The technology industry is obsessed with the future. satellites smartphones A.I. chips smart glasses smartphones satellites smart glasses A.I. chips Many of our modern marvels are rooted in the legacy ...

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Learn how to apply LLMs across industries in 7 weekly editions of our new free newsletter. For years, our newsroom has explored AI’s limitations and potential dangers, as well as its growing energy ...

Los Alamitos, California, January 29, 2026 — IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization and a public charity dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, together with the IEEE ...

For decades, businesses have been trapped in a cycle of painful, episodic change, launching massive re-engineering projects and investing in new IT systems, only to find their organization’s ...

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

Google was hit with a patent infringement lawsuit on Jan. 22 in California Northern District Court over its containerization technology products. The action, brought by Russ August & Kabat on behalf ...

Something stinks about the city’s new trash bins. New Yorkers are scrambling to buy required but tough-to-find official trash cans or face a fine — but the only company allowed to make the bins has ...

Food security, climate change, global health: Agriculture is where the world’s most serious challenges collide. As the global population grows, farms must produce 60 percent more food by 2050, but ...

With its advance toward continuous transformation, the Army is refocusing its force structure to prioritize a modernized weapon portfolio necessary for large-scale combat operations. The Army’s ...

Education technology—including school districts’ 1-to-1 computing initiatives—impedes students’ ability to learn and offers a portal to platforms that harm children’s mental health, experts told ...

Technology can be a powerful force for good. It can also be an enormous factory for harmful ideas. We tried to keep both of those things in mind when creating the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026.