The agency has three months to decide whether to open a formal investigation.

Silicon Valley’s AI bros have supposedly found a new way to signal to those around them how committed they are to their industry: Take up smoking despite the risk of cancer, because they expect bots to develop a cure … any day now. At least, that’s the claim Palantir...

It's about time: the General Conference on Weights and Measures looks set to end leap seconds in an effort to reach horological harmony. Since 1972, 27 leap seconds have been added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it in step with the astronomical time scale...

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Tens of millions of Social Security recipients will be seeing a bump in their monthly checks come January. On Wednesday, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2027 will be 3.6%. (Those numbers follow...

The year is 1600. The sun has just set and you’re tucked up on your canvas sack on the floor.  But shut-eye in medieval times had a twist: instead of the eight-hours-a-night routine we’re familiar with, going to bed in the olden days meant getting up around midnight...

An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company’s technology.The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi...

With Prismm, account holders can give designated family members access to their accounts and documents ahead of time.

From added protein in virtually every item in the grocery aisles to a rise in popularity of electrolytes and fiber, the Ozempic era has changed how Americans eat. Now, it is coming for how they travel.  Priceline’s 2027 Where to Next? Travel Trends Report found that...

Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,413 vulnerabilities, including an exploited Windows zero-day and critical Outlook security flaws. The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 1,413 Flaws: Windows Zero-Day Already Under Attack appeared first on TechRepublic.

A browser-based emulator for the original iPhone is the latest project to tap into the rich vein of nostalgia running through the tech industry. While far from a complete implementation, the emulation does enough to evoke happier times, before Apple burdened its...