You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. “I, Joanna Stern, do solemnly swear to live with the machines for the next 365 days.” Thus begins the ...

Field, a new wealth management technology company led by Bill Crager, co-founder and former chief executive of Envestnet, launched with the goal of creating an integrated data layer underneath the ...

Windows 11 Pro's built-in automation tool makes it easy for all users to offload routine tasks. Here's how it works. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Nvidia plans to set up an artificial-intelligence research lab in Singapore, as part of the U.S. chip maker's broader push into automation and robotics technology to drive growth. The new lab will ...

While most warehouse robots still ferry goods to human pickers, Locus Robotics has aimed to flip the script with the debut of its Locus Array “robots-to-goods” system, which rolls an AI-powered arm ...

Australia's water supplies are evaporating. According to researchers at Deakin University, the country's water infrastructure loses nearly 370 billion gallons every year due to evaporation, about ...

SAN FRANCISCO—As families settled into their evening routines in late March, cooking dinner on electric stoves and flipping on their TV for the newest binge watch, the state’s energy grid was working ...

Scientists have captured stunning new insights into one of the universe’s most powerful phenomena—black hole jets—by using a planet-sized network of radio telescopes. Focusing on Cygnus X-1, one of ...

CEOs are facing a strategic fork in the road when it comes to AI. Are they primarily seeking to improve the bottom line through automation and headcount reduction? Or is their ultimate goal to grow ...

AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could ...

The Artemis II mission will be powered by four solar arrays built in Europe. Image: Airbus Defence and Space. Four giant solar ‘wings’ will provide power for the first crewed mission to the Moon in ...