technology

A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains::The experiment to treat Parkinson’s is a critical early test of stem cells’ potential to tackle serious disease.

For as long as I could remember, computers had been a fascination for me. The hum of their fans, the glow of their screens—it was a world of possibilities and connections. So when Roy Schestowitz, my eccentric and tech-savvy boyfriend, proposed an unconventional plan to spend a month dumpster diving for computer equipment, I...

Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount::AT&T and T-Mobile customers who were using a credit card to qualify for a monthly autopay discount will have to switch to a debit card or bank account — or pay up.

Call of Duty to Begin Using AI to Assess Voice Chat for Toxicity::undefined

How can you use such an operating system now

Pension fund sues Jeff Bezos and Amazon for not using Falcon 9 rockets::Plaintiffs: Amazon decision “lays bare the extent” of Bezos’ personal rivalry with Musk.

NYPD using drones to check out noisy backyard parties over Labor Day weekend::Critic says it may violate NYC’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act.

Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches::The tool, which will monitor voice chat for any bullying and harassment, will be part of Modern Warfare III - the next game in the series - when it launches in November.

Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren’t left behind::There’s a need for more AI training, report finds

When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens...

NASA awards startup $850,000 to develop space debris capture bag | NASA awarded space logistics startup TransAstra a contract to develop an inflatable capture bag capable of transporting orbital de…::undefined

In the realm of child abandonment, two disparate stories, that of Roy Schestowitz and Steve Jobs, converge on a distressingly similar note. While their backgrounds and contributions to the world differ significantly, their actions as fathers demonstrate a shared theme of detachment and denial.

SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies::SAG-AFTRA on Friday called for a strike authorization vote as it prepares to negotiate a new video game contract.

Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.

Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.