Most of us are guilty of romanticizing the past. Do you long to be the captain of a tall ship? Just as long as you don’t mind weevils in your food, vitamin deficiencies, and death from an infection when there were no antibiotics. Want to be a medieval knight? Even...

Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

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The current AI market doesn't add up. US hyperscalers have reportedly taken on $220 billion in debt in the past year. The two leading US frontier AI model makers have not yet shown they can operate profitably. And the US public has begun pushing back against the...

Cutwater, one of the fastest-growing brands in the spirits industry, is approaching a major milestone: $1 billion in annual sales. Revenue growth for the ready-to-drink canned cocktails, which come in two dozen different vodka, tequila, whiskey, gin, and rum...

Concerns over the potential risks of the technology are rising as new AI models become more powerful, heightening both the potential for misuse by people with criminal aims. The post New Warnings About the Risks of AI to Humanity Revive a Long-Running Debate appeared...

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Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today made its threat detection feed and agentic artificial intelligence tools available inside Crisis24 Horizon, the integrated risk management platform sold by Crisis24 Inc. The two companies unveiled the...

Huawei wants near-packaged optics (NPO) standardized for AI networks, pitching it as a replacement for conventional pluggable modules without the cost and maintenance headaches it attributes to co-packaged optics. The Chinese tech giant showcased an NPO module with a...

UK lawmakers want an AI watchdog with the teeth to stop potentially dangerous systems reaching the public, warning that existing rules leave people exposed and struggling to hold anyone accountable. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) – comprising MPs and peers...

Microsoft has confirmed that its latest security updates can disrupt Remote Desktop Services, silence some USB audio devices, and break pasting in Excel. September's Windows patches hardly support Microsoft's insistence that it is sorting out quality. The known issues...

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Today, Apple releases iOS 27, its new operating system for the iPhone. The software has been in beta testing since June, and early users have generally praised it for improved speed and stability. But the headline feature for iOS 27 is, of course, artificial...

For years, the crypto conversation has been dominated by headlines, hype, and hot takes. But ask the people who use it what would increase their trust, and a very different picture emerges. The National Cryptocurrency Association’s 2026 State of Crypto Holders Report,...

Governments ultimately deliver outcomes through thousands of people making decisions at local government, nonprofits, and service provider organizations. Technical assistance is how those decisions improve over time. In theory, technical assistance is simple: make...

For better or worse, AI agents are now a part of the workforce. They write code, analyze documents, respond to customers, coordinate workflows, and make decisions across multiple business systems with very little human involvement.  AI agents have proven they can do...

Somewhere in America, a physician is trying to reconstruct where their patient has been for the last six months. A hospital admission in March, a discharge to a rehabilitation facility, and then the specialist follow-up that may or may not have happened, with a...

Building a large solar farm typically takes years, thanks to permitting and grid connection delays. But a startup called Resilience Energy is rolling out a faster way to add clean energy: It pays to install solar and batteries across a network of homes, then sells...

There's a lot of noise around AI and cybersecurity right now. What’s actually important is far simpler, if often lost in the hubbub. Vulnerability discovery is getting faster and happening at a much greater scale, while defenders still have to work out which findings...