Technology

Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant flare from a black hole, which originated from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) J2245+3743, located 10 billion light-years from Earth. The black hole was first observed in 2018 by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) … Read more

WhatsApp on Wednesday announced that it is launching an app for the Apple Watch. This is the first time iPhone users will be able to use their Apple Watch to get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages through a dedicated Apple Watch app. “This new experience will help you stay … Read more

For years, Alyssa Landguth, a 30-year-old from Washington state, used Facebook like most people do these days. She bought used furniture on Facebook Marketplace, the app’s version of an online garage sale, or commented on posts. But after finalizing a divorce over the summer, a different feature has kept her coming back — Facebook Dating. … Read more

We are still maybe years away from a truly modular phone ecosystem, despite all the exploration in that space over the past decade or so. But that does not mean there can’t be accessories that bring in modular elements that let us customise the look of our devices to our mood that day or the … Read more

For centuries, kings, miners, and alchemists chased gold as the most precious substance on Earth. Rulers fought wars for it and raiders wiped out entire tribes to get it, while alchemists over centuries tried — and failed miserably — to make it in their medieval labs. Yet the irony is this: all the gold and … Read more

Nintendo raised its Switch 2 sales forecast on Tuesday, boosting confidence that the console will perform strongly during the busy holiday season. The Kyoto-based company unveiled the Switch 2 , its most expensive gaming hardware yet, priced at $450, in June, alongside flagship titles priced at $80. Nintendo now expects to sell 19 million Switch … Read more

Apple has started rolling out iOS 26.1, the first major update to its latest operating system. Unveiled alongside the iPhone 17 series in September, iOS 26 introduces Liquid Glass, a “new translucent material that reflects and refracts its surroundings.” Available for iPhone 11 series and newer devices, iOS 26.1 fixes issues pertaining to the Liquid … Read more

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning AI/ML pioneer widely known as the ‘Godfather of AI’, has warned that the AI race could make tech billionaires like Elon Musk vastly richer even as millions of workers stand to lose their jobs in automation. While acknowledging that AI could do “tremendous good” in education and healthcare, Hinton said, … Read more

After swiping aimlessly for years on dating apps like Hinge and Tinder, Emma Inge, a 25-year-old project manager in San Francisco, decided to try something different. In September, after following an ad to the website of a startup called Known, Inge spent 20 minutes confiding in an artificial intelligence matchmaker. The matchmaker — essentially an … Read more

A group of 36 volunteers were ‘buried’ alive during a study for science. The new clinical trial has found that a user-carried avalanche safety device can prevent hypoxemia and hypercapnia for a significant amount of time in case a person is trapped alive under snow and debris. This can be critical in life and death … Read more