Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, takes over as CERN’s director general this week, and one of his first major decisions during his five-year tenure will be shutting down the Large Hadron Collider for an extended upgrade. The shutdown starts in June to make way for the high-luminosity
Read MoreInstagram head Adam Mosseri closed out 2025 by acknowledging what many have long suspected: the era of trusting photographs as accurate records of reality is over, and the platform he runs will need to fundamentally adapt to an age of “infinite synthetic content.” In a slideshow posted to Instagram, Mosseri wrote that for most of
Read MoreInstagram head Adam Mosseri closed out 2025 by acknowledging what many have long suspected: the era of trusting photographs as accurate records of reality is over, and the platform he runs will need to fundamentally adapt to an age of “infinite synthetic content.” In a slideshow posted to Instagram, Mosseri wrote that for most of
Read MoreMacworld When all is said and done, I doubt anyone will cite 2025 as a key year in the history of Apple. The company admitted that it couldn’t deliver on a promise it made back in 2024, and it shipped a bunch of impressive but incremental improvements to its existing hardware devices. The iPhone Air
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzTHf8soAO0 Since the generative AI boom kicked off in 2023, skepticism has grown among tech enthusiasts: Do we actually need so much AI processing power on our Android phones? It’s a fair question. After all, the most transformative AI tools — from ChatGPT to NotebookLM — run in the cloud. There is currently a split
Read MoreMacworld When all is said and done, I doubt anyone will cite 2025 as a key year in the history of Apple. The company admitted that it couldn’t deliver on a promise it made back in 2024, and it shipped a bunch of impressive but incremental improvements to its existing hardware devices. The iPhone Air
Read MoreOur reviewer optimized his morning cup of coffee with creamer substitutes that promise health benefits and mental clarity.
Read More2025 was a crazy year for mobile games, with new releases offering console-quality experiences for the first time. With the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset offering incredible performance in the year’s flagship phones, it’s great to see games finally take advantage of all that power. We also saw a few great lightweight mobile games released in
Read MoreThe second part of Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s “Azure Innovations” Ignite 2025 presentation covered software and a deeper look at the platforms he expects developers will use to build cloud-native applications. Azure was born as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, providing the plumbing for your applications so you didn’t have to think about infrastructure, as it
Read MoreThe second part of Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s “Azure Innovations” Ignite 2025 presentation covered software and a deeper look at the platforms he expects developers will use to build cloud-native applications. Azure was born as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, providing the plumbing for your applications so you didn’t have to think about infrastructure, as it
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Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the wayside, debunked by new studies and overshadowed by warnings that alcohol causes cancer. Now the American Heart Association has revived the idea in a scientific
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the wayside, debunked by new studies and overshadowed by warnings that alcohol causes cancer. Now the American Heart Association has revived the idea in a scientific
Read MoreAlthough rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to limiting their availability, but there might be more efficient ways to recover these REEs. One such method involves the use of a bacteriophage that has been genetically
Read MoreAlthough rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to limiting their availability, but there might be more efficient ways to recover these REEs. One such method involves the use of a bacteriophage that has been genetically
Read MoreIBM is urging customers to quickly patch a critical vulnerability in its API Connect platform that could allow remote attackers to bypass authentication. The company describes API Connect as a full lifecycle application programming interface (API) gateway used “to create, test, manage, secure, analyze, and socialize APIs.” It particularly touts it as a way to
Read MorePibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025. Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in 1984, and Stewart continued to host the show well into the 1990s. He was well-known
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth after they fly to the moon and back. The mission is a big
Read MoreA large-scale study tracking more than 27,500 middle-aged and elderly people over roughly nine years has found that poor sleep quality is associated with accelerated brain aging, and chronic inflammation appears to be one of the key mechanisms driving this effect. Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute assessed participants’ sleep across five dimensions — chronotype, duration,
Read MoreA large-scale study tracking more than 27,500 middle-aged and elderly people over roughly nine years has found that poor sleep quality is associated with accelerated brain aging, and chronic inflammation appears to be one of the key mechanisms driving this effect. Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute assessed participants’ sleep across five dimensions — chronotype, duration,
Read MoreApple has classified the final Intel-based MacBook Air, Apple Watch Series 5, and iPhone 11 Pro as vintage products as of December 31. MacBook Air The company updated its vintage and obsolete list on Wednesday, adding several late-2019 and 2020-era devices. The change affects repair eligibility rather than software support or daily functionality. For Apple
Read MoreStarting in July 2026, every public school district in California will be required to have policies on the books that restrict or prohibit students from using smartphones during the school day, thanks to Assembly Bill 3216 that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law back in 2024. The legislation also mandates that districts update these policies
Read MoreStarting in July 2026, every public school district in California will be required to have policies on the books that restrict or prohibit students from using smartphones during the school day, thanks to Assembly Bill 3216 that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law back in 2024. The legislation also mandates that districts update these policies
Read MoreThe Dreame X40 Ultra used to be one of our robot vacuums on the market before its successor took its place. With the year coming to a close, now’s a good time to set yourself up for a cleaner, more organized start in 2026. The Dreame X40 Ultra — one of our favorite robot vacuum
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