One of the world's most popular gaming platforms has faced criticism for its child safety record.

Constellation Energy will use the loan to refurbish a reactor it idled in 2019. Microsoft has agreed to buy the power once the facility reopens in 2028.

Taking a page from Big Tech, legacy industries, and their U.S. peers, European tech companies are increasingly learning to lobby for themselves.

Shares in the firm behind the highly-addictive children's song rose by more than 9% in their stock market debut.

Hewlett-Packard is seeking payment from the estate of Mike Lynch, who died when his yacht sank last year.

The permit is the final regulatory step to launch a robotaxi service in Arizona, a state that has become a hub of autonomous vehicle technology testing and development.

Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue says all the attention is on LLMs, but smaller, specialized models will make sense in many use cases going forward.

The decision allows Instagram's parent company to avoid the prospect of the company breaking up

Lambda's new raise was a solid beat over the amount that deal-watchers say it was hoping to hit.

A federal judge ruled that Meta is not a monopoly in a lawsuit with the FTC.

Burks Tractor, a dealership located in Idaho, has sued Monarch for breach of contract and allegedly violating its warranty because the California-based startup's tractors were "unable to operate autonomously." The dealership also says the 10 tractors it purchased "continue to experience significant ...

Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers ...

The investment follows an announcement last week that Toyota will spend up to $10 billion over the next five years in the United States.

Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.

Seventh Chrome 0-day this year Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.…

Quora's AI platform Poe now lets users engage in group chats with up to 200 people across AI models and bots.

Venture funds have longer timelines than anyone planned for, compelling LPs to rip up and rebuild their allocation models.

Sphere helps automate registration, calculation, filing, and remittance obligations for companies. “We help companies collect tax on customer transactions,” Nicholas Rudder said, explaining that companies have to collect tax on purchases and remit it to authorities each month or quarter. 

In a year that again saw AI assistants and tools climb the app store charts over and over, it's interesting to see a timer that helps you disconnect from your tech winning Google's highest app award.

Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.

"We apologise to our customers and the Internet in general" the web infrastructure company said.

The social network says the new feature will let users chat about what’s happening in the world and across various communities, from Formula 1 to the reality TV show "Below Deck."

Rutgers scientists found that metformin can blunt many of the metabolic and cardiovascular improvements normally produced by exercise. Participants who took the drug saw reduced gains in fitness, blood vessel function, and glucose control. The interference may stem from how metformin affects mitocho...

The Indian edtech startup ended its first day as a public company on a high, with its shares closing 44% higher than they were listed for, indicating that the country's edtech sector may still recover after years of gloom.

An outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare took down several big websites and services, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X.

Waymo said it will do the same in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando in the coming weeks -- the latest steps in the company's continued expansion across the U.S.

Chronic kidney disease has surged to nearly 800 million cases and is now among the top causes of death worldwide. The condition is heavily linked to diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, and often goes unnoticed until late stages. Many countries lack access to dialysis and transplants, leaving millio...

Scientists have revealed that Hawaiian monk seals produce far more underwater vocalizations than previously believed. Their newly discovered 25-call repertoire includes complex combinations and a rare foraging-related call. These findings highlight an intricate acoustic world unfolding beneath the w...

Gui Junmin froze his dead spouse as a sign of his devotion - but it's now emerged he is dating again.

Agentio, which matches creators with brands, is expanding beyond YouTube and testing Meta platforms to facilitate sponsored content.

Instead of getting an AI-generated travel plan, Boop aims to give users access to itineraries from real people who went on real trips. 

Stack Overflow wants to remake its classic problem-solving forum into a tool for translating human expertise into an AI-accessible format.

Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new models provide sharper insights into subsurface conditions that future landers may one day probe directly.

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In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.

Scientists discovered that alcohol activates a sugar-producing pathway in the body, creating fructose that may reinforce addictive drinking. The enzyme responsible, KHK, appears to drive both alcohol cravings and liver injury. When this enzyme was blocked in mice, their drinking decreased and their ...

Scientists are turning venom, radioisotopes, engineered proteins, and AI into powerful new tools against cancer. From Amazonian scorpions yielding molecules that kill breast cancer cells as effectively as chemotherapy, to improved fibrin sealants and custom-grown bioactive factors, researchers are p...

Researchers developed a new nano-micelle formulation, CBD-IN, that finally gets CBD into the brain effectively. In mice, it relieved neuropathic pain quickly and didn’t cause the usual movement or memory side effects. Surprisingly, the pain relief didn’t use typical cannabinoid receptors, instea...

Scientists built a tiny clock from single-electron jumps to probe the true energy cost of quantum timekeeping. They discovered that reading the clock’s output requires vastly more energy than the clock uses to function. This measurement process also drives the irreversibility that defines time’s...

Saving System has developed a device that it says can help firms save electricity.

Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…

Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the ...

Our manufacturer is having trouble with a wooden knife handle that gets riveted to a steel blade. The diameters of the holes are fine (checked with Go/No-Go pin gauges), but the spacing between the holes is inconsistent. My suspicion is that humidity and temperature are causing the wood and steel to...

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I need to be able to do both flow modeling, and discrete systems… basically the arrival of trucks to load and unload liquid materials into a tank. ChatGPT told me that AnyLogic is the best-suited software for that type of model. What do you all think?   submitted by   /u/Balvin_Janders ...

Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fuele...

Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The structure reveals rare whisker-collar features and distant evolutionary ties reaching back billions of years. These insights could guide new phage therapies and innovations in m...

Hi everyone, As an Electrical engineer myself, now in software (shame on me I know), I constantly see gaps between management wishes and hopes about AI the ground reality. I remain cautiously optimistic about AI making engineers live easier, if well done and focusing on the right problems. A recent...

During years of scarce fish, African penguins crowd into the same areas as commercial fishing vessels, heightening competition for dwindling prey. A new metric called “overlap intensity” shows how many penguins are affected and is already shaping improved conservation policies.

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes. The system captures both detailed structures and tiny moving particles at once, providing a more complete view of cellular behavior. Its creators tested it by analyzing changes ...