An innovative aircraft that turns into a "lighter-than-air" balloon to propel itself forward has been flown for the first time.

A student is suing Apple Inc for $1bn (£0.77bn), claiming that its in-store AI led to his mistaken arrest.

Microsoft has been collaborating with researchers linked to a Chinese military-backed university on artificial intelligence, elevating concerns that US firms are contributing to China’s hi-tech surveillance and censorship apparatus.

Computer algorithms must show they are free of race, gender and other biases before they are deployed, US politicians have proposed.

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.

3D printing has been around for three decades, but only in the last few years has the technology become a serious contender for displacing conventional manufacturing methods now that it can achieve material strength that rivals legacy offerings and can deliver parts in a fraction of the time

There’s bad news for users of Microsoft’s eBook store: the company is closing it down, and, with it, any books bought through the service will no longer be readable.

Europe is changing the internet again. Lawmakers have approved a sweeping overhaul of copyright rules, dealing a blow to major tech companies that argued the changes will be costly and limit free expression.

Three seemingly unconnected words have helped rescue a mother and daughter after a car crash in remote rural Somerset.

In Shenzhen, China, a sprawling metropolis of over 12 million people, more than 16,000 city buses run on batteries, moving commuters to jobs and residents to shops using electricity instead of diesel.