Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a background as a systems librarian in software development, she brings a unique perspective to her reporting. Having lived ...

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Alan and Katie Donegan have achieved the seemingly impossible dream - they retired aged 40 and 35, respectively.

The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI ...

No matter your age, it’s never too late to learn something new—especially in a world that’s constantly changing. With Coursera, you don’t have to sit in a classroom to pick up new skills. Coursera ...

A massive pipe burst out of the road in Osaka, Japan, bringing traffic to a screeching halt. The pipe is 11.5 feet in diameter and rose up to 42 feet above the ground at one point. No one was injured ...

THIS IS what Crystal Palace National Sports Centre will look like in four years’ time following its £130million facelift. SunSport can reveal the computer-generated images that were submitted last ...

An Army National Guard program blends recruiting and disaster training, letting students use AI-powered Google glasses in a virtual reality simulation of life-like crisis scenarios.