Sci-Tech

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog said Tuesday it has launched a criminal investigation into an AI-generated porn scandal at the city’s oldest university, after a student was accused of creating lewd images of his female classmates and teachers.

A private spaceflight featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary came to a close Tuesday with a Pacific splashdown.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost planet.

Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centres for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.

The Canadian government’s top scientist has released a new report on unidentified flying objects. The report recommends the creation of a new federal body to standardize, collect and investigate UFO reports.

The Facebook post shows a photo of a pretty curly-haired girl on a tricycle and says she is Hannelore Kaufmann, 13-year-old from Berlin who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. But there is no such Holocaust victim and the photo is not real, but generated by AI.

The tiny beetle could scarcely have picked a worse human to fly into.

For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: US$2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

When Janean Compton received a pair of text messages this week claiming she had a speeding ticket, her first reaction was to wonder if they were legitimate.

Virtual reality was supposed to transform entertainment. At least, that was the expectation roughly a decade ago with the arrival of the Oculus Rift, the first virtual reality (VR) headset that many believed would push VR into the mainstream.

An ancient Roman mystery is afoot in the rolling hills of northern Britain.

Researchers have started working on dinosaur fossils left sitting for decades after Saskatchewan’s most famous fossil was unearthed.

A team led by the Smithsonian has discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur—a small, seagull-sized flying reptile that lived more than 200 million years ago in what is now Arizona.

The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from the fossil fuel that are crucial for tech products and military hardware.

A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have made it easier for consumers to end unwanted subscriptions, has been blocked by a federal appeals court days before it was set to go into effect. But there are ways to end those subscriptions and memberships, even if they take some work.