Virginia has just passed a law banning the sale of location data. It is the first state in the United States to say enough is enough: companies can no longer buy or sell information about where you ar...
Germany has taken a giant step toward European technological sovereignty with the opening of Infineon’s Smart Power Fab in Dresden, the largest semiconductor factory in the world for power chips...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has dismissed Google’s final appeal against the €4.7 billion fine that the European Commission imposed on it in 2018 for anti-competitive practi...
The United States government has lifted the export control restrictions that had kept Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence models blocked since mid-June. The Claude Fable and Claude...
PlayStation has announced that, as of January 2028, it will stop manufacturing physical discs for the new games on its consoles. The end of an era that began in 1994 with the first PlayStation arrives...
For the first time in history, a team of biologists has managed to build a cell from scratch — that is, by putting non-living components together, piece by piece—and succeeded in making it grow, dupli...
For nearly two thousand years, the Herculaneum papyri have kept their secrets better than any treasure chest. Buried and carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, these papyrus scrolls became s...
Hello, dear audience! Marta at the keyboard We can have the most sophisticated firewalls, the most up-to-date antivirus, the strongest encryption, and the most complex passwords, but it all comes cras...
Henrico County, in Virginia (United States), has 37 data centers on its territory. And yet, it has asked its schools and public buildings to save electricity to reduce costs. The paradox is perfect: w...
The United States government has offered a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or capture of those responsible for a Russian cyberattack group that has managed to...
South Korea has announced an investment plan of one trillion dollars (yes, with a t) to build new chip factories, artificial intelligence data centers, and launch humanoid robots into the labor market...
Comcast, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, has announced a plan to split its media and technology businesses into two independent companies. The move marks a histor...
Rocket Lab, the space company founded by Peter Beck (the same one who launched a rocket into space with a 3D-printed engine), has announced the acquisition of Iridium Communications. It’s no ord...
WhatsApp, the most-used messaging app on the planet (with more than 3 billion users), has just announced a feature many had been asking for for years: usernames. From now on, you’ll be able to c...
The United States Congress is preparing to vote this week on the KIDS Act, a package of laws that, under the pretext of protecting minors online, would force platforms to verify the age of all their u...
Last March, professor Roberto Serrano, a tenured professor of Economics at the prestigious Brown University (United States), got a major surprise while grading his mathematical economics exams. Of the...
Meta has made a bold move in the artificial intelligence race by buying Manus, a startup specialized in autonomous AI agents, for more than $2 billion. The deal, one of the most striking of the year, ...
China is back on top of world supercomputing. The new LineShine supercomputer, built in Shenzhen, has become number 1 on the TOP500 list, the benchmark ranking of the most powerful computers on the pl...
An anonymous profile on GitHub is doing something that puts the cybersecurity industry in check: publishing “zero-day” vulnerabilities —security flaws manufacturers don’t yet know ab...
Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a new feature that turns its artificial intelligence into one more member of the team inside Slack. The novelty, presented this week, completely replaces the old Cla...
Ford has been forced to rehire hundreds of veteran workers after its aggressive bet on artificial intelligence to replace its most experienced employees cost the company billions of dollars in product...
Europe has created an underwater robot that promises to clean up trash from the seabed. And Spain, with its 8,000 kilometers of coastline, could be one of the most benefited countries. It’s call...
Are you going to buy a Mac or an iPad? Well wait, because Apple has raised prices significantly. Since this week, MacBook laptops and iPad tablets cost between 20% and 42% more worldwide, depending on...
Sony has dropped a bombshell that sets off all the alarms about digital ownership. The company has announced it will remove 551 movies from PlayStation Store accounts, including classics like Terminat...
Movistar has begun warning its customers that, as of September 15, equipment that is not official will stop working. What does this mean for you? Well, if you have a router that isn’t the one th...
If you’re planning to fly this summer, pay attention to this news: lithium batteries —the ones in your phone, your power bank, your laptop or your vape— have become the biggest safety risk for a...
The earthquake that shook Venezuela in recent hours has left an important lesson: the phone in your pocket can serve for more than just looking at social media. Google’s earthquake alert system,...
GTA VI, one of the most anticipated video games in history, will arrive this year without a physical disc. This has been confirmed by Rockstar Games, the company that created the saga: the boxed copie...
If you imagine a giant planet, you probably think of something dense and heavy, like Jupiter. But the universe holds surprises: NASA’s TESS space telescope has discovered two planets that are th...
In Barcelona they’ve achieved something that seems from another time and from the future at the same time. A group of architects from the IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) ...