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Google signs Stephen Curry to pitch its Pixel, health, and AI gear

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape the company’s hardware, features, and AI services. The long-term partnership was announced today at the Made by Google event, with Curry joining the company as a “performance advisor” for Google’s Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, leaning into his athletic experience and expertise. Part of Curry’s job will involve testing and providing feedba

Not One, but Two Wild Archie Comics Adaptations May Be on the Way

Jason Momoa’s next project may take him to the high seas. James Gunn teases that Peacemaker‘s return is more about the man behind the mask. Plus, get a look at what’s coming next on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Foundation, and Alien: Earth. Spoilers away! Archie Comics Jeff Sneider’s InSneider Report has word that Paramount is purportedly preparing a film adaptation of the Archie Comics universe, with Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and Mister Miracle writer Tom King tapped to pen the script, a

NASA and IBM Unveil AI That Helps Scientists Forecast Solar Storms

Earlier this year, local and national officials gathered for a first-of-its-kind tabletop exercise to test their readiness for a severe solar storm. The simulation exposed major gaps in scientists’ ability to forecast space weather, which threatens critical infrastructure on Earth and in orbit. On Wednesday, August 20, IBM and NASA unveiled Surya: an open-source AI model that could begin to fill those gaps. Heliophysicists currently rely on complex computer models to monitor and predict the Sun

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White Noise Makes Beer Brew Faster, Scientists Claim

Music can make people do things faster, with running, dancing, and doing chores being good examples. It seems, however, that we’re not alone in picking up the pace at the sound of a good tune. Researchers have discovered that playing a sound commonly known as white noise can shorten fermentation—arguably the most important step in brewing beer—by 21 to 31 hours, without markedly changing the flavor. This could help breweries increase beer production without diminishing quality. How sound chang

The 50 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (August 2025)

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of Cards, the burgeoning streamer premiered The Morning After, a pop-culture-focused news show that ran for 800 episodes over three years. Hulu has continued to make TV history in the years since, most notably in 2017 when it became the first streamer to win an E

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 20)

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

Google can read your Docs to you now

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways You can listen to your Google Docs documents read aloud. Control the playback and let other people listen to the document. Feature is available to Workspace, AI Pro, and AI Ultra users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Listening to your own documents is a helpful way to catch typos and other mistakes, and learn how your writing actually sounds. Now,

Epic touts new AI tools for patients and doctors at company's annual meeting

Space travelers, robots and, of course, artificial intelligence. They were all on display on Tuesday at Epic Systems' annual Users Group Meeting, held at the health software giant's 1,670-acre campus in Verona, Wisconsin. Judy Faulkner, Epic's 82-year-old CEO, dressed for the occasion in a purple wig with neon green shoes and an iridescent vest, reminiscent of the fictional character Buzz Lightyear from the "Toy Story" franchise. At the science fiction-themed event, Faulkner told the crowd th

The End of Handwriting

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

Signs Your Gut Is Struggling and Needs Help, According to a Microbiome Expert

Imagine "little pets living inside your intestinal tract." That's how Cleveland Clinic microbiome expert Gail Cresci describes the trillions of microbes in your gut. Those microbes not only impact your gut health and break down food but also affect your overall well-being, as they support your immunity, regulate inflammation in the body, and even produce vital compounds like vitamins and hormones. Knowing how crucial your gut health is to your overall health, it's important to pay attention whe

iOS 26 Beta Cheat Sheet: What You Should Know About the Next Major iPhone Update

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June that it will release iOS 26 (not iOS 19) this fall. That update will bring a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more to your iPhone, and developers and beta testers can try those new features now. We put together this cheat sheet to help you learn about and use the latest features in iOS 26. This page will also help you keep track of the subsequent iOS 26 updates. Note that iOS 26 is still in beta, so these features could b

These 9 Hidden Apple Watch Health Features Could Change How You Use Yours

With the Apple Watch Series 11 on the horizon, Apple has brought back its blood oxygen feature. This tool lets you check how much oxygen your red blood cells are carrying from your lungs throughout your body, something many users don't even realize their watch can do. That's only the beginning. The Apple Watch is packed with health-focused features that often fly under the radar. Beyond tracking steps or calories, it can monitor your heart, your sleep, your fitness routines, and more. To break

Ikea’s most Ikea product ever

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ikea is teaming up with a Swedish designer for its latest collection, and the first product being teased is a dedicated plate for Ikea’s greatest product: meatballs. The 12-piece Gustaf Westman collection that’s launching on September 9th includes a chunky blue serving dish that is shaped to fit exactly 11 of the delicious morsels “in a celebratory row.” “I love designing objects for a specific function – i

How the Casting of ‘Andor’ Brought More Powerful Women to ‘Star Wars’

The extraordinary ensemble seen in Andor exemplified the best of Star Wars and brought more iconic heroes and villains to the franchise in two unforgettable seasons. Led by Genevieve O’Reilly, reprising her role as Mon Mothma, the women of the Disney+ series really carved out their legacies within the Lucasfilm universe. In a behind-the-scenes featurette for Andor, casting directors Nina Gold and Martin Ware discussed discovering the immense talents of the series’ key leading ladies. Elizabeth

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

The forgotten meaning of "jerk"

by Ben Lindbergh at the Ringer asks “When did jerk stop meaning ‘stupid’?” He starts with the Steve Martin movie The Jerk, saying of its protagonist: Navin is oblivious, not obnoxious. He’s ignorant, not intolerant. He’s naive, not intentionally cruel. He’s a bumpkin, a rube, and a moron, maybe, but a jerk? For the most part, no, I wouldn’t say so. There he is, of course, using the current sense of jerk: “There’s definitely been a semantic shift in ‘jerk’ over the years,” says linguist, lexi

