Technology

Iran has a fleet of dolphins specially trained to attack enemy ships in Kamikaze-style suicide missions, it has been reported.The military marine mammals were also trained to kill enemy frogmen - military scubadivers - with harpoons strapped onto their heads.Originally trained...

Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that he wants to work on brain-controlling wearable and implantable technology, and Facebook’s recent acquisition of CTRL-labs was a step in that direction.“The goal is to eventually make it so that you can think something and control...

Artificial intelligence can predict a person’s chances of dying within a year by looking at heart test results – even when they look normal to doctors. How it does so is a mystery.Brandon Fornwalt at healthcare provider Geisinger in Pennsylvania,...

Seoul, South Korea — North Korea confirmed Friday it conducted its third test-firing of a new "super-large" multiple rocket launcher it says expands its ability to destroy enemy targets in surprise attacks.The latest launches extended a months-long streak of weapons...

A new report by Wells Fargo & Co., warns that nearly 200,000 US banking jobs are at risk of being displaced by robots.As we've explained in the past, accelerating technological advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning have...

Key Point: The concern is that once Russia and China have perfected their own hypersonic capabilities the technology will begin spreading, as it often has historically with everything from missiles to nuclear weapons technology. It is extremely likely that Iran...

It comes amid anger in Pyongyang at ongoing US-led military exercises with South Korea - which the North views as a rehearsal for invasion.And there is growing frustration in Kim Jong-un's regime at stalled talks between the US and...

Residents of two northern Russian cities are stocking up on iodine that is used to reduce the effects of radiation exposure after a mysterious accident on a nearby military testing site, regional media reported.The Ministry of Defence has given...

The riches of Silicon Valley have enabled some extravagant and quixotic projects, but they’ve got nothing on what oil money can do. A new report from The Wall Street Journal shares some of the proposals for Saudi Arabia’s biggest megaproject yet: a city built...

Asen Genov is pretty furious. His personal data was made public this week after records of more than 5 million Bulgarians got stolen by hackers from the country's tax revenue office.In a country of just 7 million people, the scale of the...