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Mordechai Guri at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev transmitted stolen data from a personal computer by manipulating the device's power supply.
Siemens has been working with clothing companies on efforts to automate apparel manufacturing.
A researcher plumbs reconfigurable quantum circuits for high-performance computers and cellphones.
U.S. nuclear scientists have achieved the long-sought goal of a fusion ignition — but don't expect this clean technology to power the grid yet.
They have blocked traffic, driven on the sidewalk, sped away from cops — and the city is powerless to stop them.
National nonprofits and organizations unite efforts to boost Hispanic representation in computer science.
Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers were part of a team that built a new system to simplify the process of designing fluidic devices.
PayScale's annual ranking of the highest-paying college majors ranks electrical engineering and computer science at No. 1.
Adobe gave permission to the Computer History Museum to release the source code for an early version of its PostScript programming language, first released in 1984.
The action comes the same day Twitter moved to boost its revenue not linked to digital advertising by reintroducing a paid-for subscription service that would show fewer ads.
But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk envisions with such devices, is considered far into the future, if at all.
The company, Ispace, is carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, a Japanese robot, and other cargo in its bid to possibly be the first commercial lander to reach the moon.
AI trained on reams of geological data can indicate where to dig in search of metals crucial to electric cars and other green technology.
The company says Moore's Law still has a good 6-8 years of life, thanks to next-generation transistor technologies.
Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.
DeepMind's AlphaCode model performed well against human coders in a programming competition.
University of Georgia (UGA) scientists have created an ear recognition system that can authenticate individuals with up to 97.25% accuracy.
Researchers manipulated silver atoms into a lattice configuration via deep reinforcement learning, a critical advance for nanodevice construction.
Plus: Chinese hackers stealing U.S. Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more.
Microsoft agrees multi-cloud strategy is "the right one" for U.S. Defense Department.
University of Chicago researchers reduced the rate of catastrophic quantum computing errors attributable to cosmic rays from about once every 10 seconds to once every 51 days.
Researchers at the NASA Langley Research Center have developed a LiDAR technique to improve the safety of robotic vehicle landings during future Mars or lunar missions.
Scientists have engineered a scaled-up probabilistic computer (p-computer) with stochastic spintronic devices.
A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails.
The market for commercial spyware — which allows governments to invade mobile phones and vacuum up data — is booming. Even the U.S. government is using it.
The ethics of neurotechnology lags behind the science.
The city rolled back a controversial decision to let robots use lethal force without human intervention. But the fight is far from over.
The age of "boring AI" will be anything but.
The lawsuit marks FTC chair Lina Khan's most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft's gaming ambitions.