Month: May 2022

This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. If an adversary gives you a machine learning model and secretly plants a malicious backdoor in it, what are the chances…

If you want to find your dream job, you need to stand out from the crowd. It’s not enough to meet the job requirements, have a decent CV, and a few good…

Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more new kinds of aviation vehicles come on the market, from flyboards to flying motorbikes to eVTOLs. So when we saw a video…

Sorry if this triggers your anxiety: remember how we once had to charge our phones overnight so they were ready for action the next day? It took hours to charge devices from…

Parks, small woodlands and even simple patches of grass not only keep a city attractive, but also help people find a sense of bliss in an otherwise bustling urban environment. With new…

Omar Sultan Al Olama, the United Arab Emirates minister of artificial intelligence, yesterday told an audience at the World Economic forum in Davos that it’s his belief that people who commit “serious…

DuckDuckGo’s reputation for protecting privacy has taken a hit after revelations emerged of a tracking deal with Microsoft. Security researcher Zack Edwards this week revealed that DuckDuckGo’s mobile browsers allow some Microsoft…

The road to hell is paved with good intentions — or, as you may call them, “cookie pop-ups.” The pop-ups have scarred the internet since the EU made them mandatory for most…

For a long time, we’ve been hearing that cobalt is terrible. Its mining is linked to child labor, environmental damage, and loss of habitat to local wildlife — and its use is…

By: Todd Feathers and Alfred Ng In late 2019, Utah state senator Kirk Cullimore got a phone call from one of his constituents, a lawyer who represented technology companies in California. “He…