The cloud computing giant's revenue miss renews questions about its financial health.

Amin Vahdat has been promoted to chief technologist for AI infrastructure, a newly created position reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Shops, restaurants and even the local council in Lugano now accept the cryptocurrency.

The letter demanded companies institute new safeguards to keep users safe from harmful psychological impacts.

A new software option could make it possible to see the approximate location of some of Nvidia's AI chips.

This feature could help give emergency dispatchers context in circumstances like car accidents, fires, or medical crises.

More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day bug in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, and the open source project doesn't yet have a fix.…

The massive data breach at the South Korean retail giant Coupang affects more than half of the country's population.

The playlists can factor in world knowledge, go back to your listening history from day one, and be refreshed daily or weekly.

The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.

A subcontractor says he was crushed by a metal support, breaking his hip, knee, and tibia. He's suing SpaceX and the construction company that employed him.

Calibri, which could make documents easier to read for the vision impaired, was apparently installed in 2023 by the department’s then-DEI office. Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font, stating it will “restore decorum and professionalism” to documents.

The new packages will give consumers more flexibility over the content that they want to pay for. YouTube notes that users will still get access to popular features like unlimited DVR, multiview, key plays, and fantasy view.

Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility A Ukrainian woman accused of hacking US public drinking water systems and a meat processing facility on behalf of Kremlin-backed cyber groups was extradited to the US earlier thi...

Obesity accelerates the rise of Alzheimer’s-related blood biomarkers far more rapidly than previously recognized. Long-term imaging and plasma data show that obese individuals experience much faster increases in proteins linked to neurodegeneration and amyloid buildup. Surprisingly, blood tests de...

By adding AI-powered article overviews, Google says users will get more context before they click through to read an article.

Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free e-books in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who set their titles as DRM-free will see their books made available in these more open formats.

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon fixation in the sunless depths, experiments show that other microbes—especially heterotrophs—are d...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by water-rich ices. The findings also help explain their bizarre, multi-poled magnetic fields and open t...

This is ChatGPT's first year as the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store by downloads.

The e-commerce giant says it will expand the service to additional cities in 2026.

Oboe has raised $16 million in funding for its learning app. The company now lets users generate unlimited courses for free.

Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.

Unacademy's valuation has dropped by over 85% from its pandemic-era peak price tag of $3.5 billion, its founder said.

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like a stabilizer that sets everything up correctly from the start. This simple shift in understandin...

The media regulator Ofcom said AVS Group Ltd had started age checks on some of its porn websites.

Tavus has launched a new experience where you can chat with an AI Santa that asks personal questions and remembers your interests.

Figma is launching a new image editing toolbar to bring all its features in one place.

A Virginia Tech study shows that ultra-processed foods may influence adolescents differently from slightly older young adults. Participants aged 18 to 21 ate more at a buffet and snacked even when not hungry after two weeks on an ultra-processed diet. Because eating without hunger predicts future we...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching seismic observations that have puzzled scientists for decades. The mobility of these light elements...

McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".

New research is challenging one of medicine’s oldest assumptions: that cancer must be attacked to be cured. By treating glioblastoma patients with a simple combination of resveratrol and copper, the researchers found dramatic reductions in tumor aggressiveness, cancer biomarkers, immune checkpoint...

India, which is an emerging AI and cloud infrastructure hub, has witnessed a surge of global tech investment recently.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing a world with an enormously inflated, weakly bound atmosphere under intense stellar heat. The detection of helium, water, and various chemical compounds—a...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers found a specialized region in the auditory cortex that reacts distinctly to chimp vocalizations, ...

Researchers discovered that unusually high temperatures can hinder early childhood development. Children living in hotter conditions were less likely to reach key learning milestones, especially in reading and basic math skills. Those facing economic hardship or limited resources were hit the hardes...

The new law requires tech platforms to ensure that Australians aged under 16 don't hold accounts.

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, and intent. Initial clinical work shows it can be ins...

Teenagers affected by Australia's under-16 social media ban showed the BBC what happened when they tried to access their accounts.

Today, Meesho, one of India's leading online retail and merchant tools companies, goes public. It is the second YC company to be listed in India.

The survey found people in the UK spent on average four hours and 30 minutes online every day in 2025

A popular streamer tells us about the downsides of making online content.

It is a significant turnaround for the tech giant after its first attempt - Google Glass - was pulled in 2015.

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in stunning detail using only a rotating LED light and simple microscopy equipment. It works on any t...

Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one that supports symbiosis. Early success in barley hints that cereals may eventually be engineered to f...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their results match “local” measurements but clash with early-universe estimates, strengthening the mysterious Hubble tension. This mismatch could point to new physics rather than ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and XRISM, astronomers caught the blast unfold in real time, revealing how tangled magnetic fields can ra...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star formation, shifts in flowing gas, and even streams of metal-poor material from a galaxy’s outskirts can...

It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers.