For three weeks, Portugal will host Ukrainian mothers, children and relatives of soldiers who have died or are missing in action, to give them "an experience of normality", in what was hailed by the g...
After evaluating scans of almost 5,800 children with and without attention deficit disorder, US researchers discovered that commonly prescribed ADHD medications don't primarily activate the brain's at...
Billionaire’s xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material...
The service is available for institutional clients through an in-house permissioned blockchain, BNY said on Friday....
Ukraine is investigating Russia’s use of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile against civilian infrastructure as a war crime, as the UK, Germany and France called the attack “unacceptable”....
In an interview published on Thursday, Trump also suggested that NATO is toothless without the US, claiming his own morality guided his decisions on US military actions....
Detroit-based carmaker says it ‘proactively reduced EV capacity’...
Elon Musk’s AI Grok has been fiercely criticised in recent days, after the chatbot began generating sexualised images of women and girls, flooding the app with explicit content. Some of the images inv...
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Deadly fighting between Kurdish forces and Syria's national army in Aleppo has led to new widespread displacement. As thousands flee amid shelling, can US, Turkish, and UN mediators stop a full-scale ...
It's harder than ever for a new video game to crack the top of the most-played list. According to the Circana Player Engagement Tracker and video game market analyst Mat Piscatella, in 2025, the top f...
New TVs from TCL and Hisense, like the TCL X11L, are closing the performance gap to those from Sony, LG, and Samsung. For all the time that I've been covering technology, there's been a hierarchy when...
Tighter regulations, advancing AI integration, and a desire for greater authenticity will continue to re-shape what social media means in an increasingly disconnected world....
Character.AI and Google are entering settlement negotiations with the families of teenagers who died by suicide. Illustration by Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google and C...
Robert F Kennedy Jr accuses past administrations of ‘lying’ to the public ‘to protect corporate profit-taking’...
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Major banks are beating down the doors to get into the crypto game, and Morgan Stanley just became the first major player to make an ETF move....
January 7 marks one year since the most destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area in California. It killed 31 people and destroyed about 13,000 homes and other residential properties. To improve i...
The raise comes as xAI faces mounting international regulatory scrutiny over Grok's content moderation practices....