An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

The Trump administration announced Thursday that human fetal tissue derived from abortions can no longer be used in research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The policy, long urged by anti ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

The United Kingdom’s controversial rollout of facial recognition technology will rely on software that appears to have already been deployed in Gaza, where it is used by the Israeli army to track, ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a deep learning algorithm that ...

The Metropolitan Police are facing a High Court battle over the use of live recognition cameras after an anti-knife crime campaigner's 'human rights were violated' when he was wrongly identified as a ...

Police use of the technology was increasing ‘exponentially’, the High Court was told (Danny Lawson/PA) It will be “impossible” for Londoners to travel without being scanned by facial recognition ...

Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. By Sheera ...

Humans may be accelerating the rate at which organic matter decomposes in rivers and streams on a global scale, according to a new study. That could pose a threat to biodiversity in waterways around ...

Bunnings was reasonably entitled to use AI facial recognition technology to combat crime and staff abuse in its stores, the Administrative Review Tribunal has found. The hardware giant did not breach ...

More than 400,000 faces have been scanned by police in the south of England using live facial recognition (LFR) technology, leading to a handful of arrests. But what is it? Cameras take a digital ...

But, the Administrative Review Tribunal ruled the Wesfarmers-owned chain failed to properly inform customers about use of the technology between November 2018 and November 2021 in up to 62 stores.