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Exploding Primordial Black Holes Could ‘Rewrite the History of the Universe’

It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole theories. Yesterday, LIGO confirmed the famed physicist’s prediction about black hole mergers. Now, another team believes they’ve found a way to observe primordial black holes—cosmic behemoths that emerged not from the ashes of dying stars but from the chaos of the early universe. In a paper published September 9 in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists make the bold prediction that, within the next decade, we will be able to w

Digimon Story Time Stranger Preview: Can It Beat Pokemon at Its Own Game?

I'm halfway through my three-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore roleplaying game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for. Digimon S

Nobel laureate David Baltimore dead at 87

Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and former Caltech president David Baltimore—who found himself at the center of controversial allegations of fraud against a co-author—has died at 87 from cancer complications. He shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology for his work upending the then-consensus that cellular information flowed only in one direction. Baltimore is survived by his wife of 57 years, biologist Alice Huang, as well as a daughter and granddaughter. "David Baltimore's contributi

Digimon Story Time Stranger Preview: Can It Beat Pokémon at Its Own Game?

I'm halfway through my three-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore roleplaying game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for. Digimon S

The Next Digimon Game's Deep Customization Could Be Catnip for Pokemon Breeders

I'm halfway through my 3-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore role-playing game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for. Digimon Stor

To Help Workers Losing Their Jobs to AI, OpenAI Is Launching a Jobs Platform Run By AI

First it peddled the poison, and now it's selling the cure. OpenAI announced that it's launching a new AI-powered jobs platform next year that will use AI to match employers with potential candidates. Called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, the initiative will put it in direct competition with job juggernauts like LinkedIn, which has also been experimenting with integrating the tech. It marks a new direction for the company, perhaps as it tries to maintain some semblance of its altruistic image. As i

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US Customs asks court to toss Masimo lawsuit in Apple Watch dispute

A few days ago, Masimo sued U.S. Customs over its decision to let Apple resume selling the Apple Watch in the United States with the blood oxygen feature enabled. Now, the government agency has responded with a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Here are the details. A quick recap When Apple released the Blood Oxygen feature on the Apple Watch, medical device maker Masimo sued over alleged patent infringement. Over the years, the lawsuit dragged on and came to a head with an import ban in Decembe

Short Stories From the ‘Chainsaw Man’ Creator Are Becoming a Prime Video Anime

Just when you thought anticipation for the theatrical debut of MAPPA’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc and a film compilation of its first season was at its maximum, the Tatsuki Fujimoto train continues to show no signs of slowing down. Soon, more of the acclaimed manga creator’s early short stories will join the likes of his emotional gut-punch of a film, Look Back, in a new anime anthology series coming to Prime Video this November. Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26, produced by Flagship Line, will a

Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy

Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a habit of collaborating with Emma Stone specifically on dark comedy dramas with light sci-fi themes, such as 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness. And the trailer for their latest team-up, Bugonia, contains much of the same eclecticism, setting up a paranoia thriller that’s equal parts about environmentalism and extraterrestrials. Bugonia, inspired by Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi film, Save The Green Planet!, follows high-powered CE

Apple’s Blood-Oxygen Reading Feature Is in Legal Jeopardy… Again

Apple just reintroduced a blood-oxygen reading feature to some Apple Watches last week, but a new lawsuit could force the company to turn it off again. The health tech company Masimo sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday over an agency decision that allowed Apple to restore the feature. Masimo had previously sued Apple, claiming that the company had infringed on its patents. The timing of the lawsuit comes as Apple has been pushing deeper into medical devices, while also cozying

Masimo files lawsuit over Apple's 'redesigned' blood oxygen monitoring feature

Masimo, the medical technology company whose lawsuit led to the temporary sales pause of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, has sued the US Customs and Border Protection days after Apple released its redesigned blood oxygen monitoring feature. This is just the latest update in the lengthy legal saga between Masimo and Apple, which started when the former sued the iPhonemaker in 2021, accusing it of infringing on several of its light-based blood oxygen monitoring patents. After a court sided w

Now Masimo is suing US Customs over Apple Watch imports

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Medical tech company Masimo is suing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in an attempt to overturn the agency’s decision to allow Apple to restore the blood oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches. Masimo said it only learned that the ban had been reversed after Apple announced a “redesigned” pulse oximetry feature last week, which calculates blood oxygen levels on iPhones instead of the Watch. Apple ha

Apple Watch’s restored blood oxygen tracking attracts another lawsuit

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Medical tech company Masimo is suing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in an attempt to overturn the agency’s decision to allow Apple to restore the blood oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches. Apple has been embroiled in legal disputes over Masimo’s blood oxygen sensor patent since 2020, disabling the feature on supported US Apple Watch models following an ITC import ban in December 2023. In a comp

Masimo sues US Customs over Apple Watch blood oxygen workaround

Last week, when Apple announced the release of a “redesigned Blood Oxygen feature” to the Apple Watch, many figured Masimo (who had been suing Apple over patents related to the feature), would look for a way to fight back. Today, the company did just that and filed a new lawsuit. But this time, it’s against the US Customs and Border Protection. Here’s why. A bit of background When Apple released the Blood Oxygen feature on the Apple Watch, medical device maker Masimo sued over alleged patent i

Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Blood oxygen monitoring is returning to the Apple Watch — sort of. Starting today, Apple is rolling out a software update that enables a redesigned version of the feature for the Apple Watch Series 9, 10, and Ultra 2 that circumvents the import ban imposed by the International Trade Commission. To get around the ban, blood oxygen dat

The end of perimeter defense: When your own AI tools become the threat actor

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 Russia’s APT28 is actively deploying LLM-powered malware against Ukraine, while underground platforms are selling the same capabilities to anyone for $250 per month. Last month, Ukraine’s CERT-UA documented LAMEHUG, the first confirmed deployment of LLM-powered malware in the wild. The malware, attributed to APT28, utilizes stolen Hugging

Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

This blog is adapted from our talk at PyCon 2025. marimo is free and open source, available on GitHub. For a free online experience with link sharing, try molab. marimo is a new kind of open-source Python notebook. While traditional notebooks are just REPLs, marimo notebooks are Python programs represented as dataflow graphs. This intermediate representation lets marimo blend the best parts of interactive computing with the reproducibility and reusability of Python software: every marimo notebo

Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It

One of the biggest challenges facing Baltimore is blight. For decades, the city has grappled with population loss, leaving behind thousands of vacant homes and empty lots that scar neighborhoods. These empty spaces not only serve as a constant reminder of visible decline, but also drain city coffers and undermine community safety. Both the city and the state have launched ambitious initiatives to tackle this very problem. But what if the government’s own policies were quietly making the problem

Hiroshima (1946)

I—A Noiseless Flash At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. At that same moment, Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital

I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

I Asked Four Former Friends Why We Stopped Speaking-Here's What I Learned (2023)

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

I let this Segway robot mow my lawn for months - here's why it's been irreplaceable for me

Segway Navimow X3 Series ZDNET's key takeaways The Navimow X3 Series starts at $2,299 for the 0.5 acre capacity. This mower has some of the best navigation capabilities I've ever seen, it features ultra-fast charging, and has proven to be one of the most reliable and consistent mowers. It only ever had trouble with a low-lying solar panel on the grass, which is an understandable mistake. View now at Segway Mowing my lawn is no easy task for a robot -- not because it's especially large, but be

I let the Navimow X3 mow my grass for months - here's why I haven't touched it since

Segway Navimow X3 Series ZDNET's key takeaways The Navimow X3 Series starts at $2,299 for the 0.5 acre capacity. This mower has some of the best navigation capabilities I've ever seen, it features ultra-fast charging, and has proven to be one of the most reliable and consistent mowers. It only ever had trouble with a low-lying solar panel on the grass, which is an understandable mistake. View now at Segway Mowing my lawn is no easy task for a robot -- not because it's especially large, but be

Survey shows one Pixel 10 color is a clear fan favorite

Google’s upcoming Pixel 10 colors haven’t been officially announced yet, but we got a good look at the leaked renders above at the start of the week. Naturally, we wanted to know which one you’re most excited about, so we ran polls across our site and YouTube to find out. Now, the results are in. If you missed the leak that kicked things off, the Pixel 10 is expected to launch in four colors: Obsidian, Indigo, Frost, and Limoncello. Obsidian is Google’s classic black, while Indigo is deepish bl

OpenAI’s New Exec Has a Grand Plan to Make AI for Everyone

Fidji Simo knows technology can make life better or it can make inequality worse. As OpenAI’s incoming CEO of Applications, she’s making it clear which path she wants AI to take. “Every major technology shift can expand access to power,” she said in her memo announcing her new role on July 21. “The power to make better decisions, shape the world around us, and control our own destiny in new ways. But it can also further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few—usually people who alrea

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Poll: Which leaked Pixel 10 colorway is speaking to you the most?

Android Headlines Google’s new Pixel 10 lineup is coming next month, and as usual, leaks are pouring in from all corners. The latest one gives us a sneak peek at four rumored colorways for the standard Pixel 10: Obsidian, Indigo, Frost, and Limoncello. Honestly, we’re pretty excited about that palette. Which leaked Pixel 10 colorway do you like the most? 21 votes Obsidian 10 % Frost 29 % Indigo 38 % Limoncello 14 % I don't like any of these colors. 10 % The Indigo color is especially eye-catc

Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians who compete to solve six exceptionally difficult problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. Medals are awarded to the top half of contestants, with approximately 8% receiving a prestigious gold medal. Recently, the IMO has also become a

OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think

OpenAI OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in the race to build AI models that can reason their way through complex math problems. On Saturday, the company announced that one of its models achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Math Olympiad (IMO), widely regarded as the most prestigious and difficult math competition in the world. Critically, the winning model wasn't designed specifically to solve IMO problems, in the way that earlier systems like DeepMind's AlphaGo -- wh

Google and OpenAI Chatbots Claim Gold at International Math Olympiad

Artificial intelligence models developed by Google’s DeepMind team and OpenAI have a new accolade they can add to their list of achievements: they have defeated some high schoolers in math. Both companies have claimed to achieve a gold medal at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one of the toughest competitions for high school students looking to prove their mathematical prowess. The Olympiad invites top students from across the world to participate in an exam that requires

OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), matching a standard that fewer than 9 percent of human contestants reach each year. The announcement came despite an embargo request from IMO organizers asking AI companies to wait until July 28 to share their results. The experimental model reportedly tackled the contest's six proof-based probl