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Confirming earlier reporting, SpaceX said in a filing it will seek proceeds of $75 billion from its IPO, a record amount for any initial public offering.

That photo up there is of Jalen Brunson, who hit some huge shots down the stretch of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, led all players on both sides in scoring, and was talked up by his head coach as the hero of a game the underdog Knicks won, 105–95.

Brendan Allen was as surprised to be facing Edmen Shazbazyan as you are, especially after being told a fight with Dricus du Plessis was supposed to happen.

A Sherpa guide was found crawling to base camp on Mount Everest a week after he went missing.

The Ring 5, which Oura describes as the world’s smallest smart ring, is 40% smaller than its predecessor and starts at $399.

National champions at Villanova, Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart can now enter rarified air with an NBA Finals triumph.

Officials are more concerned about highly contagious diseases like measles and respiratory viruses, which can spread quickly through large, fast-moving crowds.

A teenager was killed and three people wounded in a shooting following a California high school graduation ceremony Wednesday evening, according to authorities.

Chipmaker opens new front in rivalry with Apple, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm

In addition to Google AI Edge Gallery, the company also released the Gemma 4 12B model and the Google AI Edge Eloquent dictation app for the Mac.

Response to artists booking or backing out of the 'Freedom 250' shows revealed the nature of modern fan fickleness. Bret Michaels' guitarist spoke up.

Bullish investors see Quantinuum as the next superpower in quantum computing.

A new pancreatic cancer drug, daraxonrasib, is showing impressive results, nearly doubling survival in early trials. Here’s what doctors say.

He arrived at 5:01 AM. The employee said he needed to give them more time.

The former is over locking seatbelts, the latter affects some Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles

The administration is laying the groundwork for chatbots that can diagnose illness and prescribe medicine, but physicians say AI can introduce more problems.

Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.

households pay for AI for personal use. Sign ups are growing — even though Americans have subscription fatigue.

The European Commission swings at Big Tech — and annoys everyone.

Technology to be used to advise buyout groups on bringing in money from investors such as public pension funds

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations. From Anthropic to SpaceX to OpenAI, tech giants are looking to take their shares public to access more capital in the race to…

As AI models become cheaper and more attractive, they will likely encourage new uses and higher volumes of use – erasing any efficiency gains.

DESaFord has partnered with another company to create a special Bronco. It has several visual upgrades inside and out and comes with the Bronco Raptor engine.

The most valuable name in artificial intelligence made two big moves in 48 hours, and your money is closer to it than you think.

Meta Platformsis considering charging up to $200 a month for its planned consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent tool, according to internal documents, an ambitious target that would rival top tier offerings from established AI giants. The product, currentl…

ChatGPT introduces a new memory system to better remember preferences, keeping context fresh and relevant across conversations.

Destiny 2 is getting its big update on June 9, and there's plenty to do before then if you're trying to prepare for its grand finale.

Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.

Grand Narrative details, and the first-ever Warhammer Open in Poland.

Update: Since publication, new information has come to light suggesting the images have been AI-manipulated and are not in fact iPhone 18 Pro chassis...

Regular visits with your primary care doctor remain the standard health recommendation. But wearable tech devices can be an extra tool.

Summer Game Fest is almost here, so let's dive into which games will feature during the showcase, confirmed or otherwise.

Samsung has finally detailed the June 2026 security patch for Galaxy devices. The company included this new patch with the One UI 9.0 beta update released for the Galaxy S26 series in select countries. Other devices could receive this security patch soon.

Shokz’ clip-on open earbuds are now available in two versions with lighter designs, improved bass and clarity, and better noise reduction during calls.

It took long enough…

A new report from The Information shares fresh details on how the new Gemini-powered Siri will work under the hood. Here are the details.

God of War developer Santa Monica Studio has responded to a social media post from Domino’s Pizza after the pizza chain’s UK account joked about the newly announced God of War: Laufey for being a God of War game without Kratos. The post from Domino’s Pizza UK…

Samsung Electronics today announced a major update to the Samsung Health app, transforming the upcoming Galaxy Watch into a proactive, intelligent health partner. Starting June 8, Samsung will begin rolling out the app update to showcase the key health featur…

Founders from Morpheus AI, Dynamics Lab, Lucid AI Make Playable Photorealistic Roblox World Models Possible

Apple's head-mounted hardware plans are slowly being cut, reportedly by new CEO John Ternus himself, with Vision Air said to be killed off alongside Display glasses.

Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines

The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.

Microsoft explicitly says it wants to "make people addicted" to its new AI personal assistant agent in internal documents.

SHIFT layout reaches Corsair’s high-end PSU lineup Corsair has shown two new high-end power supplies at Computex 2026, both built around its SHIFT layout.

