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Your AI agent is welcome at Home Depot, as long as it shows ID. That's the message from Angie Brown, the retailer's executive vice president...
The day Mark Cuban sold his first company, he took off his watch and decided never to wear one again. A watch, he reasoned, meant he was working on...
Resident Evil Requiem closed a 10-year cycle. The series' executive producer says the next one could close the story. In a chat with Japan's...
Switching phones shouldn't feel like a negotiation with your carrier. Google may be working on a fix: a hidden Gemini connector that can handle...
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Pro scored 3.84 out of 5 for visual quality. Google DeepMind's Veo 3.1 managed 3.47. OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro got...
Every European astronaut who reaches orbit today does it on someone else's spacecraft. ESA director general Josef Aschbacher wants that to...
More than 2,100 people watched Manni L. Perez's Instagram livestream at its peak. For 12 minutes, she never acknowledged the flood of comments...
For years, Apple's answer to a touchscreen Mac was no. Steve Jobs reportedly called the idea "ergonomically terrible". On Wednesday,...
Microsoft's AI got 83.2% of complex hospital cases right. Generalist physicians given the same cases got 36%. That's the headline from a...
If you've lost count of China's internet satellite launches, you're not alone. Sunday's was the 28th group, lifting off at 10:03am...
A 39GB download sounds like it should swallow a big chunk of your Switch 2's storage. It doesn't. After the update, Call of Duty: Modern...
There are two ways to know you have a future in the AI era, Palantir CEO Alex Karp told the TBPN podcast: get vocational training or be...
On October 19, Instagram's App Store listing still showed support for only the iPhone and iPad. Four days later, your Apple TV could run it....
A monthly salary of 65,000 yuan, paid 15 times a year, adds up to 975,000 yuan. ByteDance has advertised a salary of 975,000 yuan for one AI job....
Dessa learnt to talk without ever reading a word. Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, says its new AI model was trained from scratch on...
For years, Google's promise fit in one flat sentence: no personalised ads based on your Drive, Gmail or Photos content. Since October 16, that...
The notification vanishes the moment you open WhatsApp. The message that tagged you in a busy group doesn't, but finding it can mean scrolling...
PHP is behind a large part of the internet, but a serious security flaw in the programming language has suddenly brought it into the spotlight. The...
You can now tell YouTube what to show you, in plain words. YouTube custom feeds let you describe a topic, a type of video or even a mood, and YouTube...
You could already send Instagram Reels from WhatsApp, but you had to know where to look. The option sat inside the gallery picker's list view....
Elon Musk says he feels like he's "tapping dance through a minefield". The reason: he can't take part in the talks over a Tesla...
Getting a Discovery or New Frontiers mission from announcement to second-step selection currently takes NASA about 35 months. Under a new plan, called...
Until now, opening the Tesla app on an iPad meant running the iPhone version on a bigger screen. Tesla's latest update changes that with a layout...
China's brain-computer interface market is projected to reach 6.14 billion yuan (US$919.88 million) by 2028, growing 17.7% a year from 2024,...
Two federal judges in California have already tackled whether training AI on copyrighted work is fair use, and they didn't fully agree. On...
Data centres that were deeply unpopular became "extremely popular" once a financial deal was struck, Donald Trump says. On Wednesday, he...
Want to keep a ChatGPT conversation out of your regular chat history? The Locked Chats feature lets users hide selected discussions behind a...
ChatGPT users can keep selected conversations out of their regular chat history with Locked Chats, a feature that adds a four-digit PIN requirement...
Cloudflare says well over 10 million developers now build on its platform, up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier. That's a jump of about 2.6...
Kaspersky blocked more than 1.99 million malware, adware and unwanted-software attacks on mobile devices in the second quarter of 2026, and that...
WhatsApp first tested an in-app browser on Android in 2019. Now a WhatsApp in-app browser is taking shape on iPhone, and it wants to open every link...
Each 1.4 nm wafer from TSMC is estimated to cost $45,000. That's about half as much again as a 2 nm wafer, which Digitimes put near $30,000. And...
Berlin wanted looser emissions rules. Paris wanted a tighter label. On Friday, each got what it came for, and Chinese carmakers are the obvious...
A three-hour, 52-minute documentary about Elon Musk has lost its TikTok account for good, and nobody will tell you which rule it broke. TikTok told...
Stand beside Curiosity at dawn, and you wouldn't see a red planet or a blue one. You'd see murky light-tan cliffs and almost no colour in...
Fifty deaths or serious injuries, or $1 billion in damage. That's how bad a frontier AI model's risk would have to be before the government...
A car that flips itself in mid-air and a video game trailer were both released on the same evening. On Thursday, hours after Rockstar released the GTA...
The American dream in GTA 6 isn't a mansion or a megayacht. According to Rockstar's head of narrative, "Maybe the American dream is...
You ask a friend, "Where are you?" on WhatsApp. They reply, "How do I send my location?" Now you're their tech support. This...
Physicists went through 250 answers that AI models got "wrong" on physics benchmarks. Only 12 were genuine physics errors by the model....
You'd expect a dead star to look white, and roughly 29 in 30 white dwarfs do. A team at the University of Warwick says the rest can glow pink,...
Eight years separate Red Dead Redemption 2 from GTA 6, and Rockstar's top developers say they don't want the next gap to be that long. The...
Bank of America hired 1,000 outside contractors to patch software flaws exposed by powerful AI models, and they haven't left. CEO Brian Moynihan...
For 27 years, roughly 100 chemical fingerprints sat unexplained in Hubble's data. Now astronomers at the University of Warwick think they point...
Demis Hassabis thinks the AI hacking incidents you've read about this year are the small ones. The Google DeepMind co-founder told Ireland's...
Picture a scar roughly 700 light-years long, carved into the X-ray sky by something nobody can identify. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has...
Ask a chatbot what something costs, and it will almost always give you a number. That's the problem. The habit is about to go mainstream. Adobe...
You know the post-party ritual. Everyone shot forty photos; nobody has the same ones, and the group chat becomes a slow-motion file transfer. Google...
If you scrolled past a glowing, tentacled blob hanging over your social media, you weren't looking at a UFO. You were looking at a space...
The UAE has built an asteroid lander that engineers don't expect to survive its own arrival. After an eight-year trip of about 5 billion km, the...