In 2018, I was sitting at my desk at Alibaba’s Hangzhou headquarters at 10 PM during Double 11, China’s equivalent of Black Friday, when an engineer pulled me into a dimly lit conference room. What he ...

If you grew up during the peak of the 2000s internet, you probably remember “Emo Queens” with neon hair and dramatic side-swept bangs. They seemed to dominate every corner of Myspace even when calling ...

Such technology has reshaped modern warfare in recent years, making it easier and cheaper to attack and more difficult and ...

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models.

CNET's TechPulse survey found that most US adults (67%) say one tech setback is enough to derail their lives, such as an app crash, a cracked screen or a network outage. Anna Gragert, CNET's wellness ...

The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

Arriving on the heels of OpenClaw, Computer is described as "a general-purpose digital worker" that can work on tasks for months in the background.

By January 2026, the American office had not been transformed into a sci-fi movie set. You will not find hovering ...

Science’s success at staving off death from heart disease or cancer has made another diagnosis more likely: Dementia.

In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a ...

Imagine trying to design a key for a lock that is constantly changing its shape. That is the exact challenge we face in ...

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...