In 1990, three former Apple employees launched a company that epitomized the Silicon Valley dream. What they invented looked like an iPhone—more than a decade earlier. The device never came to be.

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Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

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OpenAI’s cofounder and president revealed in federal court on Monday that he’s one of the largest individual stakeholders in the AI lab.

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"To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."

Are you eligible for a payout? Probably, but it might take a while and will likely be pretty small.

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Upgrade your locks with fingerprint-scanning or a keypad, whether it’s at the front door or a sliding glass entryway.

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.

2026's Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing.

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OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn’t entered the US in more than a decade—following posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Metalenz’s Polar ID face-scanning technology works even when the camera is hidden under the display.