On Thursday, OpenAI announced its investment in neurotech startup Merge Labs, cofounded by its CEO, billionaire Sam Altman. OpenAI will collaborate with the new venture to develop technology to link ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people with chronic and hard-to-treat conditions. Virtual reality isn’t just for ...

The first Big Tech layoffs of 2026 have happened. This week, Facebook owner Meta Platforms informed employees that up to 1,500 positions in its Reality Labs division would be eliminated. Here’s what ...

Google is testing a new “Tailor your feed” Labs experiment that lets you tell Discover exactly “what you want to see.” On Android, open the Google app and tap the Labs beaker icon in the top-left ...

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The 2024 Lonerock Fire burned over 137,000 acres in Gilliam, Wheeler and Morrow counties, much of it rangeland. Ranchers whose lands were destroyed faced a common yet costly hurdle to wildfire ...

If you want to keep your work free from the games you play after hours or just keep what you’re doing on Windows compartmentalized, one of the things you can do is create new virtual desktops. Virtual ...

Instead of signing expensive contracts with companies for their data, AI labs these days are trying a new tack: tapping former senior employees from those companies for their industry knowledge, ...

A new virtual reality lab at the University of Dayton will help students preparing for health professions study the human body in 3D and learn skills they'll use in the field. The Dave and Norma ...

The D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office is ramping up its efforts to link suspects to illegal guns found in homes, cars and backpacks, filing search warrants for DNA and using multiple labs to get it tested.

Meta Platforms Inc. has signed a multi-year contract worth more than $100 million to use technology from AI image startup Black Forest Labs, the latest investment by the social media firm to expand ...

University of Colorado Boulder Professor Nicole Xu is developing biohybrid robotic jellyfish by integrating tiny microelectronic systems into the live animals. Xu has about 15 to 20 moon jellyfish in ...