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Enlarge / 30 minutes in near-boiling water, and those soldered chips come right off, leaving you with something that’s non-toxic, compostable, and looking like something from your grandparent’s attic. (credit: Infineon) Right now, the destination for the circuit board inside a device you no longer need is almost certainly a gigantic shredder, and that’s the...

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Arizona State University) On Friday, Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law announced that prospective students would be allowed to use AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to assist in preparing their applications, according to a report by Reuters. This decision comes a week after the University of...

Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, writes for an influential audience of lawmakers, C.E.O.s and activists. Somehow, he’s still an optimist about the promise of technology.

Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.

Enlarge / A Google robot controlled by RT-2. (credit: Google) On Friday, Google DeepMind announced Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a “first-of-its-kind” vision-language-action (VLA) model that uses data scraped from the Internet to enable better robotic control through plain language commands. The ultimate goal is to create general-purpose robots that can navigate human environments, similar to...

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers have unearthed a rare malware find: malicious Android apps that use optical character recognition to steal credentials displayed on phone screens. The malware, dubbed CherryBlos by researchers from security firm Trend Micro, has been embedded into at least four Android apps available outside of Google Play, specifically on sites...

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Meta’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is looking for ways to keep users interested after more than half of the people who signed up for the text-based platform stopped actively using the app, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees in a company town hall yesterday. Threads launched on July 5...

(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As young people are heading back to school, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the nation’s largest youth development organization, is proud to announce support from over ten partners who are uniting t…

In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms.

We examined the daily activity of Ellen DeGeneres, Wiz Khalifa, Selena Gomez and others among Twitter’s most-followed to deduce if Threads has staying power.