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Follow Apple WWDC 2026 live updates as the keynote spotlights AI, software, Siri and developer tools and likely CEO John Ternus's first major appearance.

When asked about a wave of consolidation among airlines, Kirby said further combination opportunities look unlikely: "There's nothing."

The last few weeks have been an extraordinary time for cinema – with a pair of indie horrors by Gen Z directors making massive profits, while traditional blockbusters have flopped.

Pope Leo XIV denounced the "scourge" of sexual violence by Catholic clergy and called for a "culture of care" in the Church ahead of an expected private meeting with victims in Spain.

Firms will be expected to activate built-in features to stop children accessing sexually explicit images.

That's a wrap on the 2026 Tony Awards, hosted by P!NK at Radio City Music Hall! Death of a Salesman took home the most awards of …

In the first papal address to the Spanish legislature, the American pope said a "moral renewal" was necessary in legislatures and public life to ensure respect for the inherent dignity of all people.

spent $625 million on World Cup security—none of it went to public health. Just days from the tournament, big concerns remain.

Christian Eriksen is expected to be discharged from hospital "soon" after he collapsed on the pitch during Sunday's friendly between Denmark and Ukraine, Denmark's national team doctor said on Monday morning.

Xbox's big multiplayer and live service games will continue to be multiplatform, Matt Booty has said.

Recent research suggests there's more going on with "ideological sorting" than simply moving to places that match one's politics. It's often one of many deciding factors, such as taxes or safety.

From Gears of War: E-Day to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and every game in between.

Apple is set to unveil iOS 27 during its WWDC 2026 keynote today, and there are many rumored features and changes for iPhones. The first developer...

Health workers inside the epicenter of Congo's outbreak say they are working with little pay or rest. The mining town of Mongbwalu attracts a huge number of laborers for large gold mines who live in crowded mining camps. That makes the transmission of the dis…

Today’s WWDC keynote will be Tim Cook’s final Apple event to say, “Good morning,” so he’s just shared a special video ahead of the kickoff.

• Expands the Company’s expertise in targeting pan-KRAS and other drivers of hard-to-treat cancers • Acquisition adds a proprietary degrader antibody conjugate platform designed to overcome key limitations of existing therapeutic approaches • Strengthens lead…

The rise of the "post-literate" worker.

Global fertility rates are plunging, as marriage rates fall. Smartphones are a big reason why — and AI is about to make things worse.

As presented at the American Diabetes Association Meeting, in this phase 3 trial, weekly subcutaneous injections of survodutide, a glucagon receptor/GLP-1R dual agonist, lowered liver fat content and body weight compared to placebo in adults with obesity and …

39 Fairfield Pond Lane property sits on one of the priciest streets in the United States and was listed Sunday by billionaire hedge fund manager Zach Schreiber.

A new study finds that people in remote jobs are more socially isolated, anxious and sad, compared to people not in remote jobs. But demanding everyone return to the office isn't the answer either, say researchers.

News Highlights: £2bn investment over five years to support advanced computing, scientific research and workforce development across the United…...

The Nasdaq's sudden lurch lower on Friday looked like a crack in a story that had seemed, until recently, almost bulletproof.

Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called a global tech stocks selloff that began last week a buying opportunity, saying the buildout of artificial intelligence has just begun.

Both of these chip designers sit at the center of the custom AI build-out, and both took a hit last week. But one looks like the better buy at today's prices.

It's about time!…

On behalf of the team at inXile entertainment, I’m thrilled to share more of Clockwork Revolution — our time-bending first-person action RPG set in the steampunk city of Avalon, with a cast of unforgettable characters, and a world that reacts deeply to every …

Valheim now has its release date on Nintendo Switch 2. Today, it was announced that the title arrives on September 9, 2026. You may recall that Valheim was confirmed for Nintendo Switch 2 during a Nintendo Direct.

Publisher Fictions and developer Game Freak have revealed new details for action RPG Beast of Reincarnation, including the reveal that protagonist Emma will be portrayed by voice actor Yui Ishikawa…

"Generative AI was used to support our teams during the development of background assets for 'Crazy Taxi: World Tour'," Sega confirms.

A Persona 4 Revival live stream has been announced to take place on June 18, 2026 featuring series producer Kazuhisa Wada.

Today at #XBOXGamesShowcase, Activision and Infinity Ward revealed the first look at DMZ, the definitive Call of Duty extraction shooter experience.

The first new "Spyro" game in nearly two decades will release next spring from developer Toys for Bob.

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on October 15, followed by Switch later in 2026, publisher Konami and developers …

The anniversary-edition console includes an Xbox button that lights up green and a translucent green controller.

Publisher Bethesda Softworks and developer id Software have announced DOOM: The Dark Ages paid downloadable content “Revelations” and the free “Ripatorium 3.0” update.

Classic GameCube and Wii games are now available on the Nintendo Switch. Find out how to easily access the games on your console for free or by subscription.

Minecraft Dungeons II has a release date, and it's September 28, 2026! Learn more about what awaits you and watch the animated trailer!

Our columnist tests out the latest fitness trackers for your wrist, finger and elsewhere, with a focus on sleep monitoring and heart-rate accuracy

The flagship laptop announced at Computex 2026 will feature Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of unified memory.

