Technology

Utah’s governor accuses social media and other platforms of being behind every assassination attempt in recent years, but experts say it’s a much harder phenomenon to explain

The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts

Two investigations warn about how data collected through menstrual tracking apps can be used by governments to monitor people’s reproductive lives, and by companies to make a profit

Gangs that rob gadgets are looking for new ways to extract more value from them. An expert analyzed the work of one organization as it was dismantled by the police

The Austrian activist who won data protection guarantees for Europeans believes the EU must achieve true digital autonomy

Humanity is once again a laboratory for big tech, which deploys uncontrolled, unreliable tools that are already part of the daily lives of billions of people around the world

A century after Heisenberg formulated his theory, the field has transformed our understanding of the physical world, yet many of its applications remain in development

The application of computational techniques can decipher palimpsests: manuscripts where the original text was removed to make room for new writing

The Las Vegas Sphere premieres a $100 million immersive version of the 1939 classic

The measure, which carries no penalties for noncompliance, is aimed at preventing ‘excessive use of devices that cause physical and mental health problems’

Fifty years ago, the ground-breaking model inspired Bill Gates, Paul Wozniak and Steve Jobs to create Microsoft and Apple

The professor at the University of Cambridge studies how the consequences of digital immortality will affect us. Technology already makes it possible to create avatars of our ancestors to converse with them, as if they were still alive

Although not illegal, self-destructive behavior by streamers has sparked debate about online boundaries and why audiences are drawn to it

GPT Jesus is one example of a recent series of chatbots that draw on the New Testament and respond in different languages. The Church views the tool with suspicion, but also as an opportunity

Companies hide behind improvement needs to collect personal online activity with which to train their models and sell to ‘service providers’

The proliferation of these centers in France’s second-largest city threatens the energy supply for projects aimed at improving the lives of residents

Autonomous rail vehicles with few seats could connect low-demand destinations at a very low cost, although Spanish legislation poses a stumbling block

Beijing has hosted an international competition where companies and universities test the autonomy of their androids and fine-tune their capabilities

The creation of a system to protect minors is under debate in the EU between those who advocate for this barrier and those who fear for privacy and believe that children will go to more dangerous and hidden corners of the internet

Winning at social validation is the new goal of this constant quantification

Internet giants are extracting basic resources and grabbing land to build their new data centers in Mexico, Chile, and Spain. This is a look at the impacts of several projects by Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, leaders of a multi-billion-dollar industry undergoing global expansion

It’s much more than just a driving route app, and these features prove it

A new study reveals that people struggle to spot promotional content, as platforms have learned to disguise commercial messages

A recent study shows that more and more people — especially Generation Z — are using artificial intelligence in their love lives, from writing icebreaker messages to simulating entire romantic relationships

A monitoring system run by the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion found a 1,500% increase in racist content targeting North Africans after unprovoked assault on an elderly resident

The popular device accounted for 47% of Apple’s revenue in the third quarter as the company now tries to position itself in the field of artificial intelligence