From its Skagit County site and elsewhere, Bellevue-based PACCAR is among companies leading the charge in creating autonomous trucking. Successes could lead to a major shake-up in the freight industry. Unions worry about the loss of trucking jobs.
More job-seekers, including some professionals, may soon have to accept impersonal online interviews where they never talk to another human being, or know if behind-the-scenes...
More than four centuries after the Mayflower departed from England on a historic journey to America, a robotic ship with an AI captian is retracing...
When your therapist is a bot, you can reach it at 2 a.m. But will it really understand your problems? Some psychologists and academics say...
Computer scientist Lynne Parker's job is getting the U.S. government working together — alongside businesses, research universities and international allies — as director of a...
King County joins a growing number of jurisdictions across the country that have moved to ban the technology, after a ream of studies have shown...
Days after violent conflict erupted in Israel and the Palestinian territories, both Facebook and Twitter copped to major faux pas. Experts said the issues are...
New technology for the Army combines night-vision goggles, thermal imagery and augmented reality. The goggles represent a shift away from the green-washed imagery typical of...
Twitter says its artificial intelligence algorithm that crops images before they appear in a user's timeline created "unequal treatment based on demographic differences." Users complained...
Amazon says it will extend a ban on police use of its face-recognition technology beyond the one-year pause it announced last year. One of the...
When social media platform Parler came back to life on Apple’s App Store, it was designed to be a less offensive version than what users...
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