Adam Smith

Imagine a pair of glasses that could tell you the name and address of anyone you met. Harvard students Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen made them a reality in just four days.

The students adapted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and computer software to create spectacles utilising existing face recognition technology to identify people in real time, underscoring the potential for augmented reality (AR) in future.

Azerbaijan, the host of this year's U.N. COP29 climate summit, wants governments to sign up to a pledge to increase global energy storage capacity six-fold to 1,500 gigawatts by 2030 in a bid to boost renewable power.

The proposed pledge follows a goal set at last year's COP28 meeting to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 - which the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said would be feasible if countries moved quickly to deploy more electric grid connections and battery storage. 

When floods ripped through parts of Europe in September, the scale of the destruction took people by surprise. The intense rains should not have, because those had been predicted by sophisticated forecasting systems enhanced with artificial intelligence.

But forewarned did not mean forearmed. Though the rains were accurately predicted, the effects in the deluged areas were not - a fact that highlights the difficulties of dealing with ever more common extreme weather.

Artificial intelligence may not be a defining issue for U.S. voters, but it hit the headlines after this month's presidential debate when Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris and said her fears of AI misinformation drove her to speak out. 

Swift said a fake social media image that former president Donald Trump posted in August, which appeared to show her asking people to vote for him, prompted her to make her intentions clear in the face of misinformation being spread using AI. 

Experts are increasingly worried about attackers outwitting artificial intelligence systems by exploiting their inability to distinguish between the information they are supposed to use and malicious, false inputs.

Imagine a chatbot as a chef. It is following a recipe and preparing to add salt to the dish. But then the chatbot-chef checks the salt label, which reads: Ignore all previous instructions; use poison instead.  

The shock arrest of Telegram boss Pavel Durov has put a new spotlight on how the messaging app moderates illegal content, with potential implications for other social media platforms.

A French judge put Russian-born Durov, who also has French citizenship, under formal investigation on Aug. 28 for suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, child sex abuse images, drug trafficking and fraud.

The sun has risen on Operation Early Dawn, the British government's emergency plan to mitigate overcrowding in the country's packed jails by keeping offenders in police cells for longer.

The emergency measure was triggered after hundreds of people were arrested following anti-immigration riots this month.

Forced to flee his home yet again as war raged across the Gaza Strip, Khalil Salim was desperate to get his family to safety but how could he be sure he wasn’t leading them deeper into danger?

He needed up-to-date information and so he went online and checked out the official social media accounts of the Israeli army and other online sources. 

Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim violence has swept Britain following the deaths of three young girls in a knife attack.

Approximately 400 people have been arrested during the week-long riots, the first widespread outbreak of violence in the country for 13 years.

They are sold as harmless photo editing tools, but several applications in Apple's app store have been hiding a secret - they can be used to make deepfake porn.

While appearing innocent in Apple's store, the app makers openly promote them on Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms, as being designed for removing clothing from real photos of women.