With residents this month debating use of facial recognition systems at some Connecticut grocery stores, state lawmakers from ...

The annual consumer electronics extravaganza known as CES kicked off in Las Vegas this week with prominent contributions from a couple of local tech stalwarts. Together they represent two of the ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

The future of Tesla is an army of humanoid robots that Elon Musk says could eliminate poverty and the need for work. He has told investors the robots could generate “infinite” revenue for Tesla and ...

On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...

Footage circulating this week from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen shows a humanoid robot walking alongside uniformed police officers during what appeared to be a public patrol, highlighting ...

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New Year’s Day is celebrated on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. It is a federal holiday, and some supermarkets will close to give employees a fresh start to the new year. Some supermarkets are staying open, ...

If you start watching Mr. Robot on Netflix at exactly 11:48:06 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, you can hear Rami Malek say “Fuck society” in the pilot episode just as 2025 comes to an end. This feels like a ...

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South Korean tech giant LG Electronics will present LG CLOiD, its new home assistant robot, at the upcoming CES 2026, to be held in Las Vegas from January 6-9. The robot is designed to perform a ...