It’s the middle of February, and the air is dry. There are fine lines emerging on my forehead, maybe because I don’t moisturize enough, but maybe as a harbinger of something greater: Each day I grow closer to my own death. I will never be younger than I am right …

It still feels like a technological marvel: Waymo’s autonomous cars are now transporting passengers across six cities. Alas, this driverless future comes with its own set of problems. These vehicles can be rendered inert if a passenger accidentally leaves the door open. According to a Reddit post, one DoorDash driver …

Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve as the foundation of a grid-scale power plant the fusion startup intends to start construction on in 2030. Inertia Enterprises is building on technology developed at the Lawrence Livermore National …

UpScrolled, a social network that caught fire after TikTok’s ownership change in the U. , is facing a serious moderation problem. After growing to more than 2. 5 million users in January, users have reported the app is not taking action on the creation of usernames and hashtags that contain …

For 24 years, Microsoft’s Amanda Silver has been working to help developers — and in the last few years, that’s meant building tools for AI. After a long stretch on GitHub Copilot, Silver is now a corporate vice president at Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying …

Google on Wednesday released the first beta of Android 17, which brings performance improvements and a way to add new features to media and camera apps. Most importantly, it’s changing how developers get access to new APIs and features of the latest version. With this release, the company is ditching …

Threads is introducing an AI-powered feature that lets users personalize their feed, the Meta-owned social network announced on Wednesday. The platform’s new “Dear Algo” feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed. To use the feature, users need to type …

In a sense, this whole thing was inevitable. Elon Musk and his coterie have been talking about AI in space for years — mainly in the context of Iain Banks’ science-fiction series about a far-future universe where sentient spaceships roam and control the galaxy. Now Musk sees an opportunity to …

The former boss of a U. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers and people worldwide, U. prosecutors have confirmed for the first time. In October, Australian national Peter Williams, 39, pleaded guilty to selling eight hacking tools that he stole …

In Brief ​Netflix’s $82. 7 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is facing significant new resistance. Investment group Ancora Holdings announced it has purchased $200 million in WBD shares and opposes Netflix’s offer. Instead, Ancora is throwing its support behind a rival bid from Paramount. The WSJ had …