Gender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterparts

Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.

Voters are already voting in the midterms. This year, some voters are trying something new to get ready for the election: asking AI to help research their ballot and even decide who to vote for.

Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

It took 139 years to understand what caused the mysterious “Angel’s Glow” at the Battle of Shiloh.

Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.

Officials responsible for leading US research on infectious disease threats have been barred from speaking directly with the World Health Organization – effectively shutting them out of global…

New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

Pew research shows Americans are more worried than excited about AI as graduates voiced fears over jobs

For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private…

An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.

"I don't think a normal person actually realizes that this happened or how dramatic it was."

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

AI inference emerges as a critical factor in tech compensation, impacting engineer productivity and Silicon Valley hiring dynamics.

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS”…

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

Until President Donald Trump's return a year ago, when the EU talked about cutting economic dependency on foreign powers -- it was understood to mean China. But now Brussels has US tech in its sights.

European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives

A one-hit wonder is never enough.

Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is using the censorship of Plato from his course syllabus to teach his students about freedom of speech

Glitches during face-to-face video calls – even when the glitch does not affect the transmission of information – can shatter the illusion of being across the table from the other person, evoking…

Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead

OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago.

Democrats will have to repair the damage

A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.

Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

To the lawmakers in Congress who seem to be stuck on Reagan-era myths about the people who rely on food stamps, here’s an idea: Let’s reframe the idea of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…

The Oregon Department of Human Services announced that people who receive SNAP food assistance would receive 100% of their November benefits on Friday.

A team of scientists is employing a technique used to detect invasive species to search for troops lost at sea.

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September

US consumers say price rises caused by president’s tariffs contradicts his promise to make life more affordable

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

For the first time since the Henley Passport Index was created 20 years ago, the United States is no longer ranked amongst the world’s Top 10 most powerful passports.