Phreeli says it's the first privacy-by-design US wireless service. Sign-up only needs a ZIP code, username, and payment method. Founder aims for more privacy than major carriers. New US carrier ...

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years. Paulina Borsook in Berkeley, Calif. Her 1999 ...

Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

Bumblebees can separate dot-like and dash-like flashes in a way that resembles Morse code. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London trained the insects to use the duration of a light cue to ...

A new study shows that bumblebees can distinguish between long and short flashes of light, a skill previously seen only in humans and certain vertebrates. Credit: Shutterstock A study shows that ...

A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues. In Morse code, a short duration flash or “dot” denotes a letter “E” and a long duration ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Marcelo Calbucci, a longtime Seattle tech and startup community leader.] This month, I ran a survey with early-stage founders from Seattle-based Foundations about ...

Tech CEOs are making ambitious claims about AI's coding capabilities. In March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said "we'll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code." Meta's ...