The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. Unearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated to ...

During World War II, a German machine gun reshaped how infantry battles were fought and remembered. This film tells the story of the MG42, a weapon whose sound, firepower, and design left a lasting ...

An AI-powered vending machine pilot turned into an unplanned lesson in what happens when you give software too much freedom in the real world. In the test, the system was reportedly nudged into ...

Automation anxiety has moved from the shop floor to the server room. India must urgently reskill its workforce or face the silent erosion of social stability India’s digital rise faces the "Hourglass ...

In hundreds of official complaints, inadvertently posted online by the Russian government, soldiers and their loved ones describe a lawless and violent military apparatus that abuses its own troops to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A former KGB officer I once interviewed in Moscow in the 1990s aired a common complaint among Soviet spies: ...

In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society. The tricky ...