The economy keeps growing — but life isn't getting easier for many.

Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly contentious policy issue over the past year, as lawmakers have grappled with the impact of the rapidly developing technology that has moved markets, influenced geopolitics and become largely unavoidable in daily life.  Key issues — like who should d…

A new technical paper titled “Nitride Ferroelectric Domain Wall Memory for Next-Generation Computing” was published by researchers at Kiel University, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (ISIT), NaMLab, and TU Dresden. Abstract “The emerging nitride ferroelectrics, such as Al1-xScxN promise …

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As a bioethicist and philosopher explains the ethics of using organs grown in animals for human transplant procedures.

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These are the key developments from day 1,409 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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The Department of Defense says it has carried out strikes against three vessels allegedly transporting drugs near Venezuela on December 30th, resulting in fatalities. NBC News' Monica Alba reports on the strikes and other recent actions by the Trump administration.

President Trump said Wednesday that his administration will end its deployment of the National Guard in Chicago; Los Angeles; and Portland, Ore., vowing to return federal forces to the major, Democratic-led cities if crime spikes again. “Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for…

This year, AI continued looming large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing capabilities and its striking shortcomings. New research has found that AI agents are doubling the length of task they can do every seven months—an astounding rate of exponen…

A new offence looks to build on existing rules outlawing sexually explicit deepfakes and intimate image abuse.

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer scrutiny

The detection of mercurial particles of light emanating from mice led to a flurry of interest in biophotons, a mysterious phenomenon that could have applications in agriculture

New York City has elected mayors across the ideological spectrum. But Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address marked something more consequential than a shift left. It articulated a governing philosophy fundamentally at odds with the American civic...
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AI technology continues to shape the content management market. It underpins top trends in 2026, including generative AI, agentic AI and predictive analytics.