Drug patents frequently cite research that the NIH wouldn’t be able to fund. The proposed federal budget would see drastic cuts made to most of the agencies that fund science. The sheer magnitude of the cuts—including a 40 percent slashing of money going to the National Institutes of Health—would…
AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks. With AI chatbots growing in popular usage, it was only a matter of time before large numbers of people began applying them to the stock market. In fact, at least 1 in 10 retail…
Tech firms pressed to explain if H-1B workers are paid less than US workers. Senators are demanding answers from Big Tech companies accused of “filing thousands of H-1B skilled labor visa petitions after conducting mass layoffs of American employees.” In letters sent to Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google, and Microsoft—among…
The least exciting iPhone this year is also the best value for the money. Apple seems determined to leave a persistent gap between the cameras of its Pro iPhones and the regular ones, but most other features—the edge-to-edge-screen design with FaceID, the Dynamic Island, OLED display panels, Apple Intelligence…
These features try to turn iPhones into more powerful work and organization tools. iOS 26 came out last week, bringing a new look and interface alongside some new capabilities and updates aimed squarely at iPhone power users. We gave you our main iOS 26 review last week. This time…
Search shows 2 million vulnerable Cisco SNMP interfaces exposed to the Internet. As many as 2 million Cisco devices are susceptible to an actively exploited zero-day that can remotely crash or execute code on vulnerable systems. Cisco said Wednesday that the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20352, was present in all…
Instead of contracting an outside team to campaign it, Ford Racing gets the job. Formula 1 might be riding high these days on a wave of interest not seen since the 1960s, but the Drive to Survive effect has been felt elsewhere in the world of motorsport. Endurance racing…
An AI figures out how robots can get jobs done without getting in each other’s way. A lot of the stuff we use today is largely made by robots—arms with multiple degrees of freedom positioned along conveyor belts that move in a spectacle of precisely synchronized motions. All this…
What’s next, Sonic games on Nintendo consoles? Oh, wait… For decades now, the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise has been associated with Microsoft’s own DOS/Windows operating systems and, more recently, Xbox consoles (weird exceptions like this 1986 Macintosh port notwithstanding). However, that era seems set to end as Sony announced…
NatGeo documentary Cleopatra’s Final Secret chronicles archaeologist Kathleen Martinez’s 20-year search Doomed Egyptian queen Cleopatra has captured the imaginations of people all over the world for centuries. Archaeologists have long sought to locate her tomb, which she shared with her lover, Mark Antony, per popular legend. Thus far, the…
