Firms using facial recognition in China will be required to obtain consent or legal permission before collecting personal information, draft regulations released Tuesday said, while stipulating...
PayPal on Monday launched a stablecoin digital currency backed by US dollars to be used for transactions at its global online payments platform. PayPal USD is...
The Sao Paulo state government decided this week to largely replace textbooks with e-books in high schools, sparking a row in Brazil, where education experts and...
A married couple from New York dubbed “Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde” pleaded guilty on Thursday to laundering billions of dollars in stolen bitcoin, prosecutors announced....
The tidal wave of artificial intelligence (AI) barrelling toward many professions has generated deep anxiety among workers fearful that their jobs will be swept away —...
Elon Musk is rebranding his Twitter platform as “X” and wants to create a super-app where users will do all their finances as well as their...
More than half a century after he materialized on far-flung planets as Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, William Shatner has beamed into a...
The violins reverberate in the ribcage, while cello and bass are felt a little further down, with horns in the shoulders and, more often than not,...
Do social media echo chambers deepen political polarization, or simply reflect existing social divisions? A landmark research project that investigated Facebook around the 2020 US presidential...
With air conditioner demand surging, scientists are looking for ways to improve the energy efficiency of cooling systems and limit damaging emissions that accelerate global warming....