Technology

In Silicon Valley, there is a group referred to as the PayPal Mafia — the founders and employees of PayPal who later started their own successful tech companies. In Charlotte, we have the Passport Mafia which springs from a company called Passport, which provided employees with experience in building a business and helped birth more than a dozen startups. Is Charlotte an entrepreneur’s kind of place?

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the virtual world. But reality bytes.

What would happen if you blocked the internet from your cellphone for two weeks? A bunch of millennial researchers wanted to answer that question. Here's what they found.

Per Scholas North Carolina has been awarded a $1 million grant. The funds will support the group’s efforts to provide training and opportunities for a career in the tech industry, with a focus on those most affected by Hurricane Helene.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is figuring out what sort of role artificial intelligence should play in schools. The district launched an online survey Monday to collect the community’s input.

Americans across the country received harmful hate messages via text after the election. The communication industry has been trying to figure out how it happened.

"Bubble butt" can leave turtles struggling to swim normally — or unable to submerge at all. A 3D-printed harness can help.

Netflix says more than 100 million people watched the fight last week, but many reported problems with the stream. What caused it? And why does streaming major live events pose such a challenge?

Construction is underway in uptown Charlotte to transform a vacant 1920s-era building into a creative hub for young entrepreneurs from underserved communities.

Apple, Google and Samsung are all working to integrate AI that can generate recipes into their virtual assistants, like Siri. People who work to develop recipes respond.