A major goal of the field of neuroprosthetics has focused on improving the lives of paralyzed patients by restoring their lost real-world abilities.  One example was the 2012 work by neuroscientists Leigh Hochberg and John Donoghue at Brown University. Their team trained two people with long-standing paralysis—a 58-year-old woman... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. During two years of lockdowns and home working, consumers flooded online to visit their favorite stores and buy items from cherished brands. Many were doing this for the first time. Less well documented is that something similar... Read more

Enlarge / DNS hijacking concept. Researchers have uncovered a malicious Android app that can tamper with the wireless router the infected phone is connected to and force the router to send all network devices to malicious sites. The malicious app, found by Kaspersky, uses a technique known as DNS... Read more

Apple is always unveiling new products, and that’s no different for its lineup of desktop computers. Last year, Apple added a new compact desktop: the new Mac Studio. The Mac Studio hit shelves in March 2022 and is essentially a supercharged version of the Mac Mini.  It comes with serious... Read more

Earlier this week, the National Bureau of Statistics in China announced that the Chinese population has decreased for the first time in 60 years. The population decrease does not come as a complete surprise. Curbing population growth was the entire point of the one-child policy in effect between 1980 and... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. The potential for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve human health cannot be understated, but it does face challenges.  Among the big challenges is dealing with siloed data sources, so researchers are not able... Read more

Reed Hastings has been in charge of Netflix since he co-founded the company, which originally shipped DVDs by mail, in 1997. Now Netflix has more than 230 million customers around the world, dominates the streaming video industry it basically invented, and Hastings is no longer going to run his... Read more

Enlarge / The Apple Lisa 1, released in 1983. Apple, Inc. As part of the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an Apple Academic License Agreement. With Apple’s blessing, the Pascal source code is available... Read more

CNET Wellness believes that you can be healthy at any size. We also acknowledge that health and body image are complex, personal matters and that some readers have weight loss goals. This article provides advice on that topic. Learn more about fatphobia here. If you’re struggling with an eating disorder,... Read more

Michael Calore: Lauren, do you have gas? Lauren Goode: OK, like, we’re close as podcast hosts, but we’re not this close. We’re not talking about gas. Are you talking about gas stoves? Michael Calore: I am indeed asking if you have a gas stove. Lauren Goode: I do have... Read more