State health officials urged parents in several counties to vaccinate babies against measles ahead of schedule this spring as cases multiplied in Michigan. The outbreaks of the highly contagious virus…

Need a reason not to give your child a screen? It may permanently alter their brain during a critical period of development researchers have named the ‘criticome.’

Walking is an easy, effective way to reduce visceral fat. Fitness experts share why walking helps and how much you need to walk to see meaningful results.

Scientists have developed an experimental diabetes and obesity pill that works in a completely different way from drugs like Ozempic. Rather than reducing hunger, it activates metabolism in skeletal muscle, helping lower blood sugar and increase fat burning w…

Due to a significant gender gap, far less is known about the health risks of early or late puberty onset among boys than girls.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way the immune system fights cancer, overturning a core belief that has guided immunology for decades. The research found that when cancer cells shut down a key immune-recognition molecule called MHC I—a common trick…

The therapy activates a protein that could stop pulmonary fibrosis from progressing.

"Beans for the win!"…

If you're one of the millions of women taking medication to protect your heart, you already know how much these prescriptions can do for your health.

A burial team was attacked and 11 Ebola patients fled isolation facilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as the outbreak spread to another health zone in the country’s hardest-hit province.

Women taking the drug tell the BBC it has given them their lives back.

<p>Children aged less than five years face almost three times the risk of illness from unsafe food than older children and adults, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO). </p><p>Despite being just 9% of the global pop…

Improved fractionation strategies can identify antibiotics with previously unseen scaffolds and mechanisms, exemplified by manikomycin from Streptomyces rimosus, which acts by targeting the E-site of the bacterial large ribosomal subunit.

Single-cell mapping of cis-expression quantitative trait loci in inflammatory bowel disease revealed distal, enhancer-enriched variants&nbsp;detected&nbsp;at the cell-type level more frequently co-localize with genome-wide association study loci than those id…

Longitudinal transcriptomic, chromatin and genomic analyses of the two types of IDH-mutant glioma reveal in detail how disease progression is influenced by interdependent genetic, epigenetic and microenvironmental factors.

As hospitalization rates rise across the country, Oregon is facing one of its worst surges of the last decade.

Why get a costly prescription for a GLP-1 when your body can make it on its own? Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator Emmeline Mercer tells us which foods can coax your body into making the medication everyone's talking about — no injections, …

Deficiencies in vitamin B12 and folate, or vitamin B9, are linked to physical and mental fatigue, which suggests they may play an important role in chronic fatigue.

Researchers have discovered how microscopic imperfections and atomic vibrations can be used to control a powerful quantum effect in an advanced material. The effect can turn alternating electrical signals from the environment directly into the kind of current…

The gold in human jewelry boxes and dental work traces back to neutron star collisions that scattered heavy elements across the galaxy long before Earth existed.

The oxygen sustaining every breath you take began as industrial waste from microbes that didn't know they were killing almost everything alive.

On 18 March 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first human to float free in space. His suit ballooned so badly in the vacuum that he had to bleed oxygen out of it, head-first into the airlock, sweating six kilograms in minutes — and he never told mission control …

In 1984, an amateur palaeontologist found a small, nearly complete fossil in a quarry in West Lothian, Scotland. The creature, later named Westlothiana lizziae, is about 20 centimetres long and resembles a salamander. It is one of the earliest known examples …

Are Machiavellianism and psychopathy the same trait? A new 30-day diary study reveals that while these dark personalities look identical on paper, tracking daily behavior shows they operate in completely distinct ways.

Embedding a small fraction of force-sensitive mechanophores as cross-links into common polymers enhances ballistic energy dissipation.

Analysis of a 25-year satellite record shows that Earth has a persistent east–west albedo symmetry split at 27° E, with clear-sky albedo, cloud radiative effect and open-ocean fraction exhibiting a triple symmetry around this meridian.

A diet–microbiome–host axis strengthens mucosal immune defences and reinforces host–microbiota mutualism.

mRNA technology is being applied to develop a new generation of therapies for rare and common diseases. This Review discusses insights from clinical studies on mRNA-based therapeutics, including enzyme replacement therapies, cancer immunotherapies, genome-mod…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a fully formed stellar bar inside a massive galaxy that existed when the universe was barely a tenth of its current age, a structure that current models say should not be possible.

Cortisol activates an astrocytic gene program to close early-life brain plasticity windows.

Octopuses are remarkably intelligent creatures, as was demonstrated by Inky the Octopus's famous escape from the National Aquarium of New Zealand through a drainpipe back to sea in 2016. A new Dartmouth study shows octopuses can use mirrors to find food out o…