Technology

One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads. Photograph: Kristoffer Tripplaar/Alamy Your internet service provider could have a good idea of who you’re planning to vote for in the 2024 election as well as the gender of …

Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature. Photograph: Apple Apple’s new Vision Pro mixed-reality headset goes on sale tomorrow, and the hype cycle has officially begun. The pricey product, which could be a giant bust or mark the beginning of a new era of …

Some residents of B.C.'s Okanagan Valley were briefly enveloped in shades of pink and purple this morning, when a hued fog appeared for several minutes. It's an 'incredibly rare phenomenon,' a CBC science specialist says. Hued fog an 'incredibly rare phenomenon,' says CBC science specialist Some residents of British Columbia's …

A new study in the journal Nature shows that strengthening populations of sea otters in a California salt marsh is changing its physical landscape to become more climate-resilient and less affected by soil erosion. And it comes down to something as simple as what they’re eating. They eat a lot …

With AI projects booming and the physical limits of silicon looming, some startups are challenging Nvidia's dominance and say it’s time to reinvent the computer chip entirely. Normal Computing's Stochastic Processing Unit (SPU).Courtesy of Normal Computing The cost of making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as …

Despite expensive legal battles and regulatory pressure, Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores are mostly unchanged. This week, Apple introduced a new fee on developers to protect its business. The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on Friday, January 5.Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/Getty Images What can $83 million in legal defense …

The first human patient received an implant from Elon Musk's computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend, the billionaire says. Patient 'recovering well,' Musk said, but no details have been shared by company The first human patient received an implant from Elon Musk's computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend, …

Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web. Illustration: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used …

Chad Dupuis had been living and working in the northern Alberta forest for several years and had numerous wildlife encounters. His lost dinner was a reminder that the parks are the animals' home and we're encroaching on it. It was a good reminder that inside the forest, we're the visitors …

A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution. Astronomer says 'stunning' photos reveal more about star formation A batch …