Fallout S2 teaser brings us to New Vegas

Prime Video has dropped an extended teaser for the much-anticipated second season of Fallout, widely considered to be among the best TV adaptations of a gaming franchise. In our 2024 year-end roundup, Ars senior editor Samuel Axon wrote that the first season gave us "a specific cocktail of tongue-in-cheek humor, sci-fi campiness, strong themes, great characters, and visceral violence [that] came together into a fantastic show." The second season looks like it will bring us more of the same, alon

Facebook and Instagram now offer AI-powered dubbing for video creators

Meta announced today a new AI-based translation tool for creators on Instagram and Facebook. The company uses artificial intelligence to automatically dub videos in other languages, with support for lip-syncing and voice cloning that promises to preserve the creator’s tone and delivery. Here’s how to use it. Meta AI promises good auto-dubbing with voice matching and lip sync Right now, the feature supports two-way translations between English and Spanish, and Meta says that “more languages com

Fallout season two has a teaser trailer and a December 17 release date

Things are ramping up for a return to the wasteland this winter. Season two of Prime Video's Fallout TV show will debut on December 17. The second season had already been loosely pegged for a December release when the news of a third season appeared earlier this year, and the studio shared a few still images of the cast in the upcoming New Vegas setting just yesterday. The announcement during the Opening Night Live show for Gamescom 2025 also included a surprisingly lengthy teaser trailer with

Without the futex, it's futile

Phil Eaton’s book club is starting The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, 2nd Edition , which is a very well regarded textbook, and pretty recently updated (2021). I’ve even heard of a couple of authors. I’ve done a lot of concurrent programming, and have always felt like I’ve still got plenty to learn, so I was excited for the topic. So far, what I’ve learned is that I would never recommend this book, despite any merits. Academia certainly struggles to find the right balance between teaching

I'm Enjoying Sony's New Inzone H9 II Gaming Headset, but Its Price Is Startling

Sony isn't so known for its PC gaming accessories, but it's trying to change that by leveling up and broadening its Inzone line with five new accessories. These include the upgraded flagship Inzone H9 II wireless headset ($350), Inzone E9 in-ear monitors ($150), Inzone KBD-H75 keyboard ($300), the Inzone Mouse-A gaming mouse ($150) and two mousepads, which were all developed in collaboration with the prominent esports team Fnatic, and are optimized for first-person shooters. They're available n

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Meta Rolls Out AI Translations for Facebook and Instagram User-Generated Content

Meta's AI team just rolled out new translation tools to Facebook and Instagram, allowing user-generated content to be converted into other languages on the fly. These new tools, which were announced at Meta Connect in 2024, are intended to help bridge the gap between people who speak different languages so that videos and reels can be understood by more audiences internationally. Currently, the one-click translations effectively translate English reels into Spanish (or vice versa). Though othe

Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live: Black Myth Wukong Sequel, Resident Evil 9 and More

Europe's major gaming event of the year, Gamescom 2025, has kicked off in Cologne, Germany, with Opening Night Live, an extensive trailer showcase giving early looks at the biggest games coming later this year and into 2026. Last year's Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live had a ton of reveals, including Mafia: The Old Country and trailers for then-upcoming games like Marvel Rivals, Dune Awakening and more. This year's showcase had some big reveals and some tantalizingly short teases -- like around

Google announced the next step in its nuclear energy plans

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is one step closer to reaching its nuclear ambitions now that it’s working with public power utility Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to purchase electricity from a next-generation

Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn't Use a Laser on Eyeball

Image by Valeria Blanc / Getty Images Treatments Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK, a popular surgical procedure that uses high-power lasers to reshape the cornea to correct vision problems. During a meeting of the American Chemical Society, a team of scientists led by Occidental College chemistry professor Michael Hill showed off a new approach, called "electromechanical reshaping" (EMR), that uses small jolts of electr

Deal: Save 24% on the Amazon Echo Dot

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Amazon Echo speakers go on massive sales a few times a year, the hottest ones being during Prime Day and the holidays. Deals get pretty slow the rest of the year, but if you’re itching for a smart speaker right now, here’s a really nice deal. The Amazon Echo Dot is 24% right now, bringing the cost down to $37.99. Get the Amazon Echo Dot for just $37.99 ($12 off) This offer is available directly from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” The discount applies to al

Meta's AI voice translation feature rolls out globally

On Tuesday, Meta rolled out its new voice dubbing feature globally. The Reels feature uses generative AI to translate your voice, with optional lip-syncing. Mark Zuckerberg first previewed the feature at Meta Connect 2024. At launch, the translations are only available for English to Spanish (and vice versa). The company says more languages will arrive later. At least at first, it's restricted to Facebook creators with 1,000+ followers. However, anyone with a public Instagram account can use it

Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer

Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer 23 minutes ago Share Save Tom McArthur BBC News Share Save Getty Images An investigation has been launched into the death of a French streamer known for extreme challenges. Raphaël Graven, also known as Jeanpormanove, was found dead at a residence in Contes, a village north of Nice, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old had been subject to bouts of violence and sleep deprivation during streams, and died in his sleep during a live broadcast,

Apple Intelligence gets 20+ brand new features in iOS 26, here’s the full list

Apple Intelligence may not yet include the major Siri upgrades that were promised, but there are a ton of other new features coming in iOS 26. Here’s everything new New Apple Intelligence features coming in iOS 26 Apple Intelligence currently offers just over 20 features, but in iOS 26 there are another 20+ new features and improvements coming—all in a single software release. Here’s the full list of new AI features across four categories: Communication Communication is a big focus with App