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Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using

A man with ALS has been using a brain implant to speak independently for more than 3,800 hours over the past two years, producing nearly 2 million words with an

Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and carries 137

TL;DR: AI is making it easier than ever to build software that looks impressive in a demo. But after working in OpenAI’s first intern cohort, I learned that the

Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn, a bet that the way to take on Stripe is to own every step of a payment, not just one. The Canadian firm will pay $7.40 a s

The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to nati

Meta’s Threads has crossed 500 million monthly users, the company said on Tuesday, almost exactly three years after it launched to chase Elon Musk’s X. That is

The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that us

Xiaomi has unveiled a robotic charging arm designed for residential garages that automatically plugs and unplugs an electric vehicle without any owner intervent

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will ship supervised point-to-point self-driving on all of its second-generation vehicles and the R2 later this year, de

IMEC, the Belgian semiconductor research institute that partners with more than 600 chip industry players, has expanded its 300mm RF silicon interposer platform

Three Xbox-owned studios are in active negotiations to buy themselves back from Microsoft rather than face closure, according to Bloomberg. Compulsion Games in

Go Inc., Japan’s most widely used taxi-hailing app, begins trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday after raising ¥88.6 billion ($553 million) in the coun

A China-linked espionage group spent more than a year inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks, stealing sensitive data and defen

Asian technology stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest g

A federal judge has permanently killed xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets related to the Grok chatbot. US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed

MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+ will launch on June 23 at $1,699, making it the most expensive handheld gaming PC ever sold at retail. The device is the first to ship with

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its s

Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across the platform. The feature surfaces inf

Polymarket, the largest prediction market exchange, has more than $345 million in trading volume stuck in limbo over a question of semantics. Traders bet on whe

Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals ha

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. The chip delivers 80 trillion operations per

AMD has silently disabled a security feature on its consumer Ryzen processors that protected users against physical attacks on their computer’s memory. The feat

Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have disclosed a vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search that could have let an attacker stea