Category: Tech

Last year we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author Cory Doctorow about his book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Tuesday to test a new reentry vehicle designed to deliver cargo anywhere in the world from low-Earth orbit.

Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam firm that inspects chips at the atomic scale, has raised $380mn at a $1.6bn valuation. It is the largest deep-tech round

Qualcomm is closing in on a deal to buy AI-software startup Modular for about $4bn. The Qualcomm Modular deal would hand the chipmaker fresh ammunition

The Amsterdam-listed group is putting conversational app-building in front of restaurants and shopkeepers, the users it says AI has so far left behind. Prosus has

A San Francisco judge cleared a proposed class action to proceed, in a case described as the first to broadly target the algorithms behind AI

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.

Oracle ended its 2026 fiscal year with about 21,000 fewer employees than it started with, a reduction of roughly 13% that ranks among the deepest

Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to Prime Day 2026, which begins on 23 June.

For our weary eyeballs, strained and tired from long periods locked onto screens, rest and relaxation can do wonders. But a man in Scotland came

Polymarket paid dozens of social media users to film themselves making fake bets for a promotion that aimed to convince people they can strike it

Lovable CEO Anton Osika says European AI startups do not have a talent shortage, they have a confidence deficit. In a post on X over

A 76-year-old Texas woman died on Friday after a Tesla Model 3 driver told police he was using the car’s Autopilot feature when he lost

For all its potential, generative AI, on the whole, churns out a lot of junk. Yet employees are becoming ever more reliant on this “workslop”