A website called “UK visa portal” has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels.

Few things are as infuriating as a sluggish computer. That's been common knowledge since the early 1980s, when the principle of the Doherty Threshold was coined. In a study published in the IBM ...

TOKYO—Atsuyoshi Koike dreams of making computer chips on the moon. First, though, he has to prove he can do it on earth. Koike is the public face of Japan’s multibillion-dollar effort to muscle back ...

Anthropic’s Claude is getting a new feature that allows the AI model to use your computer to perform tasks automatically. Both Cowork and Code can then navigate the screen by pointing, clicking, and ...

Brain computer interface technology is rapidly advancing, allowing neural signals to translate into digital commands. Experiments like Neuralink Synchron trials demonstrate thought-controlled cursors, ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has gone through the roof. In July 2025, OpenAI reported that its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, received over 2.5 billion ...

AMSTERDAM, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Sales of equipment used to make computer chip wafers will rise about 9% to $126 billion in 2026 and a further 7.3% to $135 billion in 2027, as chipmakers expand capacity ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

Osaka, Japan – As more devices get piled onto computer chips to increase processing power capacity, heat generation becomes increasingly concentrated. This heat must be removed to keep chip ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...