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Imagine running a business that depends on cloud services, only to have your account suspended three times in six months, each time for mysterious "policy violations" that nobody can explain.

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, is defending the platform against Elon Musk's cartoonishly vapid attacks. In a recent New York Times interview, Wales dismisses Musk's accusation that Wikipedia is "woke" by pointing to the site's actual ...

AOL was worth over $100 billion when it merged with Time Warner in 2000. Now it's worth $1.5 billion. Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons just agreed to buy AOL from Apollo Global Management for roughly $1.5 billion, reports Axios, in what ...

If you like the idea of letting strangers watch your home through your robot's eyes, here's a deal for you: 1X Technologies is accepting preorders for Neo, a $20,000 humanoid robot designed to handle household chores--with a catch. When the tasks get ...

In this video, a traditional street organ is fed the sheet music for a medley of classic Boney M disco hits such as Mary's Boy Child, Rasputin and Rivers of Babylon. [via Adam Seats: "If you ever catch me staring off into space and you wonder what's ...

Researchers have created WorldGrow, an AI system that generates endless 3D environments by stitching together procedurally created rooms and hallways. The result looks exactly like what you'd get if you fed an algorithm a dataset of generic office ...

The billionaires and corporations of America could stand together and make short work of an authoritarian regime. Dictators can't succeed without willing accomplices. Instead, the rich and powerful are lining up to fund Trump's $300 million White ...

Forget killer robots and superintelligent machines -- Oxford economist Maximilian Kasy reveals that the real story of AI is far more fascinating, and far more human in his new book, The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits). --

The secondhand electric vehicle market is hemorrhaging value worldwide, creating financial crises for fleet operators and individual owners alike. When India's BluSmart ride-hailing service collapsed in April, its fleet of electric cars, originally ...

For nearly two decades, a solar-powered camera in Namibia has been streaming live video in one of Earth's harshest environments. Since 2006, the Gondwana Namib Park waterhole camera has broadcast thirsty wildlife gathering at a desert oasis in ...