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The feud has fuelled a costly showdown between two tech titans.

The county's case count has doubled in the last month, and the exposure sites are even more numerous.

High-throughput barcoded neuroanatomy of two closely related rodent species with divergent vocalizations reveals differences in long-range projection motifs in the brain that may support these differences in vocal complexity.

A large-scale proteomics analysis of the dark proteome by the TransCODE Consortium reveals many translated non-canonical open reading frames to encode microproteins and peptideins.

Paris Saint-Germain will look to retain their Champions League title in the final against Arsenal after eliminating Bayern Munich, winning 6-5 on aggregate.

'On Sunday, May 3rd, it was reported that a beaver at Lake Henry had contact with several people and has since tested positive for rabies,' the Mahwah Health Department said.

The rover spent five days with the rock attached to its arm before finally shaking it off.

FDA has suppressed studies on COVID-19 vaccines and Shingrix, a shingles vaccine.

One UI 8.5 is officially here, but Samsung is making some Galaxy users wait for it.

New alleged CAD renders of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro are doing the rounds on social media, offering the latest twist in the...

From the Sixers' flawed pick-and-roll coverage in a Game 1 demolition to their intentional fouling of Knicks center Mitchell Robinson and loud bench, a batch of notes before Game 2.

Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

This central processing unit renaissance was confirmed when Intel reported earnings two weeks ago. AMD and now Arm told similar stories.

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

AirAsia orders 150 A220-300 airliners in big boost for Canadian manufacturing

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

HBO Max, which has zigged and zagged more than most streaming services since its delayed launch in 2020, is now on track to hit 150 million subscribers by the end of 2026.

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

TikTok is pulling back on an AI feature that added wildly inaccurate text summaries to videos from users like Charli D'Amelio and Shakira.

"Just as carriages were eventually replaced by trains, this is bound to happen."

In a new lawsuit, two California residents allege that Cento Fine Foods doesn't use real San Marzano tomatoes in one of its products.

Real estate tycoon slams calls to tax the wealthy as "hateful" and "dangerous." Study shows decline in Americans earning a living wage.

The Motorola Razr Ultra is a powerful flip phone that introduces a new sense of style to liven up its super-smart software in a bid to take down Samsung's appealing Galaxy Z Flip 7. These are the key details you need to know.

Here's how to figure out if you have the 4GB AI model and how to get rid of it.

Just two weeks after the first preview, Google is rolling out Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2. The following issues are...

The Android operating system for Pixel smartphones is not going to take design cues from Apple and adopt a Liquid Glass aesthetic, Google Android...

A study has found that more than half of Gen Z cancels and renews streaming subscriptions based on the availability of one TV series or film.

"Be honest, because we might as well be.”

The team behind the newly released open-world gacha game apparently promised the VTuber that the AI slop would be removed before launch

Google started teasing the Fitbit Air at the end of March, and the screen-less wearable looks to be launching tomorrow.

Up to 3x the speed with no loss of quality—is it too good to be true?

We’re now just one month away from celebrating the first anniversary of the Nintendo Switch 2, and while the system has seen plenty of major releases worth celebrating, one notable app is still missing from the platform. That absence has raised some questions…

iPadOS 26.5 is launching very soon, and with it three new features for your iPad. Here’s what’s new in Apple’s latest iPad update.

Apple made a major U-turn with CarPlay after a decade of not allowing video playback. Starting with iOS 26, Apple...

With fantastic cosplay from Clair Obscur, Dispatch and The Amazing Digital Circus

These gadgets will improve your life as a new or long-time homeowner. We have versatile tools, those waiting for a disaster to strike, and cleaning devices.

The leaker "Instant Digital" today revisited their February design report on the foldable iPhone, claiming the device's internal design...

The class action lawsuit ends this Friday

HIV-1 capsid nuclear import at the nuclear pore complex is a bottleneck to resting T cell infection, but HIV-1 overcomes this by triggering receptor-mediated signalling during cell–cell spread to drive nuclear import and licence infection.

Cas12a2 enables RNA-triggered, sequence-specific killing of eukaryotic cells via widespread DNA shredding, allowing selective elimination of cells on the basis of gene expression, including virus-infected or mutation-bearing cells.

New testing is starting at Archbishop Riordan High School as officials work to keep tuberculosis cases from spreading again.

Coffee alters gut bacteria and improves mood and cognition, with both caffeinated and decaf offering distinct mental health benefits.

The man was going to the bathroom up to 30 times a day.

The outreach follows a positive case that officials have linked to foreign travel.

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in Nature, challenge what we know about the role of conscious…

Depletion of sex hormones that enable male development induces neuroinflammation that disrupts hormonal signalling and immune responses against brain tumours.

Blueberries can help lower blood pressure, making them a great addition to your diet if you've been diagnosed with hypertension.

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

A short burst of immunotherapy before surgery is delivering surprisingly powerful results for a specific type of colorectal cancer. Patients in a UK-led trial who received just nine weeks of pembrolizumab prior to surgery have remained cancer-free nearly thre…

A long-term study suggests that eating eggs regularly may be associated with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease in older adults.

A major 10-year clinical trial is turning one of the world’s most common knee surgeries on its head. Researchers found that trimming a damaged meniscus—a procedure long believed to relieve pain—offers no real benefit over placebo surgery. Even more surprising…

Stimulating hobbies like exercise, socializing and reading may help lower Alzheimer's risk, according to a new study on midlife brain health.

On August 5, 2026, a SpaceX rocket booster is going to smash into the moon at 5400 miles an hour. Bill Gray, an astronomer who notes that although astronomy is…

Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.

"This wasn't a coincidental pass — COSMOS 2583 performed several fine maneuvers to maintain this tight configuration."

"The difference is like a crowd of people who ignore each other versus one where everyone is constantly bumping into one another."

A new “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory – which could look like this artist's illustration released on April 28, 2026 – could explain what

A recent archaeological study has identified the earliest lithic heat treatment of chert in the world. Discovered in Australia, this discovery is nearly twice as old as any previously identified chert heat treatment in Eurasia. The study is published in the J…

What if the building blocks of life are more common than we thought? A recent find from an asteroid hints that the key ingredients for life might be spread out all over the universe.

Voyager 1 is losing power, and NASA just shut down a decades-old instrument to keep it going. The sacrifice could help the spacecraft continue exploring interstellar space a little longer.

Cutting-edge atomic clocks may soon reveal a strange possibility: time itself behaving like a quantum object, existing in multiple states at once.

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, Arenaerpeton supinatus, revealing an almost perfectly preserved …

Newton's gravitational constant, G, is still known to just 3 significant figures in 2026. New measurements merely highlight our uncertainty.