Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun confirmed on Thursday that he had launched a new startup — the worst-kept secret in the tech world — though he said he will not be running the new company as its CEO.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

Master Replicas has made a name for itself as a go-to company for high-quality collectibles for sci-fi's biggest franchises, from Star Wars and Star Trek to Battlestar Galactica. Now, it's entering ...

Abstract: Motion planning for deformable object manipulation has been a challenge for a long time in robotics due to its high computational cost. In this work, we propose to mitigate this cost by ...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair James Risch (R-Idaho) on Wednesday objected to what he called an “inappropriate” request by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) to commemorate slain Saudi journalist Jamal ...

The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration. The environmental group ...

Megyn Kelly ripped apart Sydney Sweeney’s showstopping silver corset dress after the sheer style went viral. “I object to this,” the conservative commentator, 54, told viewers on her talk show ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry, has announced the launch of the Next-Generation Digital Standards (NGDS) Object Model, designed to streamline digital data exchange ...

Emily Ratajkowski enjoyed a sunny boat day in Italy with friends on Thursday, dressed in an eye-popping one-piece that revealed more than it concealed. With its crisscrossed halter top, backless ...