Tech Innovation

How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories

BBC Omar el Qataa is a photojournalist operating out of northern Gaza Facebook has severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience during the Israel-Gaza war, according to BBC research. In a comprehensive analysis of Facebook data, we found that newsrooms in the Palestinian territories – in Gaza and the West … Read more

Five ways to make aviation more sustainable right now

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many of us feel guilt when we fly because it is a very obvious source of carbon emissions. Aviation causes around 2.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But we do not perhaps feel the same guilt when we walk into a new building, even though global concrete manufacturing emits closer to … Read more

Apple Intelligence Isn’t Driving iPhone Upgrades

Apple Intelligence hasn’t convinced people to buy an iPhone 16, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today. According to Kuo, a supply chain survey suggests ‌Apple Intelligence‌ is not pushing people to upgrade their devices. The delay between the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ introduction in June 2024 and a launch even after ‌iPhone 16‌ models came out was … Read more

Precision home robots learn with real-to-sim-to-real | MIT News

At the top of many automation wish lists is a particularly time-consuming task: chores.  The moonshot of many roboticists is cooking up the proper hardware and software combination so that a machine can learn “generalist” policies (the rules and strategies that guide robot behavior) that work everywhere, under all conditions. Realistically, though, if you have a … Read more

Companies have to address the risks posed by GenAI

Even though it’s only been two years since the public demo of ChatGPT launched, popularizing the technology for the masses, generative AI technology has already had a profound and transformative effect on the world. In the years since the platform’s launch, critics have regularly pointed out the risks of generative AI and called for increased … Read more

2024 was the year of the RTO mandate – 2025 will be worse

It feels like barely a month went by last year without some form of public spat between staff and employers over remote working policies. Indeed, 2024 was the year of the return-to-office (RTO) mandate, with a host of big tech firms pulling the rug out from under staff and forcing them back to the office. … Read more

AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests

Getty Images AI can potentially spot much more from a blood test than currently possible This is the third feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and treatments. Ovarian cancer is “rare, underfunded, and deadly”, says Audra Moran, head of the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (Ocra), a … Read more