astronaut lunar landing in half a century while spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and other contractors face development challenges.
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would add more protections to the kind of content teens can see on Instagram and Facebook, after regulators around the globe pressed the social media firm to limit potentially harmful content.
Saturday, January 06, 2024
Mike O’Neil already was looking into adding solar power and battery storage at his home when he heard about a pilot program his electric company was launching.
The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission is considering how much power companies should pay solar customers who send the excess electricity they generate back to the grid.
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Microsoft said it is adding a button to its Windows keyboard that would pull up the tech giant's Copilot service, in the first change for the device in nearly three decades.
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
The first SpaceX launch of 2024, which took place Tuesday night, included something that none of the company’s prior launches did.
Friday, December 29, 2023
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - The U.S. military's secretive X-37B robot spaceplane blasted off from Florida on Thursday night on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before.
Thursday, December 28, 2023
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday over the tech companies' use of its copyrighted articles to train their artificial intelligence technology, joining a growing wave of opposition to the tech industry's using creative work without paying for it or getting permission.
One day after a ban on the import and sale of its two newest Apple Watches became official, Apple managed to buy itself some time.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Apple on Tuesday appealed a decision to ban imports of its watches based on a complaint from medical monitoring technology company Masimo, after U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration declined to veto a government tribunal.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Artificial intelligence programs can’t be named as an inventor for patents, the U.K.’s top court said in a crucial ruling refusing to put machines on a near-equal footing with humans.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Google has agreed to pay $700 million and allow more competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with U.S. states and consumers, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Bankrupt pharmacy chain Rite Aid will be prohibited from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges it harmed consumers, the FTC said on Tuesday.
Apple is pulling two of its most popular watch models from shelves this week. By Christmas Day, if a trade ruling stands, those watches will be illegal to import into the U.S.
As he was packing up his Nebraska video game store more than two decades ago, Mark Odorisio considered what to do with the hundreds of games that had not even made it onto the shelves before the business closed. His best options were to hold a sale for the leftover games or to store them for…
Monday, December 18, 2023
WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin called off a return-to-flight mission with its suborbital New Shepard rocket in Texas over what it described as a ground system issue encountered during preparations for liftoff, the company said.
Scientists rely on an array of multimillion-dollar weather satellites to determine when and where rain turns into snow in the Nevada mountains.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has called for a legally binding international treaty to regulate artificial intelligence, saying algorithms must not be allowed to replace human values and warning of a "technological dictatorship" threatening human existence.
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Bros.
It looks like a poster for a new Pixar movie. But the film's title is "Dancing Israelis." Billing the film as "a Mossad/CIA production," the poster depicts a caricatured stereotype of a dancing Jewish man whose boot is knocking down the World Trade Center towers - a reference to antisemitic …
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
In a show of multilateralism, the Commerce Department on Monday skipped over Silicon Valley companies and picked U.K. defense contractor BAE Systems to receive the first grant from the Biden administration's $52 billion mega-pot of funds to revitalize semiconductor manufacturing in the Unite…
Maine's medical examiner has sent part of Lewiston mass shooter Robert Card's brain to a lab in Boston to look for signs of injury — possibly connected to his military service — that could have played a role in his sudden and violent shift in behavior.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Apple Inc., seeking to reverse a decline in Mac and iPad sales, is preparing several new models and upgrades for early next year, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Microsoft is cutting around 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, news website The Verge reported on Thursday, citing an internal memo from the head of the company's gaming division.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, acknowledging that he was the victim of a deepfake photo, on Wednesday warned against the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence, renewing a call for its worldwide regulation to harness it for the common good.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
WASHINGTON -- Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their "Doomsday Clock" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed Israel's Gaza war and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe.
Friday, January 19, 2024
LONDON — A 'jellyfish' UFO sighted flying over a US military base in Iraq has "haunted" forces for years, a former Marine has revealed.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The world’s largest deep-sea coral reef has been discovered off the East Coast: a massive 6.4 million acre seascape that stretches from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Exploration.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Elon Musk leaned on Tesla Inc.'s board to arrange another massive performance award for him after he sold a significant chunk of his stake in the company to acquire Twitter.
Monday, January 15, 2024
WASHINGTON — Rep. Eric Burlison wants to know the truth about aliens.