Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds of years earlier than other ancient scripts.

The Justice Department is asking for Alphabet to sell the Chrome web browser. The demand is part of a larger antitrust case. A decision on the matter is expected in 2025. The news was the latest ...

The leader of a preschool in Washington, D.C., is now facing a federal charge for allegedly directing an undercover officer posing as a father "to abuse his child," the Justice Department says.

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Listen to Story A college student asked Google’s AI, Gemini, for homework help and received a shocking message The student and his sister were left deeply shaken, calling the response malicious and ...

A student seeking homework help from Google's Gemini chatbot faced shocking threats, raising concerns about AI safety and accountability. Listen to Story Google’s Gemini chatbot sends harmful threats ...

A student in the United States received a threatening response from Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini, while using it for assistance with homework. The chatbot encouraged the ...

When a graduate student asked Google's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini, a homework-related question about aging adults on Tuesday, it sent him a dark, threatening response that ...

Eleanor Bryant may have prevented the deaths of preschool students during a crash on Monday afternoon. Police said the death toll could have been much higher, after a water truck careered into a ...

A 43-year-old woman has died and a three-year-old boy is injured after a truck careered into the grounds of a preschool north-west of Melbourne on Monday afternoon. The truck driver is in hospital ...

“If you look at the preschool learning standards in most states, they focus on what you might call fairly superficial skills, like, ‘can count to 20, knows at least 10 letters of the alphabet ...

The early years are critical to children's development, and as that awareness has grown, so has interest in preschool. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than two-thirds of U.S. 4-year-olds were ...