In a sample notification the company shared with BleepingComputer, Apple says that it has high confidence in the warning and urges the recipient to take seriously. “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associa...

A research team led by Jason Twamley, a researcher in the theoretical physics of quantum science and technology at Japan’s Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), has successfully demonstrated levitation without using any external energy source. The team developed a new material to ach...

If you are wondering why Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has been working so hard to get the company’s foundry business not only back on track but utterly transformed into a merchant foundry that, by 2030 or so can take away some business from archrival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturi...

The move should allow the retro console emulators already on Android — at least those that are left — to bring their apps to the iPhone. Game emulators have long been banned from iOS, leaving iPhone owners in search of workarounds via jailbreaking or other workarounds. They’re also one of the ...

If you’re thinking about trying to capture a quick smartphone picture of the solar eclipse on Monday, you might want to reconsider. While most people know they shouldn’t look directly at the eclipse, as it turns out, our cell phone cameras shouldn’t be looking directly at it either. In a post ...

Google Books, which indexes published material and has become essential for academics, has begun indexing low-quality books, which could impact how it informs its language tracking tool, Ngram.  404Media reports Google Books included several books that AI could have written. The publication sea...

Is Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the world leader in generative artificial intelligence, trying to poach staff away from Tesla’s Autopilot team? Elon Musk certainly wants people to think so. After news emerged on Wednesday that Tesla’s Ethan Knight became the carmaker’s fourth engineer to join Musk�...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an AI tool that can diagnose sepsis, Prenosis, the company behind the software, announced Wednesday, the latest in a series of agency approvals for AI diagnostic tools.Sepsis, a life-threatening condition that manifests as an extreme response to an exis...

Discord, the instant-messaging app favored by video gamers, is launching a product that offers rewards for online play, part of an effort to generate a profit at the company this year. Quests, as the product is called, let Discord users try out new games with friends and win stuff, Chief Executive O...

Generative AI search engine Perplexity, which claims to be a Google competitor and recently snagged a $73.6 million Series B funding from investors like Jeff Bezos, is going to start selling ads, the company told ADWEEK. Perplexity uses AI to answer users’ questions, based on web sources. It incor...