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Cybersecurity agency warns that water utilities are vulnerable to hackers after Pennsylvania attack

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities, potentially threatening water supplies, the top U.S.

Nov 29, 2023 3:55 PM Read more >

New technology installed beneath Detroit street can charge electric vehicles as they drive

DETROIT (AP) — Crews have installed what's billed as the nation's first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street just west of downtown Detroit.

Nov 29, 2023 3:35 PM Read more >

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them?

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction.

Nov 29, 2023 11:24 AM Read more >

A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago.

Nov 29, 2023 9:57 AM Read more >

Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as federal legislation is pending

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Nov 29, 2023 9:50 AM Read more >

Toyota selling part of Denso stake to raise cash to develop electric vehicles

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is selling a part of its stake in components maker Denso to raise cash for its drive toward electric vehicles and other innovations, Japan's top automaker said Wednesday.

Nov 29, 2023 1:57 AM Read more >

Morgan Wallen tops Apple Music's 2023 song chart while Taylor Swift, SZA also lead streaming lists

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country singer Morgan Wallen ’s “Last Night” topped Apple Music’s global song chart in 2023 as the giant music streamer released year-end lists Tuesday and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes.

Nov 28, 2023 9:48 PM Read more >

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

NEW YORK (AP) — Computer-generated writers ...

Nov 28, 2023 6:40 PM Read more >

Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhere

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A ransomware attack has prompted a health care chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals while putting certain elective procedures on pause.

Nov 28, 2023 3:11 PM Read more >

Amazon launches Q, a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT. The tech giant said Tuesday it will launch Q — a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence.

Nov 28, 2023 3:07 PM Read more >