There are certain times of year we expect major tech events: Samsung hosts Galaxy Unpacked in January or February; Google hosts I/O during May; Apple's WWDC kicks off in June; and, in July, it's, um,…

For the first time, scientists may have discovered a binary system—like the twin suns of the fictional planet Tatooine in "Star Wars"—where both stars exploded as supernovas, a new study finds.…

A couple of months ago, Intel announced a couple of new chips for handheld gaming PCs, the Intel Arc G3 and G3 Extreme. It was certainly exciting to have something new on that front, given we've been…

An Iranian ballistic missile that killed two US service members at a Jordanian air base last week struck prefabricated housing units where troops were sleeping, according to US officials, as three…

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks next to a Vera Rubin Ultra Kyber compute tray and a Vera Rubin Ultra Kyber NVLink midplane during a keynote address at the Nvidia GTC…

As we wait for 3.5 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, while providing updates on what comes next. Gemini 3.6 Flash Gemini 3.6 Flash follows the last release at I/O 2026.…

Nvidia is hyping up its new Vera Rubin chip system this week, revealing new performance benchmarks for the GPU and CPU combo ahead of rival AMD’s annual product event in San Francisco on Thursday.…

No human activity is free of prejudice. Sport, like politics or business, is society in miniature. That is not an excuse; it is an indictment. The same patterns keep returning: coded slights, lazy…

Flip phones are having a bit of a comeback. But most modern versions either feel cheaply made or swap one set of distractions for another. That’s exactly what Light says it wants to change with the…

Out there in the Universe, a similar cosmic story plays out time and time again: the stellar life cycles. A massive, cold cloud of gaseous material, under the power of its own self-gravitation,…

Kaiwei Tang helped create the iconic Motorola Razr over 20 years ago. Now, 10 years into building Light, the startup behind the minimalist smartphone alternative Light Phone, he’s as surprised as…

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model sounds expensive, fragile, and hard to verify. I wanted a smaller test: can I run a real OpenVLA LoRA fine-tune in Colab, prove that the dataset loaded correctly, confirm that the GPU performed…

Last week, Nvidia invited a handful of journalists to a briefing about AI infrastructure to help convey the physical reality behind simulated intelligence. "Infrastructure is physical, it's real,"…

For decades, astrophysicists have been puzzling over a mystery hidden in plain view: Most supernovas come from the biggest stars, and most of our galaxy’s biggest stars are thought to be in…

You’re sitting at your desk, writing a short story. You remain focused but after several hours, you still can’t see how to end it. So you go for a run, allowing your thoughts to run with you.…

A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is…

A Hong Kong kindergarten clerk who was seriously injured by a taxi during the 2019 anti-government protests has told the High Court she has been unable to resume a normal life, citing ongoing…

While many of us can agree men are in trouble, few can agree on the exact cause. America has a masculinity crisis. Men are in trouble. The "masculinity crisis" is real. The male loneliness epidemic…

The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, on Monday warned students and employees against showing their “affinity with political movement like the one currently in public utterance and in public…

A Bronx man has been charged with a felony after allegedly ramming his vehicle into a gate at Beyoncé and Jay-Z's East Hampton home last week, according to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News…

This composite photo released on July 17, 2026, shows the crescent of Mars grow as NASA’s Psyche spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist. Psyche flew by Mars on May 15, 2026, using the…

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday it is “extremely saddened” after well over 100 people died or went missing from boats off Mauritania last week while…

(ATTN: RECASTS headline; UPDATES throughout) SEOUL, July 21 (Yonhap) -- A court on Tuesday denied an arrest warrant for a woman who staged a solo blockade of a Seoul vote counting center last month…

(MedPage Today) -- The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is often described as the "bible" of psychiatric diagnosis. It shapes how clinicians diagnose patients, how insurers…

Rio Times · Analysis Key Facts —A record number of Latin American conflicts The Council on Foreign Relations’ 2026 Conflict Risk Assessment includes a record number of Latin American contingencies,…

In early 2025, I wrote Is Claude a Compiler? At the time, my answer was: I don’t know. I’m now pretty sure the answer is “no, that’s a category error, it’s better than a compiler.” But this requires…

Spain's minority left-wing government approved on Tuesday a draft law that would ban smoking and vaping in outdoor spaces including bar terraces, parks, university campuses and beaches. For the first…

An Israeli air strike has killed six members of one family in Gaza City, according to local medics. Video footage showed the family's apartment on fire overnight in the western al-Sabra…

DUBAI, July 21 (Reuters) - The level of "interaction" with Iran's Supreme Leader is increasing day by day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a video clip published on state media on…

R2 gives developers object storage, without the egress fees. Before R2, cloud providers taught us to expect a data transfer tax every time we actually used the data we stored with them. Who stores…

Saudi Arabia on Monday condemned allegations by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis that Riyadh was imposing a siege on the Yemeni people, after the group announced ‌it would impose a maritime blockade on…

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has endorsed former President Macky Sall's candidacy to become the next United Nations secretary-general, the foreign ministry said on Monday, giving his…

Russia’s domestic fuel crunch is beginning to show signs of stabilizing following government intervention in the market, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Tuesday, though he acknowledged…

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has announced the launch of Health Assistant. The new assistant is designed to help users reach their health and wellness goals by providing insights…

iPhone 18 Rumor Check: 20 Claims Ranked by Likelihood Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models and its first foldable iPhone are less than two months away from being unveiled, with the standard iPhone 18, iPhone…

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Micron Technology (MU) has just taken traders on one of the wildest round trips of the year. The stock rocketed nearly 70% in five weeks, peaking above $1,250 in late June, only to surrender 35% of…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Montreal laboratory used to manufacture counterfeit passports, birth certificates, driver’s licences and other important documents was…

Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, tightening its grip on the physical layer that carries its cloud and…