Five years ago, the automotive industry appeared poised for frenetic growth, with global carmakers snapping up autonomous driving startups for billions of dollars and making rosy promises to go fully electric. Then the COVID-19 pandemic stalled the roseate advance toward a greener, more Jetsons-esque streetscape.
During the resulting fallout, many companies working on battery-electric or self-driving technology, including Ford’s Argo AI and General Motors’ Cruise subsi
Warnings about deepfakes and disinformation fueled by artificial intelligence. Concerns about campaigns and candidates using social media to spread lies about elections. Fears that tech companies will fail to address these issues as their platforms are used to undermine democracy ahead of pivotal elections.
Those are the worries facing elections in the U.S., where most voters speak English. But for languages like Spanish, or in dozens of nations where English isn’t the domina
Meta announced this month that in August it will be closing CrowdTangle, the platform monitoring tool the company bought in 2016. The tool, which tracks the top performing links posted on Meta’s platforms, has been deprioritized by Meta for years and victim of various internal reorganizing efforts.
Meta says that CrowdTangle will be replaced by two new tools, Meta Content Library and Content Library API, which the company says “provide useful, high-quality data to
Olin Pickens sat in his wheelchair facing a life-size image of himself on a screen, asking it questions about being taken prisoner by German soldiers during World War II. After a pause, his video-recorded twin recalled being given “sauerkraut soup” by his captors before a grueling march.
“That was a Tuesday morning, February the 16th,” Pickens’s on-screen likeness answered. “And so we started marching. We’d walk four hours, then we&#x
Americans from Maine to Texas are set for a rare treat on April 8, 2024, when a total solar eclipse will be visible across much of the U.S.
In ancient times, eclipse-viewers thought they were watching the sun be eaten by wolves, a dragon, or a demon.
Of course, we now know that the sun isn’t really eaten during an eclipse. Instead, it does what it always does: rain ultraviolet rays on everything in its path. That’s why you should never look at a solar eclipse witho
Plastic plays a critical role in virtually all industries, from agriculture and construction to healthcare and manufacturing. Time magazine has called plastic one of the four materials (along with cement, steel, and ammonia) without which modern societies would not be possible. However, as global production of this cheap, lightweight, and highly versatile material doubled during the past two decades, plastic consumption grew even faster, according to the OECD, creating significant sustainabil
Pity the die-hard Star Wars fan. It used to be so easy for them to identify where the series purportedly went wrong. One could summarize it in two simple words: the prequels. At this point, however, the franchise has zoomed out to a galaxy far, far beyond the original trilogy, or even the original trilogy of trilogies, to the point where some of its prequels now have prequels. (And the generation of kids who grew up watching the prequel trilogy have since reclaimed it.)
Of all the e
War in Ukraine has pushed women into more leadership roles in its growing tech sector, where they are gaining experience and contacts abroad that could help rebuild the economy when the conflict ends, some entrepreneurs, companies, and investors say.
With most men unable to leave Ukraine, women tech entrepreneurs like Anna Lissova, 30, who runs mental health startup Pleso Therapy, have taken charge of raising funds, finding new clients abroad and embracing other key roles.
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Kate Middleton announced on Friday she has been diagnosed with cancer. In a video statement published simultaneously across social and traditional media, Middleton explained that traces of cancer had been discovered following abdominal surgery earlier this year.
The statement is an intensely personal one—and one that the Princess of Wales may well have felt she had to make by dint of her status as the U.K.’s queen-in-waiting. But the last few weeks of social media hyst
It’ll likely take years before the U.S. government’s massive antitrust lawsuit against Apple is resolved—but the iPhone maker’s troubles with European regulators offer a glimpse of what changes American customers may see down the line.The U.S. lawsuit seeks to stop Apple from undermining technologies that compete with its own apps in areas such as streaming, messaging, and digital payments. The Department of Justice also wants to prevent the tech giant from buildin