Healtify is adding live conversation capabilities to its AI assistant, powered by OpenAI's realtime APIs

Japan’s Askul still can’t run all its sites, but at least the fax line held up OK Japanese e-tailer Askul has resumed online sales, 45 days after a ransomware attack.…

Researchers discovered that 168 common chemicals can disrupt the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, with some also promoting antibiotic resistance. Many of these substances—found in food, water, and household items—weren’t previously suspected of affecting living organisms. A new machine learn...

Researchers have solved the decades-old mystery behind how a common pregnancy drug lowers blood pressure. It turns out the medication blocks a fast-acting “oxygen alarm” inside cells. That same alarm helps brain tumors survive, meaning the drug unexpectedly weakens them, too. The discovery could...

Scientists found that combining oxytocin with an Alk5 inhibitor revitalized extremely old male mice, boosting their lifespan and strength. Female mice showed only short-term improvements, highlighting a major sex difference in aging biology. The therapy restored youthful protein patterns in blood an...

Amazon Web Services giant tech conference is happening this week with news ranging from chips to AI services.

If the product name sounds familiar, it should. It's a collab with Nvidia that combines AWS tech with the chip maker's tech.

The acquisition price for the events marketplace is a fraction of the $1.76 billion valuation it achieved during its 2018 IPO.

The latest funding comes less than two months after Kalshi announced that it raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Google is testing how to make it easier to move from search to an AI chat in a new global test.

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced three new AI agents it calls "Frontier agents" for coding, security, and DevOps.

On Wednesday evening at Playground Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don't understand yet will explain what's coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025, and truly, the lineup is ridiculous.

Antares is designing and building small modular reactors that it plans to deploy for commercial, space, and defense applications.

The donation will help seed new Trump-branded investment accounts.

Bryan Johnson livestreamed his shrooms trip -- which included both Grimes and Marc Benioff -- as part of his controversial longevity research.

The rollout of the new Android 16 features, which are first coming to Pixel devices, marks a new chapter in how Android updates work, as the company is shifting from a single yearly update to more frequent releases.

Players with a Netflix subscription can now download the game, which features mobile-friendly controls, including touch-screen shooting and navigation. It's important to note that the game does not feature a multiplayer mode and players must be connected to the internet to play; offline gameplay is ...

ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps were up on Black Friday year-over-year, with Walmart and Amazon benefiting the most.

Amazon Web Services announced four new AI models within its Nova model family and a frontier model service.

Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest victim of Clop's smash-and-grab spree against Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) customers, with the Ivy League school now warning more than a thousand individual...

The app, which was criticised at launch for its $11.99 (£9) a month fee, will close on 31 December.

OpenAI clarified that the app suggestion was not an advertisement, but instead a poor attempt to integrate an app discovery feature within conversations.

Discord users can now purchase digital game items directly within the platform, create wishlists, and send gifts through DMs.

YouTube Recap features a set of up to 12 different cards that highlight a user's top channels, interests, the evolution of their viewing habits, and which personality type they fall into based on the videos they loved to watch.

We sent over a dozen questions to Mixpanel's CEO about the company's data breach. Here's what we want to know.

Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas this week, and you can follow the keynotes live right here.

Operation Olympia pulls Swiss servers offline and scoops up 12TB of data in latest crime infrastructure crackdown Law enforcement agencies in Germany and Switzerland have shut down cryptocurrency laundering platform Cryptomixer in Europe's latest pushback against cybercrime infrastructure.…

The new "ultra-fast" delivery option will allow Amazon to better compete with services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart.

Scientists have discovered that a single gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness—something previously thought to stem only from many genes acting together. People with certain variants of this gene often develop psychiatric symptoms much earlier than expected, sometimes in childhood instea...

Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag on Kensington and Chelsea Council has admitted that data was quietly lifted from its systems during last week's cyber meltdown, confirming that the outage was not just an IT faceplant but a bona fide data breach.…

Nitrous oxide may offer quick, short-term relief for people with major depression, especially those who haven’t responded to standard medications. The meta-analysis found rapid improvements after a single dose and more sustained benefits after repeated treatments. Side effects were generally mild ...

Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in vertebrate eyes. This growth is surprisingly regulated by environmental light via a vertebrate-like c-opsin. The discovery reveals deep evolutionary parallels between distant speci...

Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the dark US edtech provider Illuminate Education just got dinged by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly failing to keep an attacker from pilfering data on 10 million students.…

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one of Rome’s earliest monumental civic structures. Its central placement hints that early Romans were already experimenting with dramatic public spaces centuries before the icon...

The central bank says US stock price valuations are their most stretched since the dotcom bubble burst.

Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and change their orbital behavior. This leads the stars to interact much sooner than expected, potentially tr...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea sediments show that ancient Antarctic waters once trapped vast amounts of carbon, only to release it during ...

It will be able to monitor changes in brain function just minutes after weapon use, scientists say.

India wants all smartphone makers to pre-install new devices with a state-owned cyber security app.

Social media users have called the luxury Italian fashion brand's artificial intelligence-made adverts "cheap" and "lazy".

Dolichospermum, a type of cyanobacteria thriving in Lake Erie’s warming waters, has been identified as the surprising culprit behind the lake’s dangerous saxitoxins—some of the most potent natural neurotoxins known. Using advanced genome sequencing, researchers uncovered that only certain stra...

Researchers have found a small but powerful switch inside breast cancer cells that helps them survive stressful conditions. When this switch flips, the cells activate protective programs that make them tougher and faster-growing. The finding reveals how tumors use stress to their benefit. It may ope...

And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the ...

Plus: Aussie Wi-Fi phisher and Brit dark web dealer nailed Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi traps in Australia, and a dark web drug empire in rural England.…

Scientists have found that common foods can contain hidden contaminants formed during cooking or through environmental exposure. A new testing method called QuEChERS helps identify these chemicals more quickly and with greater ease. The research showed strong accuracy and high sensitivity across mul...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This supports the idea that alcohol exposure is not a modern human invention but an ancient primate habit. The w...

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Only a select few continue into later life, mainly for the love of the game Young threat actors may be rebels without a cause. These cybercriminals typically grow out of their offending ways by the time they turn 20, according to data published by the Dutch government.…

A high-speed “zap-and-freeze” method is giving scientists their clearest view yet of how brain cells send messages. By freezing tissue at the instant a signal fires, researchers revealed how synaptic vesicles behave in both mouse and human neurons. These insights could help explain why most Park...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These phases are separated by sudden turning points that mark big shifts in how the brain is organized. The most surprising discovery is that adolescent-style development lasts int...