The alien-like machines, described as ‘legged metamachines’, are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms. Researchers say the approach could lead to robots ...

CISPA-Faculty Prof. Dr. Cas Cremers has been awarded the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography. Cremers receives this honor together with his collaborators Prof. Dr. David Basin (ETH Zurich), Prof ...

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...

Fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he did not actually perform, using a new artificial-intelligence tool called Prism, released by OpenAI last ...

Computer science student Jack Luo is "the kind of person who'll build you a custom AI tool just because you mentioned a problem, then take you on a midnight ride to watch the city lights." At least ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

As global artificial intelligence (AI) development becomes increasingly concentrated among a handful of large technology players, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is pursuing a different path. Rather ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in ...