If content creators and corporate executives made TikTok videos about the platform’s possible U.S. demise, disco diva Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” could supply the soundtrack. S...
Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSa...
The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous. “OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said...
The number of people using X daily is falling, more than a year after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the app formerly known as Twitter. Data from two research firms and figures published ...
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Donald Trump ‘s return to the stock market could be right around the corner. All eyes are on a vote scheduled for Friday by shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed a landmark lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, accusing it of monopolizing the smartphone market. The civil suit, joined by attorneys general for 15 states ...
Neuralink streamed a live video on Wednesday that showed a patient using the company’s brain implant to move a mouse and play chess on a computer. Noland Arbaugh, 29, is the first human patien...
An interactive exhibit opening Wednesday at the National WWII Museum will use artificial intelligence to let visitors hold virtual conversations with images of veterans, including a Medal of Hon...
Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, said that the two companies “are in active negotiations” for Gemini to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year. App...
TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position as lawmakers in Washington move forward with a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban on the platform. The House on Wednesday passed ...
Don’t be surprised if your doctors start writing you overly friendly messages. They could be getting some help from artificial intelligence. New AI tools are helping doctors communicate with ...
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. In a survey published ...
Thousands of TikTok users, many of whom say they’ve built entire livelihoods and communities on the app, are responding to the company’s plea to #KeepTikTok by urging against its potential b...
TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position. This time, it comes in the form of legislation that would ban the popular social media platform if it doesn’t break ties with ByteD...
A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China , the Justic...
Nearly a year after TikTok’s CEO was grilled on Capitol Hill, House Republicans and Democrats are joining together on legislation that would force its parent company, China-based ByteDance, to...
The Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile show, is a place where device makers show off some of their latest innovations. Artificial intelligence took center stage, but there was a...
Long hailed as an impossibility, harnessing nuclear fusion to power homes, businesses, cars and even airplanes is now widely viewed by scientists and engineers as a very real prospect that would ...
With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters, according to a report published Tue...
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its latest wearable, is launching with tracking features including heart rate and sleep monitoring. Hon Pak, the head of the digital health team and Samsung Electronics,...
Chinese tech giant Lenovo showed off a prototype laptop on Monday that has a see-through screen. The technology is similar to augmented reality in some senses. AR has been popularized by glasses...
Honor on Sunday showed off technology that allows a user to control a car just by using their eyes. Honor demonstrated eye-tracking technology in the Magic 6 Pro as it launched the device into i...
HMD, short for Human Mobile Devices, says it is launching a Barbie flip phone this summer, in a partnership with toy maker Mattel. It won’t be connected to the internet, making it a throwback ...
Artificial intelligence phones: these are the buzzwords you’ll likely hear this year, as smartphone players look to jump on the AI hype to boost sales of their devices after a difficult stretc...
AT&T said the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network Thursday appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack. The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousa...
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An AT&T outage on Thursday led many cellphone users to look for calling alternatives. The company advised customers to access Wi-Fi communications, but iPhone users without service or internet...
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Smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar levels for medical purposes without piercing the skin could be dangerous and should be avoided, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration war...
There are more than 13 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connected products deployed with the potential to behave as customers and Gartner forecasts that number will rise to 15 billion by 2028. C...
Apple announced a free new app for tracking sports scores on Wednesday, its latest effort to become a major provider of sports content and news. Apple Sports does one thing well: show sports sco...
The Apple Vision Pro augmented reality headset has become one of the most talked-about gadgets around, but police are warning users to continue to cross the street the old-fashioned way. The Sa...
If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish blacksmith to forge a virtual sword, you might be hearing the voice of actor Andy Magee. Ex...
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The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands. San Francisco-base...
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A few months ago, Derek Carrier started seeing someone and became infatuated. He experienced a “ton” of romantic feelings but he also knew it was an illusion. That’s because his girlfri...
The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Tuesday that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the ...
Elon Musk has to testify in a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning his 2022 acquisition of Twitter, a U.S. judge ordered in a court filing out Saturday. The federal re...
The Biden administration on Friday announced the investment of $5 billion in a newly established public-private consortium aimed at supporting research and development in advanced computer chips...
The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to name a top White House aide as the director of the newly established safety institute for artificial intelligence , according to an administration o...
Amazon on Thursday announced Rufus, a shopping assistant that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users search for products. CEO Andy Jassy has said the company plans to incorporate ...
When Mark Zuckerberg turned at a Senate hearing to address the parents of children exploited, bullied or driven to self harm via social media, it felt like a time-worn convention had sprung back ...
Tech CEOs are set to testify Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee about child safety issues on social media platforms and will offer rare policy commitments and regulatory endorsements, c...
Elon Musk said his computer-brain interface company Neuralink implanted a chip in a human brain for the first time on Sunday. In a Monday post on X , the platform formerly known as Twitter, Mu...
You’re in a crowded bar when a thief watches you unlock your iPhone with your passcode, then swipes it. That sinking feeling hits when you realize it’s gone, along with priceless photos, impo...
A new legal filing alleges a 2021 Meta internal estimate found as many as 100,000 children every day received sexual harassment on Facebook and Instagram. The filing is part of a complaint by th...
OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education institution. Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to us...
Anyone can ask ChatGPT to answer a question or perform a task. But the popular chatbot is particularly useful for workers in three specific industries, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “Co...
Nonconsensual deepfake pornography is just a click away on popular search engines like Google and Microsoft’s Bing. Deepfake pornography often grafts a person’s face into a real pornographi...
Your next trip to Sam’s Club may not end with someone checking your receipt. The club store announced on Tuesday that it is introducing a new technology powered by A.I. to provide a seamless...
Touchscreens are going hands-free with a new device that allows users to scroll through smartphones using only their tongues. MouthPad^, a retainer-like trackpad chip that sits on the roof of t...
Meta said Tuesday it will start hiding inappropriate content from teenagers’ accounts on Instagram and Facebook , including posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The social m...
Honda Motor revealed two concept cars as a preview for a new lineup of electrified vehicles that will begin arriving in North America in 2026. The concept models are called the “Space-Hub” a...