Delhi air quality worsens ahead of Diwali as firework restrictions enter force

For autonomous vehicles, the hardest lessons to learn are the ones that can test the skills of even the most experienced human drivers: an errant cyclist darting through a red light, or an animal bolting into oncoming traffic from behind a corner. The Chinese tech giant Baidu has developed a new AI-driven simulator to prepare its Apollo robotaxis for just such rare but high-stakes road hazards, as the firm looks to gain an edge in the fast-growing self-driving taxi market. The system, Apollo...

Graduates are spending more time managing AI, but are they missing out on other work experience?

OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.

The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".

The space agency estimates that there is a one-in-2,100 chance that debris from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could injure someone on the ground.

A series of storms has added to reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, but the long-term water outlook remains bleak.

Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine.

Physics milestone: Scientists capture quantum signals at the smallest subatomic scale in historyIn a surprising update, scientists detect space signals at the smallest scale ever explored.The milestone breakthrough involves physicists probing into a realm known as the "zeptoverse"—a...

When copyright strikes silence reporters, rail safety & the Lord of the Rings live show.

Scientists searching for advanced alien civilizations have detected a mysterious signal in data from the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.

In the 2022 midterms, Democrats made global warming an issue. Things have changed.

A report from the cryptocurrency exchange described a monthslong campaign involving fake job interviews that exploited an engineer’s work computer and an internal A.I. tool.