The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

A computer designed to find life’s meaning concludes with a number. Trump adopts new nickname Ten years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their home, Rob made a movie about the family's ...

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise. Owen Collumb, a Cybathlon race pilot who has been ...

The picoRing device ditches Bluetooth for a novel magnetic relay system linked to a wristband, slashing its power consumption to mere microwatts. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The preview of Gemini 2.5 Computer Use is only for developers at the moment, but it shows that the era of agentic AI is here. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy ...

For a brief period last year, it seemed that AI-powered gadgets like the Rabbit R1 were going to be the next big thing. People were fascinated by the idea of replacing their smartphones with tiny ...

Google Cloud has launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) in an effort to establish a global standard for secure payments initiated by autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents. It was created ...

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups ...

The brain-computer interface developer Synchron has shown that its minimally invasive device can help connect a patient with an iPad, allowing them to control the device entirely by thought using ...

Since the onset of the command line, the way humans have interacted with their computers has been restricted to a keyboard. Meta's new wristband seeks to change that. Last week, Reality Labs at Meta, ...