A Spectra Physics Model A supermarket scanner—one of the first ten ever produced. A laser within the unit projects a beam onto a mirror that redirects it through the glass plate on the top. Cade ...

The Bastrop City Council on Tuesday unanimously accepted a $1,400 donation from a local nonprofit veterinary clinic to purchase six microchip scanners to help reunite lost pets with their owners.

Attackers have reduced the time to develop an exploit for a known vulnerability from 125 days to a mere half a day, thanks to the use of AI-assisted development, leaving vulnerability scanners ...

Connecticut prosecutors and police chiefs have put the brakes on the rapidly expanding acquisition by police agencies of artificial intelligence-powered law enforcement tools until the emerging ...

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

A new open-source tool called Betterleaks can scan directories, files, and git repositories and identify valid secrets using default or customized rules. Secret scanners are specialized utilities that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The OBD acronym stands for on-board diagnostics, a system built into modern vehicles that monitors the performance of the engine and other ...

Texas’ medical marijuana program is expanding, with new laws now in effect that increase access for patients across the state, including in North Texas. While much of the debate in 2025 centered on ...

Karma Kaveya ultra-luxury super-coupe EV (Source: Karma Automotive) Solid-state EV batteries, deemed the “holy grail” of battery tech, are moving from the lab to reality, even in the US. Factorial ...