Microsoft announces AI key on Windows 11 PCs

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers. A staggering 180,000 species of butterflies and moths flit about this planet, yet their lone emoji avatar is a generic blue butterfly that looks like…

Updated Jan. 11, 2024 1:00 am ET TOKYO—China’s near-monopoly on the solar-energy market has prompted the U.S. and allies to step up the search for workarounds. Engineers believe they have found one in a type of solar cell that looks and feels like camera film. Japan is pushing the technology with subsidies and other support,…

Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a US labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction and embarrassment.” SpaceX in the lawsuit filed in Brownsville, Texas federal court claims the structure of the National Labor Relations Board, which issued…

A flood of AI-generated nudity prompts the streaming giant to abandon new rules after just two days.

Updated Jan. 8, 2024 6:31 pm ET Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion, in a bid to better position the nearly 100-year-old technology company in the era of artificial intelligence.  A deal between the two companies could be announced as soon as this week, according to…