When Dr. Jason Gibson began grading midterm exams for two summer history courses at Alcorn State University, he noticed a pattern that quickly became impossible to ignore. The assignment asked ...

The number of people with electrodes in their brains is believed to have more than doubled in the last couple of years. This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first ...

The federal judge in Mississippi also imposed fines and canceled the civil trial, removing all four lawyers from the case. By Neil Vigdor A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers ...

To get ahead in the new internet age, Google wants to help you google less. The company on Tuesday revealed a flurry of AI-powered features for its search engine, AI assistant Gemini and other ...

Microsoft Azure Monitor alerts are being abused to send callback phishing emails that impersonate warnings from the Microsoft Security Team about unauthorized charges on your account. Azure Monitor is ...

If you have a fireplace or wood stove that has helped your family stay warm this winter, what do you do with the leftover wood ashes? They can be spread in the garden, but a retired Purdue Extension ...

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

Just when you thought the circular deals couldn’t get any more circular, OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman’s brain computer interface (BCI) startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs, which defines itself as ...

On Thursday, OpenAI announced its investment in neurotech startup Merge Labs, cofounded by its CEO, billionaire Sam Altman. OpenAI will collaborate with the new venture to develop technology to link ...

When students in Catherine Hartmann’s honors seminar at the University of Wyoming took their final exams this month, they encountered a testing method as old as the ancient philosophers whose ideas ...