
Sky News - 7 hours 34 min ago
Patients with a previously untreatable form of blood cancer are now living disease-free after a world-first gene therapy.

NBC News - 8 hours 12 sec ago
Robotaxi company Waymo says it will issue a software recall amid growing safety concerns over its self-driving cars that include some alarming incidents near schools and school buses. Administrators at one school district in Texas say there have been 20 violations from the driverless vehicles since the start of the school year and are calling for the service to temporarily cease operations during some hours. NBC's Liz Kreutz reports for TODAY.

ABC News - 8 hours 4 min ago
IBM has announced it's acquiring data streaming platform Confluent in an $11 billion deal...

IEEE Spectrum - 8 hours 25 min ago
I was interviewing a 72-year-old retired accountant who had unplugged his smart glucose monitor . He explained that he "didn't know who was looking" at his blood sugar data. This wasn't a man unfamiliar with technology he had successfully used computers for decades in his career. He was of sound mind. But when it came to his health device, he couldn't find clear answers about where his data went, who could access it, or how to control it. The instructions were dense, and the...

Variety - 8 hours 43 min ago
The Golden Globes announced its first-ever nominees for best podcast, with Alex Cooper, Amy Poehler and the trio behind “SmartLess” among those receiving nods in the category. The six nominees in the best podcast category are: “Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard”; Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy”; “Good Hang With Amy Poehler”; “The Mel Robbins Podcast”; […]...

Air and Space - 9 hours 17 min ago
For this chore, the human touch still beats machines. But maybe not for long...

GeekSpin - 9 hours 24 min ago
Artificial intelligence has officially infiltrated the world of holiday advertising, and McDonald's Netherlands is leading the charge with a Christmas commercial created entirely by AI. Tossing aside traditional polished festive imagery, the fast-food giant has unveiled a wonderfully chaotic short film that embraces the true stress and mayhem of December, cheekily dubbing it "The Most […] Read the original article here: McDonald's releases Christmas commercial created entirely...

The Guardian - 9 hours 36 min ago
As midlife audiences turn to digital media, the 55 to 64 age bracket is an increasingly important demographic In 2022, Caroline Idiens was on holiday halfway up an Italian mountain when her brother called to tell her to check her Instagram account. "I said, I haven't got any wifi. And he said: Every time you refresh, it's adding 500 followers.' So I had to try to get to the top of the hill with the phone to check for myself." A personal trainer from Berkshire who began posting...

Variety - 9 hours 56 min ago
Joe Wicks, the popular British fitness coach, author, influencer and entrepreneur, has signed with WME. Known to many as “The Body Coach,” Wicks has become a major name in health, fitness and witness, building an online community and selling hundreds of thousands of cook books. Having started off by posting 15-second recipe videos on social […]...

Wired - 10 hours 25 min ago
This waterproof ultra-portable comes with a splash of party.

Vox - 10 hours 25 min ago
Residents of Saline, Michigan, rally against a $7 billion Stargate data center on December 1, 2025. | Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For more than a century, the Conshohocken steel mill in suburban Philadelphia employed thousands of people and anchored a booming industrial economy. But the original owner went bankrupt in the 1970s, after which the facility limped on with a succession of new owners. Last summer it was idled indefinitely, and put up for sale . It's a familiar...

Wired - 11 hours 25 min ago
This year's bumper crop looks at salsa, noodles, drinking culture, and home baking.

The New Yorker - 11 hours 25 min ago
"Bob Kaufman loved San Francisco's / gentle malaise, long views of bay / & insistent bridge, the ocean right after."...

ABC News - 15 hours 55 min ago
A six-episode, behind-the-scenes Disney+ docuseries about Taylor Swift's Eras Tour and Rian Johnson's third "Knives Out" movie, "Wake Up Dead Man," are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you...

The Guardian - 19 hours 24 min ago
Should we be worried about the vast amounts of money pouring into AI? And what will happen if the bubble bursts? Blake Montgomery reports For months there have been fears that artificial intelligence is a bubble and that it is about to burst. As the Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery explains, the magnificent seven Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla make up one-third of the value of the S&P 500, the index of the 500 biggest stocks in the US market. All are heavily invested...

NPR - 1 day 9 hours ago
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Katie Bindley about Waymo self-driving vehicles and recent changes to how assertively they navigate traffic.

New York Times - 1 day 21 hours ago
The new repost button can be easy to hit when you intend to share privately or view comments instead.

NBC News - 1 day 23 hours ago
As catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Texas Hill Country on July 4, dispatchers received multiple frantic 911 calls from Camp Mystic, a Christian sleepaway camp for girls, describing children gone missing and pleading for helicopters to rescue them...

Newser - 2 days 3 hours ago
SpaceX is seeking a new $800 billion valuation in a secondary share sale, which would make Elon Musk's enterprise the most valuable private company in the US overtaking OpenAI. The potential price tag is double what SpaceX was valued at for a share sale in October. Executives said the company...

Variety - 2 days 4 hours ago
On the heels of announcing its blockbuster agreement to buy Warner Bros. and HBO Max, Netflix sought to reassure customers that nothing will be changing — right now — with its service or subscription plans. The streaming company sent an email late Friday to millions of Netflix subscribers with the subject line: “Welcoming Warner Bros. […]...

Sky News - 2 days 13 hours ago
A groundbreaking trial for a prostate cancer treatment has been launched in the UK, with the hope of reducing the side effects.

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 21 hours ago
Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, was once seen as an underdog in Hollywood. Now, the former Arizona video store manager has emerged as one of the biggest Hollywood moguls yet.