Tag: Technology

Living with a Stink? Technology Might Help For people who live near a landfill, a sewage works, an intensive farm or a busy industrial estate, bad smells are more than an occasional nuisance. They can seep into homes, interrupt sleep, spoil gardens and, over months and years, wear down a community’s patience. Now a growing…

Autonomous Mission Intelligence Emerges as Defense Tech’s Next Big Bet A new phrase is circulating through defense industry marketing decks and investor briefings: autonomous mission intelligence. Promoted this week in a press release distributed via PR Newswire, the concept is being pitched as the next billion-dollar opportunity in military technology — a category built around…

A Saudi national has been accused of planting a covert recording device inside a conference room used by OpenAI executives, according to a report published Tuesday by Fox Business. The allegation, if substantiated, would mark one of the most striking corporate espionage claims yet involving a leading artificial intelligence company — a sector that has…

Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of data analytics company Palantir Technologies, appeared on CBS News’ “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, in an interview released in full transcript form by the network. Sankar is one of the more visible executives in a corner of the technology industry that has…

NVIDIA has announced a $1 billion commitment to advancing scientific research in the United States over the next five years, a move that underscores how central accelerated computing and artificial intelligence have become to modern discovery. The pledge, revealed by the company this week, positions NVIDIA as one of the largest corporate backers of American…

The United Nations has issued a warning about a fast-advancing class of technologies capable of reading signals from the human brain, urging governments to put safeguards in place before devices that interpret thought become commonplace. The concern centers on neurotechnology — a broad category that includes brain-computer interfaces, wearable headsets that track neural activity, and…

The question nobody in cybersecurity can confidently answer For decades, the balance of power in computer security has rested on a simple asymmetry: finding a serious flaw in complex software is hard, slow work that demands expertise, patience, and a certain obsessive temperament. Defenders have always been outnumbered, but attackers have been throttled by the…

Australia’s privacy regulator has opened an investigation into the China-based company responsible for the app that pairs with a cut-price set of camera-equipped smart glasses sold at Kmart, a product that drew widespread criticism and the nickname “pervert glasses” after shoppers raised concerns about covert filming. The inquiry centres on how the app collects, stores…

NATO has released a Quantum Technology roadmap, setting out how the Alliance intends to develop, adopt and safeguard a family of technologies that many defence planners believe will reshape sensing, navigation, computing and secure communications in the decades ahead. The publication builds on work NATO has been undertaking for several years. Quantum technologies have been…

Google is making a pitch to an industry that has spent the past several years bracing for impact: relax, the technology is here to help. The message, aimed at studios, streamers, agencies and the unions that represent the people who make movies and television, is a familiar one from Silicon Valley. New tools, the argument…