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A 148-meter tower in Jiangsu stores 100 MWh by hoisting 35-ton concrete blocks with surplus wind power.

Pudu Robotics plans a Shenzhen hotel where a different robot handles luggage, cleaning, coffee, and snacks.

AI license plate readers log 20 billion scans a month from 100,000+ cameras, most of them sold by Flock.

A security researcher says Apple's Hide My Email tool has exposed users' real addresses for more than a year.

Plex's lifetime Plex Pass jumped to $750 in July. A new five-year plan costs $250, the old lifetime price.

A new analysis from FutureSearch's wealth study of AI billionaires counts 57 AI billionaires worldwide, worth a combined $320 billion -- and almost none of that fortune has anything to do with a PhD. Chip designer Chen Tianshi of Cambricon ...

AI is coming for all our jobs, it seems, even those of phone scammers. What is the world coming to when we can't even get swindled by good, honest (well, not really) humans anymore? The advent of AI has massively improved the scalability of these ...

On September 13, 2005, Blizzard added a raid to World of Warcraft with a boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, who cast a debuff called Corrupted Blood that spread between nearby players. It was only meant to last inside that one dungeon. A programming ...

On October 14, 1888, French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed his family walking in circles in a garden in Roundhay, Leeds -- and the result, Roundhay Garden Scene, is believed to be the oldest surviving film. It runs about two seconds. -- Read the ...

After years of T9 texting on a Motorola Star Tac, seeing a BlackBerry phone with its comparatively ample physical QWERTY keyboard felt like a revelation. Texting and email had been a part of my job since the late 1990s. Being able to do both? -- Read ...