The first day of Apple’s annual WWDC developer conference is over, with the company announcing iOS 16 for the iPhone, as well as software updates for the Apple Watch, Mac and iPad. The developer conference is off to an interesting start with a long list of features coming to the […]
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Mining valuable insights from diamonds | MIT News
If Changhao Li were to trace the origins of his love of nature, he would point to the time when he was 9, observing the night sky from his childhood home in the small town of Jinan, China. “At that moment I felt that nature is so beautiful, I just […]
Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient
SAN FRANCISCO — Google placed an engineer on paid leave recently after dismissing his claim that its artificial intelligence is sentient, surfacing yet another fracas about the company’s most advanced technology. Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer in Google’s Responsible A.I. organization, said in an interview that he was put […]
This tiny ‘crab’ is the world’s smallest remote-controlled robot
Engineers at Northwestern University have built a half millimeter-wide remote-controlled robot that can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and jump. What’s more, the crab-shaped robot does all of this without any actuators, motors, hydraulics or electricity. The world’s smallest remote-controlled robot is controlled using lasers. The engineers built it using […]
EU clinches world first deal on single mobile charging port | Technology News
Move means most mobile phones, tablets and cameras will be required to have a USB Type-C charging port from late 2024. European Union member states and legislators have agreed to mandate a single mobile charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras in a blow to technology giant Apple. Tuesday’s […]
Stocks close rollercoaster week lower as technology shares lag
U.S. stocks fell on Friday and ended the week lower as investors took in a key report on the state of the labor market’s recovery, which underscored still-solid labor market conditions. Friday’s losses extended steep declines from the prior session, when concerns over the Federal Reserve’s ability to bring down […]
Enjoy Technology Sees Cash Dwindle
Enjoy Technology, a venture-backed mobile retail upstart that went public via SPAC last fall, announced it has “initiated a review of strategic alternatives” as it anticipates existing cash resources will not be enough to fund the business beyond next month. Launched in 2014 and backed by a number of prominent […]
US Army terminates science and technology effort for strategic long-range cannon
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has decided to cancel the science and technology research effort that could have led to a program to develop a strategic long-range cannon, the service confirmed. Long-range precision fires is a top priority for the Army when it comes to developing a modernized force capable […]
Cryptocurrencies were once seen as an unmitigated boon for criminals. Not anymore.
When a California man was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of cryptocurrency this year by a fake romance, Erin West was able to track and freeze the money. West, a deputy district attorney who heads the high technology crimes unit in Santa Clara County, said she believes […]
Living better with algorithms | MIT News
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) student Sarah Cen remembers the lecture that sent her down the track to an upstream question. At a talk on ethical artificial intelligence, the speaker brought up a variation on the famous trolley problem, which outlines a philosophical choice between two undesirable outcomes. […]