Emerging Tech

A state Supreme Court justice is expected to issue an order sometime today confirming a fine of more than half a million dollars against a cryptocurrency mining company in Niagara Falls.

Ed-tech developers have released a slew of programs in recent weeks to detect AI-generated writing, hoping to address widespread concern among educators about students plagiarizing answers from AI chatbot programs.

The North Dakota University System is recruiting leaders and planning seminars to combat the negative effects of artificial intelligence and discuss the potential for further applications in curriculum development.

Like most schools, the University of Texas at San Antonio has yet to clearly define how students can use AI chatbots that can answer essay prompts and math problems, but professors hope the strategy isn't a simple ban.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday granted California-based Universal Hydrogen clearance to proceed with a first flight of its hydrogen-powered Dash-8-300 test airplane at Moses Lake.

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and optimizing it for the classroom will require a careful accounting of its implications, both good and bad: for tutoring, assessments, data security and other functions.

Drones are playing an integral part in keeping birds away from dangerous power lines by placing robotic bird diverters on the lines. Some 1,500 new bird diverters have been launched to protect Atlantic City Electric infrastructure.

A lot has happened in the past 12 months regarding human microchip implants. Here’s your roundup of recent developments.

Cryptocurrency scams are increasing, with about 46,000 people reporting they've lost more than $1 billion, the Denver office of the FBI warns. Cryptocurrency can be both the investment and the payment in these scams.

In Massachusetts, the latest piece of technology to take the Internet by storm — ChatGPT— helped craft a bill aimed at regulating AI. But, the lawmaker behind the bill says the tech isn't ready to write laws without help.

Colossal says it has secured $150 million in funding from several venture capital firms, including the United States Innovative Technology Fund and In-Q-Tel — a VC firm funded in part by the CIA — for the dodo comeback.

Responding to concerns about students using chatbot programs like ChatGPT to do their homework for them, OpenAI developed a classifier tool that can, with limited accuracy, identify text generated by an AI chatbot.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has begun a one-year pilot project to deploy smarter technology at the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the George Washington Bridge to help improve traffic operations.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s newly released framework provides organizations a pathway to use artificial intelligence technology in a way that reduces risk.

While they acknowledge concerns about an AI tool that can write essays for students, professors from the University of Hartford, University of Connecticut and Yale also see its limits and a need to redesign assessments.

Some school districts have already blocked access to the AI chatbot ChatGPT for its potential to facilitate academic dishonesty, but some English teachers say it might still become a useful part of the writing process.

ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot created by OpenAI. So what are the opportunities and risks with using this technology across different domains?

Having given ChatGPT a "B to B-" on its answers to questions from his final exam in operations management, Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch remains optimistic about AI's potential use in the classroom.