Gather 'round, all, and hear the tale of the alleged Russian ransomware crook who tried and failed to recruit a Tesla employee for an insider scheme. Rather than go along with it, the target reported the approach, which got...
Protesters belonging to a group that calls itself the Three Percenters attend an alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images The company removed at least four of these groups and pages...
Elon Musk, pictured at a SpaceX event in 2019, counts the neuroscience startup Neuralink as one of his many future-forward endeavors. | Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto/Getty Images Neuralink has demonstrated a prototype of its brain-machine interface that currently works...
The news: IBM has built a new chemistry lab called RoboRXN in the cloud. It combines AI models, a cloud computing platform, and robots to help scientists design and synthesize new molecules while working from home.How it works: The...
Computers, however, find causal reasoning hard. Machine-learning models excel at spotting correlations but are hard pressed to explain why one event should follow another. That’s a problem, because without a sense of cause and effect, predictions can be wildly...
This Las Vegas third grader has a Chromebook, but not all students are so lucky. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images Students are going back to school — but they may not have everything they need to learn. ...
The future of mining is not just about the deposits and reserves that have not yet been efficiently tapped. It also is not just about the people who will make up the mining community years from now - though...
Companies pay cloud computing providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google big money to avoid operating their own digital infrastructure. Google’s cloud division will soon invite customers to outsource something less tangible than CPUs and disk drives—the rights and wrongs...
We made the call from the start: COVID-19 would spike the need for cloud computing and cloud computing talent. IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker noted an increase in cloud spending with traditional infrastructure taking a dirt nap....
Picture an office tower in which hundreds of people go about their business. Sensors monitor the environment, detecting the use of cubicles, meeting rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. The data shows which areas are hardly used and which are activity...


















