SAN ANTONIO – It is the first task force of its kind in Texas. A newly passed law, Senate Bill 1946, requires the 21-person group to take a hard look at domestic violence deaths in Texas and report ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

Abstract: Cooking tasks remain a challenging problem for robotics due to their complexity. Videos of people cooking are a valuable source of information for such task, but introduces a lot of ...

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it. The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it's working on important behind the scenes platform changes for Windows 11 that are expected to ship later this year. Today, the company began testing a new wave of ...

NATURE BRIEFING 12 January 2026 Daily briefing: The neural circuit that can make it hard to start a difficult task A ‘motivation brake’ in our brains makes taking that first step towards a task less ...

Workdays without busywork are closer to reality than ever, thanks to artificial intelligence. AI tools that can sort and summarize emails, take meeting notes and file expense reports promise to free ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

OpenAI has quietly rolled out 'formatting blocks,' which tweak GPT's layout to match the UI of the task it is supposed to execute. ChatGPT has different use cases, including writing emails or blogs.

A group of Michigan House lawmakers, all Republicans, has created the Michigan DOGE Task Force with the intent of streamlining government. The effort was launched by state Rep. James DeSana, ...

Gov. Mike DeWine has been praising the multi-agency task forces working in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Dayton. DeWine said the task forces, which involve cooperation of local, state, and federal ...