Cormac McCarthy

Quantum Tech Will Transform National Security. It’s Testing U.S. Alliances Now.

The Australian physicist shook the heavy metal box that resembled a beer cooler but held a quantum sensor. A computer screen showed that...

NASA Seeks a Nuclear-Powered Rocket to Get to Mars in Half the Time

A Number That Sums It Up: 3 to 4 months to MarsWhat if a spacecraft could get to Mars in half the time...

Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say

The algorithms powering Facebook and Instagram, which drive what billions of people see on the social networks, have been in the cross hairs...

Ford’s Profit Jumped in Second Quarter

Ford Motor earned $1.9 billion from April to June, up from $667 million a year earlier, the company said on Thursday. Robust sales...

Prosecutors Drop Campaign Finance Charge Against Sam Bankman-Fried

Federal prosecutors pursuing the criminal case against the cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried said on Wednesday that they were dropping a charge that he...

Elon Musk’s Quixotic Quest to Turn X Into an ‘Everything App’

Four years ago, a billionaire tech executive leading one of the world’s pre-eminent social platforms laid out a vision to transform it into...

Blood of Young Mice Extends Life in the Old

A team of scientists has extended the lives of old mice by connecting their blood vessels to young mice. The infusions of youthful...

Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots

When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent...

Slack Experiences a Brief but Widespread Outage

Slack, the widely used messaging platform, experienced an outage of just over an hour early Thursday, disrupting life in offices around the world...

NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI Supercomputing Brings AI Training as-a-Service

The computing space first announced in March is now open for general availability. The same type of...

Alphabet Steams Past Ad Worries, Fueled by Google’s Search Engine

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, gained ground in its most recent quarter against several of its lingering challenges, according to financial results released on...

AI Will Deliver $115 Billion More to the Australian Economy, But Are Tech Pros Ready?

The adoption of AI has occurred at an almost unprecedented rate. Now, a...

Slow Battery Production Crimps G.M.’s Electric Vehicle Rollout

General Motors is investing tens of billions of dollars to produce a bevy of new electric vehicles and, it hopes, catch up to...

Tech Firms Once Powered New York’s Economy. Now They’re Scaling Back.

For much of the last two decades, including during the pandemic, technology companies were a bright spot in New York’s economy, adding thousands...

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