Technology changes things. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. When a powerful new technology arrives, it offers us wishes. Too often, we waste them, asking it to take on simple chores or offer us trivial conveniences. We’re in the biggest moment of technical …

On May 8, we’re going live to answer your questions about the Musk v. Altman trial that could determine the fate of OpenAI.

Anthropic's Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a "small group of unauthorised users," Bloomberg reports. An unnamed member of the group, identified only as "a third-…

The U.S. aviation system is being modernized — but FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford and other leaders say it will take more money to make the system more efficient and flexible.

Incoming CEO John Ternus is stepping into Tim Cook's shoes at a time when Apple is looking to prove it can still innovate and stay competitive in AI.

NextSense's EEG-equipped wireless earbuds are an intriguing idea, but I'm not sure if sleep-tracking can save me from constant tiredness.

Apple has been embroiled in a six-year legal battle over one of its Apple Watch health apps. The end may finally be in sight.

Apple is evaluating four camera upgrades for future iPhone models, with the first new feature scheduled for this year's iPhone 18 Pro models, according to a reputable Chinese leaker. The Weibo-based account Digital Chat Station claims that Apple has impl…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in contrast to Anthropic's recent moves, OpenAI would err on the side of giving more people access to AI models.

All it takes is one good vintage image to make you stop and reminisce about your youth. That’s the power of a good photo—it opens the door to a deep yearning for the ‘good old days’ and reminds you of how things used to be. A simpler time and, arguably, a bet…

Itanium was once meant to be the next step in computing, to compete with the likes of IBM, Sun and DEC, but also for Intel to have an architecture that couldn’t be taken from it, as the PC wa…

An alleged pair of open-ear buds from Samsung had its design discovered, and it might debut as the "Galaxy Buds Able."

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell ami…

Lee Harris / Financial Times: Documents and sources: insurers including QBE and Beazley are moving to cap cyber policy payouts for losses and regulatory fines tied to AI use and “LLMjacking”  —  Beazley and QBE are among the groups proposing to limit losses f…

Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the ‌world, Gartner increased i…

What's been pitched as the most dangerous AI model in the world allegedly has a giant security hole.

Bloomberg reports that amid recent leadership changes at Apple, Mike Rockwell, who created the Vision Pro and now oversees efforts to revamp Siri, has considered leaving or reducing his role at the company. Here are the details. more…

LedgerStore became a case study for DynamoDB, and system design publications keep praising it to this day. But the design was abandoned 3 years after it went live.

Microsoft could be forced to reimburse $2.8 billion to 60,000 UK-based businesses for overcharging customers for its Windows Server software on competing cloud platforms at higher rates than its own Azure service.

By Colleen Howe and Sethuraman N R BEIJING/NEW DELHI, April 22 (Reuters) - In the rolling, wind-swept grasslands of Chifeng in northern China's Inner...

When people talk about “nature,” they’re generally talking about things that aren’t made by human beings. Rocks. Reefs. Red wolves. But while there is plenty of God’s creation to go around, it is hard to think of anything on Earth that human hands haven’t aff…

With US defense spending set to exceed $1T in 2026, few programs reflect that scale better than Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighter.

Honor Just Made Malaysia Its Global Launch Pad for the Honor 600Malaysia doesn’t always get to be first. So when HONOR chose Kuala Lumpur as the global stage for the HONOR 600 Series launch, it felt...

Whenever something genuinely catches our attention, the first instinct is often to pass it along. It’s a pretty universal impulse, and one that says a lot about human curiosity. That is exactly what r/interesting is all about. The subreddit is packed with ran…

A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far humanoid robots have come—and how far they haven’t

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For decades, researchers suspected this might be possible but coul…

Car brand Lexus has unveiled a Milan design week installation designed to be experienced in motion with shifting viewpoints informed by movement across land, sea and air, as captured in this video produced by Dezeen. Titled Space, the exhibition is centred on…

The deal combines advanced voice AI technology with digital messaging, aiming to enhance enterprise customer engagement worldwide.

Rumors about Apple testing a 200MP rear camera for the iPhone have been circulating for a while, with the first leak emerging in May last year. Now, a tipster suggests that the first iPhone to feature a 200MP sensor may not arrive until 2028. According to ti…

Apple has announced the availability of Tap to Pay on iPhone in Malaysia, allowing independent sellers, small merchants, and large retailers in the region to use ‌iPhones‌ as a payment terminal. Tap to Pay allows iPhones to accept payments via Apple Pay,…

Plugging your phone into a USB wall socket is generally safe, but public ports are a different story. Here's what to know before you connect anywhere.

Los Angeles deserves its reputation as the quintessential car city—the rhythms of its 2,200 square miles are dictated by wide boulevards and concrete arcs of freeways. But it once had a world-class rail transit system, and for the last three decades, the city…

This Chair at Milan Design Week Looks Like a Forest Grew a SeatThe armchair has been one of the most contested territories in furniture design for over a century, from Alvar Aalto’s bent plywood experiments to Arne...

Ryan Pagelow’s ‘Buni Comics’ have already shown Bored Panda readers just how far absurd humor can go, whether he’s turning modern technology into bleakly funny dystopias or building entire worlds around hot dogs with feelings. This time, we’re stepping into a…

AI is exciting, fast-moving and, yes, scary. It’s fine not to get everything right but learning from history will help.

The elevation of John Ternus suggests that Apple's future is about hardware differentiation; then, the SpaceX-Cursor deal makes a lot of sense.

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • What Do You Believe About Investing? Asking questions about what an investor believes, or what their investment philosophy is, can increasingly feel like a mundane tick box exercise quickly covered by some generic, unfal…

“A picture is worth a thousand words”—a phrase most of us have heard before. And for a reason. Photographs can capture loads of information in just a split second and immortalize it for years to come. By freezing moments, photographers enable us to travel to …

That’s a question thousands of Canadians who receive a letter back from Canada’s prime minister may be asking in the not-too-distant future as the government contemplates a plan to replace some of the people who handle his correspondence with new technology l…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy spoke with Kris Van Cleave about artificial intelligence technology in air traffic control, and Spirit Airlines' request for a government bailout.

CRISPR screening shows that claudin-4 is a receptor for the pro-carcinogenic B. fragilis toxin on colonic epithelial cells, and that this interaction promotes cleavage of E-cadherin, leading to epithelial barrier disruption and inflammation.

Fresh takes on Apollo’s famous “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” images showed off our planet’s beauty just weeks before Earth Day

Milan design week is the most significant event in the global design calendar. But what shapes the city's creative scene for the other 51 weeks of the year? Jane Englefield reports. Home to the world's biggest design week and a long-standing manufacturing hub…

The legendary image editing software suite also introduces halation, glass textures, and chromatic shifts, as well as a host of workflow improvements that open up new artistic possibilities. Nik Collection 9 delivers the most ambitious update in the suite's h…

For most businesses, the value of an ERP platform is not fully realised until it... The post How to Plan a Successful Acumatica ERP Integration appeared first on Social Media Explorer.

Schools, colleges and other public institutions originally had until this week to make online content accessible to people with disabilities. Now, the Justice Department has delayed that deadline.

Many implementations of AI continue to fall short when it comes to improving team collaboration.

Trump Media & Technology Group appoints digital media veteran Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, replacing Devin Nunes. The leadership change follows a period of significant financial losses and a steep decline in the company’s stock value. McGurn inherits a compan…

How a research proposal generated by artificial intelligence transformed my approach to teaching and supervision.