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Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update…

Updated 11:26 AM EDT, Sat July 20, 2024

"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in...The most important thing that parents can do…

Updated 10:27 AM EDT, Sat April 6, 2024

Grammy award-winning artist Ne-Yo joins CNN's Laura Coates to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the music industry.

Published 3:25 AM EDT, Fri April 5, 2024

A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he…

Updated 10:43 AM EDT, Sat March 16, 2024

Apple's Vision Pro headset is the first new product in seven years. CEO Tim Cook will have to prove that a device that blends both virtual and augmented reality, a technology that overlays virtual images on live video of the real world, is…

Published 8:20 AM EST, Fri February 2, 2024

Congress today is grilling the chief executives of several big tech companies, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, about potential harms from their products on teens.

Congress is grilling chief executives of several big tech companies about potential harms from their products on teens.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s grilling of four social media executives produced some notable moments. Here are a few:

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates talks to Fareed about how AI can improve millions of people's lives through innovations in health care and education.

Published 5:31 PM EST, Sun January 28, 2024

Sam Altman, whose company OpenAI is behind ChatGPT, joins Fareed to talk about the safety and utility of artificial intelligence, as well as the boardroom drama that briefly saw him dismissed as CEO.

Published 5:20 PM EST, Sun January 28, 2024

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates speaks to Fareed about his plans to no longer be one of the world's richest people: "I'm getting myself to go down the list, and I'll be proud when I fall off altogether."

Updated 9:10 AM EST, Sun January 28, 2024

Talking to Fareed at Davos, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates reflects on his "monomaniacal" work ethic when he was younger — and how he doesn't recommend it to others.

Updated 9:05 AM EST, Sun January 28, 2024

North Carolina became the fourth state to adopt the AI guidebook for its students. CNN 10's Coy Wire explains how this artificial intelligence guidebook can be helpful for both teachers and students in the classroom.

Published 1:57 PM EST, Wed January 24, 2024

Meta announces new restrictions for teens on Facebook and Instagram. CNN's Meg Tirrell explains what these new changes are and why they're happening.

Published 2:36 PM EST, Thu January 11, 2024

Meta announces new restrictions for teens on Facebook and Instagram. CNN's Meg Tirrell explains what these new changes are and why they're happening.

Published 2:19 PM EST, Thu January 11, 2024

Upgrades include 360-degree audio and deeper integration with Google's Gemini.

Last fall Googleteasedthat it was working on anall-new Google Homespeaker due out sometime in mid 2026. And while it took a tiny bit longer than expected, today the company began taking pre-orders for its latest speaker ahead of its official on-sale date of June 25.

The White House app will be automatically loaded onto DHS staff's work phones, Politico said.

The administration sent out a notice to DHS personnel on June 16, Politico said.

The Dell XPS 13 is now available, starting at $599.

But will it see the same success as the MacBook Neo?

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sat with us to discuss the Snap Specs, privacy, parental controls and more. Spoiler: He says "computing" a lot.

Snap's newly announced AR Specs might seem similar to other smartglasses, but Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says that's the wrong way to think about the product. Specs, he says, is "a new type of computer, a see-through computer."

We'll see how players react.

We’ll see how players react.

These might not be the most popular or well-known Apple Watch features, but we think they're worth using and setting up.

These features don’t usually see the spotlight.

Google has started rolling out Android 17.

Google isrolling out Android 17today, with Pixel devices getting the new mobile OS first before it makes its way to more Android phones throughout the year.Gemini Intelligence, the company's new context-aware AI system that can accomplish multi-step tasks for you, is also coming to select advanced devices this summer.

Wear OS 7 is now live for Pixel watches, with a new interface, notifications and Gemini features.

Create your own widgets using Gemini's natural language features.

The company is taking paid reservations for a launch later this year.

Xreal's first Android XR glasses will go on sale later this year, the company announced at the Augmented World Expo event in Long Beach, California. The frames, once called "Project Aura" and now just known as "Aura," are possibly the most ambitious take on what Google's homegrown AR platform can do.

A pair of prototype Ray Ban Meta glasses at AWE 2026 show that NFC charging can achieve similar performance to the pogo pins common in smart glasses today.

If you've been testing and writing about smartglasses for as long as I have then you're used to a lot of questions along the lines of "why do they look like that?" Though smartgasses have come a long way in the last few years, most frames are still significantly thicker than the eyewear most people are used to wearing.