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U.S. investigators are closely monitoring reports that dozens of people are in quarantine after the death of a Russian laboratory worker studying the plague in Siberia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the State Department, the ...

Apple's Vision Pro was never going to be a big success right out of the gate. It wasn't just the eye-watering $3,499 price--it was the headset's reliance on highly advanced, low-yield OLED display panels from Sony, which could reportedly only be ...

Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile, a new generation of children has begun engaging with an even more potent technology ...

Dystopian narratives about AI abound. Will the bots take over? Are we doomed as a human species? While I do not have a utopian outlook about our tech-saturated future, I do wonder what we could start doing today, in our present state, to course ...

I'm talking to many companies these days that are trying to incorporate AI into their business practices. Most of them are still in what I call "the administrative phase," when they just try modest automations that allow some workers to draft ...

How do I handle the feeling of getting defensive? That's the question we discussed recently in my emotional intelligence community. A member (we'll call her Raven) shared how she noticed the same pattern develop over and over at work. "Someone will ...

For a mixed-use development, the Westlake 66 project in Hangzhou, China, was especially mixed up. Like many projects in this category, the development was initially devised to add a combination of offices, retail, hotels, and public space, weaving ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence.Trump is calling it the "Super Intelligence Force," because he has tried to rebrand AI as ...

Seven major oil-exporting countries agreed Sunday to keep production steady in November at a time when the Iran war has driven the price of benchmark Brent crude oil above $100 a barrel.The so-called OPEC+ subgroup -- Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq,

U.S.-listed shares of Brazilian fintech and financial services companies rose by double digits in premarket trading on Monday following news that South America's largest country is heading into a runoff election. Right-wing candidate Flávio ...