The Forecasting Floats in Turbulence competition, run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is a challenge to predict where drifting sensors in the Atlantic will end up in 10 days in order to win a prize
A US intelligence report has revealed that a drone was used in an attempt to disable an electrical substation in Pennsylvania last year, in the first known attack of its kind
For the first time ever, sales of electric cars are forecast to exceed those of diesel ones in the UK next year, thanks to a fall in up-front prices and improvements in public charging infrastructure
An artificial intelligence algorithm can transform still images into a high-resolution, explorable 3D world, with potential implications for film effects and virtual reality.
Users of the social network will have their face data deleted, Facebook's parent company Meta has announced, but it is less clear what will happen with the AI algorithms trained on that data
Researchers at the company formerly known as Facebook have developed a touch-sensitive robotic skin that could introduce a greater sense of reality to the metaverse, its planned online virtual environment
Facebook has rebranded itself as Meta in an attempt to own the metaverse, a concept for a 3D version of the internet that a number of companies are working on
In 2019, YouTube altered its recommendation algorithm to stop promoting videos the company deemed harmful, which limited how much they were viewed even on other social media platforms
Having to hand over your PIN to access your bank account puts you at risk of hackers, but the fact that information can't travel faster than light, as laid out by Albert Einstein, could offer a solution
Silk has been modified through the addition of nanoparticles to reflect 95 per cent of sunlight, which means the material stays extra cool on a hot day
Netflix claims its audience "views" reflect the desires of the masses, but this unreliable data means some bad shows get green-lit, while potentially good stuff doesn't, says Annalee Newitz
Huge virtual events including Ariana Grande concerts held inside the video game Fortnite are the latest example of Silicon Valley's new favourite buzzword: a metaverse
A four-legged robot made by Ghost Robotics and outfitted with a sniper rifle and night-vision cameras was displayed at a meeting of the Association of the United States Army