Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

Homeland Security officials have urged disaster response staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid using the word “ice” in public messaging about the massive winter storm barreling ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

Women gather at a neighborhood square in Lilongwe, Malawi, on June 8 Women gather at a neighborhood square in Lilongwe, Malawi, on June 8Zafer Goder—Anadolu/Getty Images In Malawi, one in three women ...

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The ex-husband of a woman found shot to death with her current husband Dec. 30 in Columbus' Weinland Park neighborhood has been charged with murder in the deaths. Michael David McKee, 39, of Chicago, ...

The United States has seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic following a dramatic weekslong chase on the high seas. The operation to seize the sanctioned vessel, which changed its ...

Earlier this week, some people on X began replying to photos with a very specific kind of request. “Put her in a bikini,” “take her dress off,” “spread her legs,” and so on, they commanded Grok, the ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) When electricity first emerged as a technology, Edison and Tesla clashed in the “war of currents,” arguing over whether alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) should ...

This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes for things like concept ...