Zenity Raises $125 Million as Enterprises Confront the Security Risks of Autonomous AI Agents

Zenity has raised $125 million in Series C funding as businesses move artificial intelligence agents from controlled experiments into systems capable of accessing data, invoking software tools and com [...]

Solar energy just had its best-ever month in the UK — as the first plug-in solar kits prepare to go on sale within weeks

Solar energy just set a new record in the UK, supplying more power to the grid than in any previous month. And it will soon get another boost from the legalisation of plug-in solar in weeks. [...]

Americans don’t want to live to be 120—even if they could

Radical life extension—pushing humans’ maximum age well beyond the natural average—is all the rage. Self-proclaimed futurist Ray Kurzweil wants us to hit the supplements and reset our biochemist [...]

It’s stronger than steel and paper thin, but graphene isn’t living up to its promise

If the film classic The Graduate were being made today, it’s likely that, in delivering his iconic line, Walter Brooke would lean into Dustin Hoffman’s ear and offer a new career path: “graphene [...]

Why the next decade’s hot space race revolves around the moon

If China’s just-launched Chang’e 3 lunar probe (quaintly known as the Jade Rabbit) drops its robotic rover down on the Moon’s surface in mid-December as scheduled, it will be the first soft land [...]

How space travel will help broaden your vacation-home options here on Earth

Traveling from London to your second home in Zurich is no longer such a hassle thanks to the advent of suborbital space travel options, say consultants Knight Frank in a new report on property option [...]

The future of US air travel doesn’t look pretty

I had a terrible travel experience earlier this week, trying to get from New York’s LaGuardia Airport back down the east coast to my home airport in North Carolina. And I wasn’t alone. My misery w [...]

10 things that will get even weirder in the next US presidential campaign

As the US presidential campaign of 2012 comes to a close, one indisputable fact is that it has been the strangest in living memory, probably since the late 19th century. As a political junkie since ch [...]

OK Glass? Google gives an augmented peek at a transparent future

Until this week, we’ve mainly had the initial show-and-tell promo, runway shots and some random viewings of street tests to learn more about Glass, Google’s hotly anticipated augmented reality spe [...]