Enlarge / Apple's promotional image for WWDC 2023. (credit: Apple)
CUPERTINO, Calif.—At 10 am Pacific Time (1 pm EDT) this Monday, June 5, Apple will host the keynote presentation at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
Enlarge / Birds, with their different shapes, colorful plumage and fascinating behaviors, are a delight to people all over the world.
Enlarge / Grail is a subsidiary of Illumina, the world’s biggest gene sequencing company. (credit: Grail)
More than 400 patients who signed up to take a pioneering oncology detection test developed by US biotech company Grail received erroneous letters last month suggesting they may have developed cancer.
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The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some colleagues to devise a way to set the powerful language model GPT-4—the “brains” behind ChatGPT and a growing number of other apps and services—loose inside the blocky video game Minecraft.
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No wonder Google is having trouble keeping up with policing its app store.
Enlarge / The Pixel Watch. It's a round little pebble. (credit: Ron Amadeo)
Here's one of the improvements Google might want to look into for the Pixel Watch 2: better glue.
Enlarge / A Trump campaign event in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)
YouTube on Friday announced a major change in its approach to US election misinformation, saying it will no longer remove videos that make false claims about the 2020 election or previous presidential elections.
Enlarge / Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' studio at the Central Park Arsenal in New York City, with models of extinct animals. (credit: Public domain)
The original plans for New York City's Central Park included a Paleozoic Museum at 63rd Street and Central Park West, which would have displayed life-size concrete models of dinosaurs placed in carefully designed dioramas.
Enlarge / Can Boeing unlock a bright future for the Starliner spacecraft? (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)
In September 2009, Boeing announced that it would participate in NASA's new "commercial crew" program.
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In August of last year, we were somewhat shocked when Audi confirmed that it would enter Formula 1 in 2026.
Enlarge / A Maryland digital ID. (credit: Google)
Google Wallet on Android is finally getting ready for your digital driver's license and other US state IDs.
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Twitter VP of Product Trust and Safety Ella Irwin resigned from the company yesterday, she confirmed to Reuters and other news outlets.
The "TinyTendo" project, which fits a real NES into a Game Boy-sized enclosure, isn't for the faint of heart. [credit: Redherring32/Twitter ]
If you want a portable console that can play old Nintendo Entertainment System games, the easiest option is software emulation, whether you're using Nintendo's official Switch app, a portable PC, or some cheap knockoff emulator handheld.
Enlarge / You could soon be able to wear this kind of NFT sneaker in future EA Sports titles. (credit: Nike)
After a lot of hype from game makers in 2021, big publishers have been relatively quiet on the idea of integrating non-fungible tokens into their games since the collapse of Ubisoft's "Quartz Digits" platform last year.
Enlarge / An armed unmanned aerial vehicle on runway, but orange. (credit: Getty Images)
Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had run a simulation in which an AI-controlled drone "went rogue" and "killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."
Enlarge / Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (credit: Getty | NIH/NIAID)
Law enforcement officials in Washington state have finally apprehended a Tacoma woman with tuberculosis who has refused treatment and isolation for over a year and has spent the past several months actively evading the sheriff's department's efforts to execute a civil arrest warrant against her.
Enlarge / Aerial view of a subdivision in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale. (credit: dszc via Getty)
The nation’s fifth-largest city and surrounding metropolitan area is officially tapped out of groundwater, Arizona Gov.
Enlarge / Paint's long-promised dark mode is now available to Windows Insiders. (credit: Microsoft)
In the summer of 2021, Microsoft’s efforts to redesign its software for the Windows 11 era were just kicking into high gear.
Enlarge / The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B isn't in-stock at any official Pi resellers as of this writing. (credit: Getty Images)
There will be a 1 million unit stock of Raspberry Pi products available in the month of July and every month onward until consumer backlogs are cleared, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton told hobbyists in a recent community newsletter.
Enlarge / The inner display of the Oppo Find N2. (credit: Ron Amadeo)
One of the more interesting designs we've seen in the wild world of foldable smartphones comes from the Oppo Find N2.
Enlarge / SpaceX launches its 200th Falcon 9 consecutive successful mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. (credit: SpaceX)
Welcome to Edition 5.41 of the Rocket Report!
With school out and longer days ahead, summer is the perfect season to relax, recharge, and refresh. We've got discounts on DJI's Mini 3 drone, some video games for Switch and PS5, and maybe a laptop or a smartwatch if that's your thing.
Enlarge / The Buzz is an electric interpretation of the classic T2 from 1950. (credit: Volkswagen)
Good news, everyone—it's almost Volkswagen ID Buzz time.
Enlarge / The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft jettisons the heat shield before it lands in 2019. (credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
A Boeing official said Thursday that the company was "standing down" from an attempt to launch the Starliner spacecraft on July 21 to focus on recently discovered issues with the vehicle.
The 2023 Moto Razr+ (or Moto Razr 40 Ultra internationally). [credit: Motorola ]
After endless leaks, Motorola made its fourth-generation lineup of foldables official today.
Enlarge / An MRI image of a brain with an abscess causing seizures. (credit: Getty | BSIP)
As pandemic restrictions eased, pediatricians around the country saw alarming upticks of rare brain abscesses in children under 18 years old, with national cases steeply climbing to a peak in December 2022.
Enlarge / A video still of NASA's UAP team meeting on May 31, 2023. (credit: NASA)
On Wednesday, members of the NASA advisory board tasked with studying unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) held its first public meeting, debuting its plan for how it would proceed with a report it is scheduled to write this year.
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish seen on September 25, 2022 in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (credit: Getty Images | Yasuyoshi Chiba)
The US Defense Department confirmed today that it is buying Starlink satellite broadband service for use in Ukraine.
Enlarge / The lettering "Hey Google" on the Google pavilion at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas in 2018.
