Technology

Smugglers, money launderers and people facing sanctions once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork to store illicit fortunes. The luxury goods could help hide wealth but were cumbersome to move and hard to spend. Now, criminals have a far more practical alternative: stablecoins, a cryptocurrency tied to the U.S. dollar that exists largely beyond traditional … Read more

When I opened the Airtel app on my smartphone over the weekend to recharge my mobile plan, I was surprised to see a Perplexity Pro AI subscription worth Rs 17,000 included with my plan. I double-checked whether I had accidentally subscribed to Perplexity AI. Before I started to panic about being subscribed to another service, … Read more

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is releasing a remarkable amount of carbon-based chemicals, with new observations showing unusually high levels of methanol – a molecule central to early prebiotic chemistry and never previously detected in an object arriving from outside our solar system. 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar visitor, is turning out to be strikingly … Read more

Days after Softbank Group cashed out its entire $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia, Masayoshi Son, the CEO and chairman of the Japanese investment giant, has finally addressed the move that rattled markets, at the time, and intensified speculation of an AI bubble. Son revealed for the first time that he was forced to offload the … Read more

Weeks after the well-received debut of the Gemini 3 series of AI models, Google has announced that it is making Gemini 3 Deep Think mode accessible to all Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app. While Gemini 3 comes with multimodal reasoning, the newly rolled out Deep Think mode allows users to leverage the … Read more

Meta is delaying the release of its Phoenix mixed-reality glasses until 2027, aiming to get the details right, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing an internal memo. The delay from an initially planned release in the second half of 2026 is because the company wants a fully polished device, the report said. Meta did not … Read more

A significant ‘leak’ has delivered the most detailed look so far at Samsung’s next major flagship trio, the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra, expected to launch in 2026. The designs reportedly surfaced through an early test build of One UI 8.5, spotted by Android Authority, and suggest that Samsung is refining its established aesthetic … Read more

A breakthrough by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may soon allow millions of people with diabetes to monitor their blood sugar levels without drawing a single drop of blood. Researchers have developed a non-invasive glucose-monitoring system that uses light waves instead of needles — a device they believe could eventually shrink down … Read more

If you thought AI-generated junk flooding the internet was bad, wait till you see what’s being served to toddlers. In the last few months, a growing wave of YouTube Creators are churning out low-effort “AI slop” content, which could negatively affect babies. According to a report by Bloomberg, AI slop – a term used to … Read more

A former Apple engineer is drawing significant attention in China after unveiling an AI-powered chip that could directly challenge one of Apple’s most advanced mixed reality technologies. Wang Chaohao, who previously worked in Apple’s extended reality division, now leads the Chinese startup GravityXR, which has just unveiled a chip designed to compete with the Apple … Read more