Technology

Emma Unson Rotor worked on the proximity fuze, a groundbreaking piece of World War II weapons technology that the U.S. War Department called “second only to the atomic bomb.”

Here’s how to buy ethical tech and keep conflict minerals in the ground

A new technology called AntiFake prevents the theft of the sound of your voice by making it more difficult for AI tools to analyze vocal recordings

Whatever fantasies we may have had about the nonprofit structure of OpenAI have been eviscerated. While it remains a nonprofit, it’s proven entirely beholden to ruthless capitalism

For the first time, researchers have used sound waves to 3-D print an object from a distance—even with a wall in the way

Thanks to researchers, new AI tech is delving into feline feelings to see when cats could need medical help. 

Machine-learning software gets behind the inscrutable feline face and may improve pet care

To understand how AI is contributing to climate change, look at the way it’s being used

AI chatbots can convince other chatbots to instruct users how to build bombs and cook meth

The company announces its latest huge chip—but will now focus on developing smaller chips with a fresh approach to “error correction”

The potential of geothermal energy as a carbon-free power source is well known. Now companies such as Google are helping to unlock it

As humans encroach on polar bear habitats, new tools such as drone-mounted radar can prevent us from disrupting the hidden dens where bears give birth