Enlarge / The walking Optimus prototype demonstrated at the AI Day 2022 event. (credit: Tesla) Today at Tesla’s “AI Day” event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled an early prototype of its Optimus humanoid robot, which emerged from behind a curtain, walked around, waved, and “raised the roof” with its hands to the beat of techno...
A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors to identify periods of high danger — and intervene.
After nearly three years, Google has decided to winnow its video game ambitions because Stadia was less popular than it had anticipated.
The company’s chief executive had signaled for several months that he wanted to rein in costs as he shifts attention toward the metaverse.
He invented a visible red-light diode. His 41 patents also included lasers that enabled DVD and CD players.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft late Thursday confirmed the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in its Exchange application that have already compromised multiple servers and pose a serious risk to an estimated 220,000 more around the world. The currently unpatched security flaws have been under active exploit since early August, when Vietnam-based security firm GTSC...
Enlarge / Deepfake Bruce Willis as he appeared in a 2021 commercial for Russian mobile company MegaFon. (credit: MegaFon) Bruce Willis has sold the “digital twin” rights to his likeness for commercial video production use, according to a report by The Telegraph. This move allows the Hollywood actor to digitally appear in future commercials and...
Enlarge (credit: Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images) For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical machine. And for almost as long, security researchers have warned about the potential dark side of that technology: theoretical “hyperjacking” and “Blue Pill”...
A reporter and a photographer went for a ride in an experimental autonomous vehicle operated by the General Motors subsidiary Cruise. There were bumps in the road.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising “numerous” organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday. ZINC—Microsoft’s name for a threat actor group also called Lazarus,...