Technology

Two bipartisan bills regulating the use of facial recognition technology in Montana have advanced to floor votes. The bills would limit the technology’s use by government agencies, law enforcement, and public schools. Both of the bills are the result of a two-year effort by the Legislature to stud...

A short story called “The Last Hope” first got on the Sheila Williams table in early January. Williams, editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction, read the story and passed it on, writes The Verge. At first, she didn’t think much of it; she reads and responds to writers daily as part of her job, re...

Previous studies have suggested a possible link between head injury and increased rates of brain tumours, but the evidence is inconclusive. The UCL team have now identified a possible mechanism to explain this link, implicating genetic mutations acting in concert with brain tissue inflammation to ch...

In recent years, computer vision, an area of artificial intelligence, has undergone tremendous growth and progress. It entails employing computers to evaluate and comprehend visual data from our surroundings. This technology has several practical uses for businesses, ranging from increased efficienc...

In response to growing consumer demand for bitcoin and other cryptocurrency-related services, an increasing number of banks in the United States under the umbrella of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are exploring the digital currency space. The trend reflects the interlinkage of crypto ass...