Not to blame the messenger (“Lynnwood to host collection event for Styrofoam, e-waste,” The Herald, Dec. 30) but I find the subject of the piece — Styrofoam recycling events — crazy. Unable, so far, ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — As of Jan. 1, 2026, New York State has banned foam containers used for cold storage. The law prohibits food services, manufacturers, and distributors from using polystyrene foam ...

Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those ...

Of all the possible applications of generative AI, the value proposition of using it to write code was perhaps the clearest. Coding can be slow and it requires expertise, both of which can be ...

Last week, as fashion fans watched model Bhavitha Mandava open Chanel’s 2025 Métiers d’art show—staged on a New York City subway platform—they had no idea just how accidentally appropriate the setting ...

The CMS Innovation Center has debuted a new model to encourage the use of technology to treat chronic diseases, which could be a boon for health tech companies that have struggled with reimbursement.

In this video, I demonstrate the process of making a knife using ancient Greek technology, focusing on techniques like case hardening. #knife #ancienttechnology #casehardening Video shows attack on ...

Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations. By Tiffany Hsu Tiffany Hsu has written for years about benefits and abuses of generative artificial ...

A new AI model is opening the black box of the leading artificial intelligence tool for predicting how proteins will interact with small molecules, such as drugs. The model, OpenFold3, which launched ...

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Cleveland-Cliffs — Shares jumped 10.5% after the steel company said it was thinking about starting a rare earths mining business.

If it’s worrying that high school kids are outsourcing their brains to AI, it’s downright alarming to imagine US military leaders — the commanders of the most well-equipped armed forces in history — ...

Google LLC has just announced a new version of its Gemini large language model that can navigate the web through a browser and interact with various websites, meaning it can perform tasks such as ...