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A prosecutor in the trial of a former assistant principal facing criminal charges over a 2023 school shooting said she dismissed concerns about a gun in a student's bag.

Fans attending the opening dates of Harry ‘Together, Together’ tour have shared concerns online about obstructed views from premium floor sections.

In its latest update, the World Health Organization says there have now been 139 suspected deaths and 600 cases.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) on Tuesday introduced a range of new artificial intelligence tools at its annual I/O developer conference, including AI agents integrated directly into Search and a faster, lower-cost Gemini model aimed at enterprise custo…

Target Corp.’s turnaround gained traction last quarter, but the retailer worried investors after striking a more cautious tone about the coming months.

Around 10% of local staff to be cut, while hundreds shift into AI units in sweeping reorganization.

The "Daily Show" host also tore into the "putrid administration" of Donald Trump and predicted what comes next for America.

An American passenger who was exposed to the Andes strain of hantavirus on the cruise ship HV Hondius said he feels "blindsided" and "misled" by new orders requiring him to stay at the National Quarantine Center in Nebraska under federal supervision.

On the job for two weeks and one day, Masai Ujiri will now embark on a coaching search

The first two episodes of ‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,' Apple TV’s newest thriller-comedy, are now available to stream.

Plex is giving every prospective customer until July 1st to lock in a lifetime subscription at today’s rates — before it triples the price to a staggering $750.

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface.

If there is another pandemic in the U.S., will you have confidence in the CDC to contain it?

Speaking on CNBC, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos used the example of a nurse in Queens earning $75,000 per year as someone who shouldn't have to pay tax.

SpaceX is now targeting a Thursday, May 21, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket. See our latest updates here.

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan – Stellantis and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore opportunities t

Close to 30% of cars sold this year are set to be electric as countries and consumers respond to energy crisis - News from the International Energy Agency

Supplemental BLA seeks to expand the ANKTIVA label to include patients with BCG-unresponsive NMIBC with papillary disease FDA noted in its filing communication that the supplemental BLA accepted for review was based on the additional scientific data ImmunityB…

The man is facing criminal charges after he steered his Cybertruck into a lake on purpose. Here's why he did it, police say.

tarting June 1, the Boston area pilot program lets passengers bypass the busy departures terminal and security lanes.

Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: Fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis

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From Gemini Spark to Daily Brief, Google’s newest Android AI features are increasingly locked behind subscriptions.

Android 17's new Continue On feature lets you seamlessly move apps and tasks between your Android devices, much like Apple's Handoff.

Nature - An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software

Friends and colleagues remembered S. "Soma" Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft developer leader and Madrona managing director, as a generous mentor to developers and founders, and a fixture of Seattle's tech community.

The spatial computing experience isn't as immersive as an XR headset, but maybe it doesn't need to be.

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.

Amazon's May MacBook Pro sale delivers record-low prices on 2026 16-inch models with your choice of an M5 Pro or M5 Max chip.

Fortnite is back on the App Store in every country except Australia, Epic Games announced today, as the company declared it is entering the...

Apple announced major accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence, including new capabilities for VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control.

PC gamers are reacting to Sony making its narrative single-player games PlayStation exclusive.

Apple is still developing a large foldable iPad despite technical hurdles, and it should feature the same crease-free hinge design as Apple's...

Details on the first Festival Playlist & Car Pass

The source of the norovirus outbreak remains unknown, but sick hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail were observed near a shared water cache last week.

Adults should aim to do between 560 and 610 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial reduction in the risk of heart attacks and stroke, suggest the findings of an observational study published in the British Journal of…

USHUAIA, Argentina — Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia on Tuesday, with the aim of detecting the possible p…

A Canadian passenger on the MV Hondius has tested positive for the Andes strain of hantavirus.

The city has seen an unusually high number of whooping cough cases this year.

Aid cuts and US hostility to concept of global public health endanger us all

The MV Hondius is being disinfected in the Netherlands and will resume its scheduled trips in mid June.

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at its last stop Monday. Now, the waiting begins.

Modern psychiatry has long struggled with one brutal fact: the people most at risk of suicide often cannot wait weeks for therapy or antidepressants to work....

Plus, bedtime habits that are actually good for your brain.

LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - Britain has received supplies of the antiviral drug favipiravir from Japan as part of its response to a deadly hantavirus ‌outbreak...

A Kent mental health trust hopes the project will help improve speed and accuracy of diagnosis.

Aging isn't determined by genetics alone. Learn which lifestyle, environmental, and health factors may accelerate the aging process....

Hantavirus infections caused by the strain found in Colorado usually happen in the spring and summer.

Scientists in South Korea have developed experimental contact lenses designed to send electrical signals through the retina and into brain regions linked to mood.

While the hantavirus outbreak will likely be eliminated, it highlights persistent gaps in global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response measures.

Vitamin D supplementation may help rebalance immune responses to gut bacteria in people with IBD, though larger controlled studies are needed.

Plant machinery turns light into anti-inflammatory power inside eye cells.

As Allegheny County residents step outside to enjoy near-record heat this week, local health experts are warning about the dangers of Lyme disease after an unusually high number of tick bites reported across the country. In April, the Centers for Disease Cont…

Losing muscle strength is a natural part of aging. At the core of this decline is a drop in the number of muscle stem cells (MuSCs), the specialized cells responsible for maintaining and regenerating muscle tissue throughout our lives. Loss of muscle strength…

Wastewater data shows that RSV has a moderate presence in multiple Northern California regions, even though it's most common from October to March.

These expert-backed evening habits can help boost your heart health. Try these cardiologist-approved tips to support a healthier heart tonight.

Neurons fire much more erratically than researchers thought. What does that mean for how the brain works?

NASA's Mars rovers run on a 24-hour-39-minute Martian sol, and for the first 90 sols of every mission the engineers at JPL shift their entire lives to match, producing a jet lag no human had experienced before.

On December 28, 1964, a Thor-Able-Star rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and put a small US Navy satellite into a low polar orbit. The satellite was called Transit 5B-5. It weighed about 70 kilograms.

When Scott Kelly returned from 340 days aboard the International Space Station, NASA's twin study revealed that roughly seven percent of his gene expression had shifted in ways that never fully returned to baseline.

Water drawn from a living Equisetum plant, called horsetail, has registered the most extreme oxygen isotope signature ever measured.

A tiny asteroid orbiting Earth could be a piece of the moon, and a spacecraft is about to reveal the truth.

New research challenges previous claims of water vapor plumes on Europa, revealing that earlier Hubble data may have been misinterpreted.

The Milky Way’s stellar disk may have been reshaped 11 billion years ago by a massive galactic collision, sparking a wave of star formation that still echoes today.

Who needs a compass when you've got a dog with sensitive bowels?

The lunar south pole plunges to -330°F for two weeks straight. NASA may have finally built something that survives it.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.

Scientists have identified a protein that appears to put the brakes on the chronic inflammation linked to aging. Older mice with boosted levels of the protein were stronger, more energetic, and had healthier bones than untreated mice. Researchers say the find…

Four different spacecraft captured the massive surge of energy as it just kept going.

A lost dinosaur trackway rediscovered in northern Mongolia reveals 31 giant footprints dating back 120 million years to the early Cretaceous.

Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a species facing a dramatic event like climate change.