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Amid rising gas prices and climate change, car giants are in a fierce contest to perfect the solid-state battery, long viewed as a "holy grail" for electric vehicles.

Cryptocurrencies' prices have tumbled to near-historic lows, leaving experts to wonder what’s next for these digital assets.

Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into a free-speech haven. But he's thrown Twitter’s content moderation policies in question, leaving experts to wonder what the platform will look like in the future and who will suffer most.

Reddit "Aunties" are helping people covertly get abortions. The group offers a glimpse into a post-Roe era where people resort to informal networks to assist those needing to terminate a pregnancy.

Even as he touts his social media prize, it’s the titan’s closely held brain-based start-up that carries some of his biggest boasts — and largest burdens.

Crytpo was going to make them rich. Instead, therapists say they are seeing a rise in people who became depressed and addicted.

Social media posts paint a dire picture of life in Shanghai under lockdown. We ask a human rights expert how the government might respond.

Virtual-reality firms promise to bring empathy to harassment training. But experts worry it could trigger survivors and do little to change bad behavior.

The program is a direct response to countries like China, which have been building sophisticated missile technology to target ships that approach their shores. But experts warn the autonomous ships could fuel an AI naval arms race and have difficulty replicating a sailor’s workload.

Over the past month, 1,300 librarians and archivists across the world, have used open source tools to back up everything from Ukraine's historical records and census data to children’s poems and Ukrainian basket weaving techniques.

Once considered a humorous version of cryptocurrency, memecoins are now rife with scams, critics say, making it a particularly dangerous product.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed an autonomous, snakelike robot that could slither down human lungs into places that are difficult to reach, potentially improving the detection and treatment of lung cancer or other pulmonary diseases.

DARPA, the innovation arm of the U.S. military, wants artificial intelligence to make battlefield medical decisions, raising red flags from some experts and ethicists.

Drones that can dive bomb a target and explode on impact, sometimes without human control, are showing up on both sides of the Ukraine conflict. Experts say the weapons are here to stay.

The war in Ukraine has turned ordinary Twitter users into hobbyist intelligence analysts. These war sleuths could impact who’s held accountable for the conflict, or bring danger to those living through it.

More than 1,200 miles from Kyiv, a battle is playing out over autonomous weapons. Experts say the stakes are even higher than the Russian invasion.

Depending on your point of view, the future the ads portrayed is either a great change to be excited about or one to greatly fear.

Despite what viewers will see advertised during the Super Bowl, the NFL has largely prohibited its teams from involvement with cryptocurrency, unlike the NBA.