A small group of high-end companions are charging time-poor technorati thousands an hour by offering a blend of sex, attention and genuine intellectual rapport.

Sonny Dickson today shared detailed images of a foldable iPhone dummy unit with what appears to be a finalized design, providing the best look yet at...

Eating late at night may compound the harmful impacts of stress on your digestive health and gut microbiome, according to recent research.

Immune cells can carry HIV into the brain, leading to problems with memory and cognition. Blocking other immune cells from the brain can make matters worse.

I don't think her solution is going to work out.

The naked mole-rat is a small, hairless, more or less blind rodent that lives in colonies under the deserts of East Africa. It is about the size of a mouse, and a mouse lives around four years. The naked mole-rat lives more than thirty, with the oldest on rec…

This antioxidant-rich food is both tasty and healthy.

Plus, tips from a chef on how to use it in your kitchen.

Academics support consistent bedtimes, reduced screen time before bed, physical activity during the day and a calm sleep environment

A patient received two kidneys and a whole liver from a pig, the first example of multi-organ xenotransplantation.

A surprising gut-brain discovery suggests that anxiety could one day be treated with specially designed probiotics. Could anxiety be shaped, at least in part, by tiny organisms living in the gut? Research from Duke-NUS Medical School and the National Neurosci…

The death of San Francisco firefighter Ken Jones has renewed calls to reform Blue Shield, the city's designated insurance provider. The late firefighter’s battle to treat his stage 4 lung cancer first gained attention in January, with advocates now blaming de…

Experts can’t agree on the cause of an Encephalitis lethargica outbreak.

The study found that the pace of biological aging for people who are living with HIV slowed by nine percent.

A radical new treatment may be emerging.

A Kenyan court has blocked a proposed U.S. Ebola quarantine facility that has triggered protests in the country.

Even if they don't verbalize it, you can tell how miserable someone is by 10 things they care about way too much. They're often stuck in their heads, and it becomes obvious to those around them.

While there are some clear signs of heart disease, like shortness of breath or chest pain, others aren’t as well-known, even when they’re in plain sight.

A trainer shares 4 gentle shoulder exercises after 60 that rebuild strength with light resistance, no heavy lifting.

Taking care of your health becomes even more important at this stage of life, "but a lot of people do not realize that until symptoms start showing up.”

For years, fatty liver disease was often brushed aside as a minor finding on an ultrasound report. Many people never felt any symptoms. Others assumed it was a condition linked only to alcohol consumption.

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Adults accept it as conventional health wisdom that we require eight hours of sleep each night in order to be healthy. Yet an expert on human evolutionary biology recently argued that this might actually be misleading.“Do you lose sleep over whether you sleep…

Approved 20 years ago as a diabetes treatment, GLP-1 drugs have been found to help patients reduce weight, changing the lives of more than 30 million people in the U.S. But there also have been troubling side effects reported.

Proteins in the two most common types of flu virus enable them to take very different paths to entering human lungs, a finding that could lead to more directed antiviral treatments.

When done correctly, this routine behavior can have noteworthy results, according to doctors.

Doctors reveal what they look for when examining a patient's longevity and how you can adopt the behaviors for yourself.

A pair of stars spiraling around each other. That's the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we've detected, called ASKAP J1745.

Around almost the entire Australian coast, Aboriginal communities have told stories of a time when the sea came inland and swallowed country that people had walked on, hunted across and named. Two researchers have argued that some of these stories may be accu…

Research suggests that equal servings of animal protein may pack a much bigger muscle-building punch than their plant-based counterparts.

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger brains do.

The image we have inherited of the first Mars crew is a figure on a ridge at dawn, helmet catching the light, a red desert running out to a pink horizon. It is also the smallest part of what those first crews will actually do.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left it about 280 million years after the Big Bang. It is one of a growing population of early galaxies that are brighter and more numer…

The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71 centimetres, a little over two feet. It flew in the Early Permian, roughly 285 million years ago, and despite the way it is usually described, it was…

In October 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe took the first photographs of the Moon's far side, developed the film in a tiny onboard darkroom, and scanned the prints to radio them back to Earth — a chain of engineering improbabilities that redrew the map of the s…

The International Space Station travels fast enough that its crew pass through sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets in the course of a single day. At an altitude of roughly 400 kilometres it moves at about 28,000 kilometres an hour, which works out to one ful…

Somewhere on the ridge of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, a telescope with an 8.4-metre mirror is in the final stages of preparation for the most comprehensive survey of the solar system ever attempted. Rubin Observatory completed its cons…

A paper published in Nature Chemistry in May 2025 describes what its authors call the first demonstration of exponential RNA replication by a polymerase ribozyme under conditions that could plausibly have occurred on the early Earth. The work comes from Dr Ja…

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of outperforming classical computers on some tasks. Despite their potential, the use of these systems remains very limited, due to their high cost an…

In the 19th century, a French philosopher called Paul Janet proposed that time appears to accelerate by the proportion of life already lived. A year for a ten-year-old is one-tenth of everything they know. The same year for a forty-year-old is one-fortieth.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun’s corona, the outer atmosphere where temperatures run to more than a million degrees Celsius while the visible surface below sits at about 5,500. On 24 December 2024 it c…