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Fairway’s parent company, Wakefern, said that biometric identifier information is “helping our store reduce retail crime” — but is the tech infringing on civil liberties?

Upper West Side store, Fairway, posts signs alerting customers that the supermarket collects, retains, stores and shares information to identify customers. Lynda Baquero reports.

A weeks-long music, arts and technology festival is heading to the Garden State this summer. Gov. Phil Murphy, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Asbury Park Mayor John Moor, and Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small, Jr. jointly announced Monday the North to Shore Festival which will kick off on June 7. The festival will be hosted by three cities: Atlantic City (June…

Apple’s Crash Detection feature allows users to connect with emergency services after a severe crash even when cellular and Wi-Fi coverage isn’t available.

“Once you send that photo, you can’t take it back,” goes the warning to teenagers, often ignoring the reality that many teens send explicit images of themselves under duress, or without understanding the consequences.

Smartphone companies are increasingly working to make phones last for longer amid pressure from regulators to make electronics devices more sustainable.

ChatGPT is an impressive but controversial writing tool that can generate paragraphs of human-like text.

The sentence in the 1996 Communications Decency Act is only 26 words long, but it has influenced how the biggest tech companies operate.

Presidents’ Day weekend is here, which means the return of big holiday deals and savings for shoppers. Before you ring up at the register, take a look at some of the names offering big deals this weekend and through the rest of February.  Looking to spice up your wardrobe? J. Crew is giving a 40% discount, both in stores and…

Some early adopters of the new Bing have shared screenshots on social media of its hostile or bizarre answers, in which it claims it is human, voices strong feelings and is quick to defend itself.

Artificial intelligence experts warned that large language models have issues including “hallucination,” which means that the software can make stuff up.

Blade Air Mobility and Beta Technologies have successfully completed the first test flight over the greater New York City area. The ALIA-250 trial run took place at Westchester County Airport.

While flying cars aren’t quite available yet, electric air taxis may be moving closer to a reality in the tri-state.

Musk said he needs to stabilize the organization of the company before he appoints a new CEO

Dubai again is planning for the takeoff of flying taxis in this futuristic city-state on the Arabian Peninsula.

A company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors.

NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal talks to Drexel professor Dr. Tim Gorichanz about how AI is now quickly producing novels, term papers, pictures and other things. There are concerns from privacy to students not actually learning the material that come with the rise of A.I. ChatGPT even manages to make a news story for Randy.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that he was “deeply concerned” about the Chinese government’s artificial intelligence program, asserting that it was “not constrained by the rule of law.”

Twitter on Saturday blocked searches for a series of hashtags and keywords used to promote the sale of child sex abuse material (CSAM) following an investigation by NBC News posted the day before. 

These are the most interesting innovations from CES 2023, which included avocado scanners, exercise bike desks and cars that can change color.