Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation By applying a 1980s ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

VPNs won't stop fraudsters from stealing your bank account—and in some cases, they can make it more difficult to access your money. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy.

I'm an artist who also curates exhibitions. Most of my friends are other artists, who often want to be included in the shows I put together. Increasingly, I can't tell who my friends really are ...

UPDATE: Jun. 4, 2026, 3:38 p.m. EDT — This article has been updated with a statement from Reddit. In recent years, brands and spammers alike have been using Reddit to manipulate AI chatbots by ...

Gen Z might be using the abbreviation for “point of view” incorrectly. But linguists think it’s exciting. By Nitsuh Abebe Two months ago, Griffin Bassett uploaded one of the language-education videos ...

A study conducted by scientists from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT and UCLA found the technology can affect cognitive function and problem-solving abilities in a relatively short period. “We show that ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...

When Americans think about the nation’s substance use crisis, opioids, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine dominate the conversation. But the substance causing the greatest harm is not illicit. It ...

Tens of thousands of shoppers are reporting widespread problems using Amazon’s website, according to reports from outage tracker Downdetector. As of 3:45 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 5, reports of ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...