Technology

Consumers, too, are likely to ask: What’s new in the iPhone 17, and how different is it from last year’s model? Cook and his team have a lot to answer, not just whether the iPhone still dominates consumers’ digital lives, but also about the direction the company is headed, with only this device remaining its … Read more

Spotify has rolled out a new in-app messaging feature that allows users to share music, podcasts, and audiobooks while chatting with friends—all without leaving the app. Available to both free and premium users, the feature is designed to make sharing content more seamless and conversational. The company says the move comes after repeated user requests … Read more

For millennia, humans looked up at the Sun in awe and reverence. Ancient civilizations worshipped it as a god, prayed for its warmth, and feared its eclipse. The source of its eternal fire remained a mystery. That mystery was solved  in 1939, when physicist Hans Bethe revealed how the Sun, and billions of other stars, … Read more

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said in a court filing on Tuesday it has resolved a class action lawsuit from a group of U.S. authors who argued the company’s AI training infringed their copyrights, marking the first settlement in a string of major AI copyright lawsuits in the United States. A California judge said in a … Read more

Google has introduced two new AI-powered features into Google Translate. According to Google, people can translate around 1 trillion words across Google Translate, Search, and in visual translations in Lens and Circle to Search. The new features aim to help users with live conversations and language learning and are backed by the advanced reasoning and … Read more

Google Gemini may not be the most popular AI chatbot, but it still has millions of users worldwide. Earlier this year, in April, the tech giant added native image editing capabilities to the Gemini app. Now, Google is giving Gemini’s image editing feature a significant boost. In a blog post, Google announced that Gemini’s image … Read more

Nvidia has developed a “robot brain” that could supercharge the robotics industry. Its Jetson AGX Thor, a robotics chip module, is now available as a developer kit for $3,499. The first kits will ship next month and are designed to create advanced robots. Nvidia says the Jetson AGX Thor is 7.5 times faster than the … Read more

Apple has held talks internally about acquiring French AI startup Mistral as well as Perplexity, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has trailed rivals such as Alphabet’s Google and Samsung in terms of roll-out of AI features in its devices. CEO Tim Cook signaled last month that Apple was … Read more

SpaceX’s Starship rocket on Tuesday deployed its first batch of mock Starlink satellites in space and tested new heat shield tiles on its plunge through Earth’s atmosphere, clinching development milestones that had been held up by a streak of previous testing failures. The giant 403-foot-tall (123 m) Starship system in its tenth test flight lifted … Read more

In a significant milestone for its Starship program, SpaceX completed a critical test flight on Tuesday, with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage executing controlled splashdowns in their target regions. The test launch from the company’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, was the tenth integrated flight test of the fully reusable … Read more