Almost every article you’re going to read about Apple’s just-announced iOS 26 operating system for the iPhone is going to focus on its new “Liquid Glass” design.
And don’t get me wrong—that design certainly looks refreshing (and is strangely reminiscent of the wax soda bottle candies I loved as a kid). iOS 26’s Liquid Glass inter
An inspiring conversation with Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky
Major food wholesaler United Natural Foods (UNFI) announced Monday that it experienced “unauthorized activity” on its IT systems, prompting the company to take some services offline while an investigation is underway.
As a leading food distributor, UNFI is the primary supplier to Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary. Last year the two companies
“At long last, Apple has finally entered the AI race.”
That was the first line in my story about Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024, almost exactly one year ago from today. After the company announced a bunch of highly personalized AI features last June, Apple seemed poised to finally reap the rewards of its long-time effort to build trust around user data privacy.
At
Waymo vehicles, the self-driving taxis from Google parent company Alphabet, have emerged as a literal flashpoint in the Los Angeles ICE protests, which ramped up heavily over the weekend.
The protests against the president’s immigration crackdown in the city began on Friday, as ICE raids broke out among several majority-Latino neighborhoods
For those who’ve been in the situation where we unlock our phone and start futzing around on our home screen, only to find ourselves looking up at the clock an hour later with a sense of shame and regret, fear not: science has your back, according to research published and presented at the human-computer interaction conference CHI.
Researchers at the University of Washington, Columbia University, and National Yang Min
As the director of commercial engagement for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a Department of Defense (DOD) organization that funds startups developing cutting-edge weapons technology for the military, Sarah Pearson is well acquainted with keeping secrets.
What’s surprising is that her team often keeps secrets from the very startups it recruits.
It’s not for any cloak-and-dagger reason, just bureaucracy. With security clearances taking up to 18 months, Pearson’s team of
Moderna CEO and cofounder Stéphane Bancel probably never imagined he’d look back on March 2023 as the good old days. Then, he merely had to go before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and take a spitty dressing-down from Senator Bernie Sanders over the price of Moderna’s COVID vaccine. The company was held up as a poster child for “corporate greed.” For a U.S. pharma executive, though, that was more or less business as usual.
Today, the situation is anythi
When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are misguided, selfish, or have fallen prey to misi
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Google’s AI Studio and Labs let you experiment for free with new AI tools. I love the way these digital sandboxes—like the