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You can probably quickly tell from a friend’s tone of voice whether they’re feeling happy or sad, energetic or exhausted. Computers can already do a similar analysis, and soon they’ll be able to extract a […]

Quantum computers promise unprecedented computing speed and power that will advance both business and science. These same qualities also make them a prime target for malicious hackers, according to Swaroop Ghosh, professor of computer science […]

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: “Whatever I see or hear in the lives of […]

Hackers claiming to have accessed more than 100,000 people’s health records in New Zealand have reportedly extended a ransom deadline until Friday, after saying they want to build a “good reputation.”This article is brought to […]

Use a loyalty card at a drug store, browse the web, post on social media, get married or do anything else most people do, and chances are companies called data brokers know about it—along with […]

Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few […]

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have “backed up” millions of Spotify’s music files and metadata.This article is brought to you by […]

Imagine a future where you board an American Airlines flight without a gate agent scanning a boarding pass.This article is brought to you by this site.

Researchers have developed the first scientifically validated “personality test” framework for popular AI chatbots, and have shown that chatbots not only mimic human personality traits, but their “personality” can be reliably tested and precisely shaped—raising […]