Business
South Korea on Wednesday fined Alphabet's Google and Apple a combined 63.7 billion won ($47.6 million), saying they abused their dominance in app store markets by forcing local developers onto their own payment systems and ...
Oct 28, 2026
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Engineering
Understanding how battery components work at the molecular or atomic levels can help scientists create faster-charging, more powerful, longer-lived storage devices. But the electron microscopes powerful enough to give this ...
Nov 2, 2026
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Security
Female fertility trackers have exploded in popularity in the past decade. In fact, the global feminine technology market is expected to reach a valuation of $255 billion by 2035, according to Research and Markets, a market ...
Nov 4, 2026
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Engineering
Could a magnetic field be used to identify in advance which OLEDs will keep smartphone and TV screens bright the longest? A KAIST research team has developed a technique that predicts OLED lifetime by analyzing small changes ...
Oct 21, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
A blind man points his phone at a pan and asks, "Are the sausages brown yet?" The app he's using responds out loud that some spots are still slightly pink. So a bit later, he takes another photo and asks again, and then again, ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Business
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it is ordering Delta Air Lines, Walmart and other companies to provide detailed information on how they use consumers' data when they're setting prices.
Oct 29, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Northwestern University engineers are investigating new ways to tell what the hands are doing—including peering beneath the skin to watch muscles and tendons move. The new methods don't use high-tech cameras, medical scans ...
Nov 3, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Finland's government has granted an operating license for the world's first permanent repository for radioactive spent nuclear fuel, waste management company Posiva said Thursday, 22 years after construction began on the ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
SpaceX said Monday it has struck a deal with private equity giant Apollo Global Management to lease specialized chips for developing artificial intelligence.
Oct 27, 2026
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Business
Artificial intelligence models replicate, and sometimes amplify, all sorts of human biases. In the last few years, University of Washington researchers have found AI has erased female characters from kids' stories, favored ...
Nov 3, 2026
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