Technology

Tinder is testing out a new facial recognition feature as it seeks to reduce fraud and build trust among its customer base. The West Hollywood-based company, which is owned by online dating company Match Group, is now mandating that California users verify their identity through a feature called Face Check when setting up their accounts….

Scanning the heavens at the Vatican Observatory – CBS News Watch CBS News Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help bridge the chasm between religion and science. Correspondent Seth Doane…

AI is helping to solve an ancient mystery involving Mount Vesuvius. Here’s how. – CBS News Watch CBS News Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire. It involves scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. CBS News’ Chris Livesay reports. Be the…

In recent days, videos generated by artificial intelligence have surfaced online purporting to show dramatic scenes from the Iran-Israel conflict, including an AI-generated woman reporting from a burning prison in Tehran and fake footage of high-rise buildings reduced to rubble in Tel Aviv. Other fabricated visuals depict a downed Israeli military aircraft. These clips, some…

Bumble will lay off roughly 30% of its workforce, or 240 employees, according to a regulatory filing filed by the online dating company on Wednesday.  The jobs cuts come as the company moves to reduce costs and refocus on growing its customer base. Bumble estimates the layoffs, which are slated to take place in the second…

SpaceX rocket lifts off for historic mission with veteran astronaut – CBS News Watch CBS News A SpaceX rocket blasted off on a historic two-week mission to the international Space Station, carrying astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary – three countries that haven’t been to space in decades. It is led by veteran NASA astronaut…

Anthropic has won a major legal victory in a case over whether the artificial intelligence company was justified in hoovering up millions of copyrighted books to train its chatbot.  In a ruling that could set an important precedent for similar disputes, Judge William Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of…

First fully robotic heart transplant in U.S. gives Houston man a second chance at life – CBS News Watch CBS News In a medical first, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on a 45-year-old patient. He now says he’s living a brand-new life. Janet Shamlian…

Amazon’s CEO envisions an “agentic future” in which AI robots, or agents, replace humans working in the company’s offices. In a memo to employees made public by Amazon on Tuesday, CEO Andy Jassy said he expects the company to reduce its corporate workforce as soon as the next few years, as it leans more heavily on Generative…

How scammers are using AI to create fake job applicants – CBS News Watch CBS News Artificial intelligence is being used to create realistic video and audio to impersonate people, in some cases looking for love or deceiving companies looking to hire. In a 2024 study, half of the businesses surveyed said they’d experienced AI…