In 2024, a Sydney tech founder whose dog had cancer turned to AI for answers after vets said nothing more could be done. Paul Conyngham, who has no medical background, used ChatGPT to research treatment options. The chatbot suggested immunotherapy and led him to experts at the University of New Sout
Two scientists just got a major award for turning weird physics into useful tools. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard didn’t just study quantum quirks—they turned them into a way to send messages that even hackers can’t crack. Their work in the late 1980s showed how particles could carry informatio
Lisa Kudrow feels uneasy about how quickly artificial intelligence could change everyday life. She talks with people in the field and hears that AI can be a powerful helper for many tasks, but she worries about the jobs it might replace. If people lose work or cannot support their families, she thin
Apple has just dropped a new beta build for its operating system, showing that the upcoming release will bring thirteen brand‑new tweaks and fixes to iPhones. The first sign is that the public rollout should happen next week, while the next beta will include a new Siri powered by Gemini and other sm
Samsung has turned its 2025 Frame Pro into more than just a screen; it doubles as wall art. In many offices the device is hung like a portrait and left to show rotating images, proving that the TV can also serve décor. The company’s goal is to make a television that blends into a room when not in us
NVIDIA recently announced its latest upscaling tool, DLSS 5, which is supposed to bring sharper visuals and smoother gameplay to the newest GeForce RTX cards. The company described it as a real‑time neural rendering model that adds realistic lighting and materials to game scenes. However, instead of
Micron Technologies, a maker of memory chips, has reported earnings that exceed analysts’ expectations. The company announced its revenue for the latest quarter at $23. 86 billion, while experts had predicted around $20. 07 billion. This outperformance highlights the growing need for high‑speed memo
Coinbase’s latest commercial suggests that many people feel stuck in a system that no longer moves them forward. The ad uses the idea of an “NPC” – a character in video games that follows preset rules – to show how some feel like they are simply going through the motions. The message is that i
Tempo, a crypto company backed by Stripe, has launched its own blockchain and an AI‑driven payment protocol that can work across different blockchains. The network began in a testing stage for about three and a half months before going live on Wednesday. The team says the idea of “agentic payment
The Federal Aviation Administration has chosen eight projects from a pool of more than thirty to test electric vertical take‑off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles in real airspace. These projects, spread across 26 states, will experiment with everything from city rides to cargo drops and medical transpor
