"Digital authoritarianism" refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. China remains the master practitioner. There, sweeping surveillance and censorship ...

“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. But this problem is no longer confined to Moscow or Beijing. Democracies, too, are ...

It has become impossible to cross the main avenues of Dakar, Lagos or Abidjan without being filmed. Behind the lenses of the cameras being installed across many West African cities lies, in most cases ...

The agreement is important for both nations, as Canada seeks new markets away from the United States and Germany tries to diversify its energy supply. By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ian Austen Matina ...

In this intense real-life challenge, a group races up a mountain while being chased by “zombies,” all for a single spot on a hovering helicopter. With only one seat available, alliances quickly fall ...

As the U.S. seeks to enforce a blockade on Iranian exports and potentially board Iran-linked ships outside the Middle East in the coming days, the country faces a significant revenue hit if the ...

A venerable IRS program called Free File allows 70% of taxpayers to file their taxes for free, just as the name implies. Only 2% of taxpayers used the service in 2024. That is the finding of a ...

Tom started his career as a daily newspaper reporter in metro Detroit and after a decade changed course to cover cars, spending the next 25 years at Wards Automotive doing test drives, technology and ...

CNOS is a simple three-stage approach for CAD-based novel object segmentation. It is based on Segmenting Anything, DINOv2 and can be used for any objects without retraining. CNOS outperforms the ...

Amazon customers can now file a claim under its $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which resolved allegations of deceptive enrollment practices in the retailer's Prime shopping ...

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Caracas and Washington have reached a deal to export up to $2 billion worth of Venezuelan crude to the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, ...