Meta is in talks to make a multibillion-dollar investment into AI startup Scale AI, according to people familiar with the matter. The financing could exceed $10 billion in value, some of the people said, making it one of the largest private company funding events of all time. […] Scale AI, Read more…
The age-adjusted death rate in the US for cancer has declined by about a third since 1991, meaning people of a given age have about a third lower risk of dying from cancer than people of the same age more than three decades ago… The dramatic bend in the curve Read more…
Apple unveiled iPadOS 26 at its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, introducing what appears to be the most significant productivity overhaul in the tablet operating system’s history. The update brings dynamically resizable windows that users can drag by their corners, a menu bar accessible through swipe gestures or cursor movement, Read more…
Apple today introduced Liquid Glass, a new design language that brings transparency and glass shine effects across macOS, iPadOS, iOS, and its other software platforms. Alan Dye, Apple’s VP of human interface, described the update as the company’s “broadest design update, ever” and “the first time we’re introducing a universal Read more…
“In recent years, scientists have devised powerful genetic tools that may be able to eradicate mosquitoes and other pests once and for all. But along with the ability to fight malaria, dengue, West Nile virus and other serious diseases, the development of this technology also raises a profound ethical question: Read more…
Last year’s Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs, the Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinformation. The congressionally ordered probe took investigators back to the 1980s, Read more…
Startup Nord Quantique has demonstrated that a single piece of hardware can host an error-detecting logical qubit by using two quantum frequencies within one resonator. The breakthrough has the potential to slash the hardware demands for quantum error correction and deliver more compact and efficient quantum computing architectures. The company Read more…