Do you know what the No. 1 cause of death is in America? According to the CDC, it’s heart disease, which causes more deaths than cancer, accidents and COVID-19. In a 2025 American Heart Association report, the organization reveals that someone dies of cardiovascular disease every 34 seconds. With that in mind, when was the … Read more
New AirPod Pros, when? They may be months away from existence, but the documentation circulating through the U.S. patent offices reveals Apple is cooking something up for its high-end earbuds. And unlike the last major update, it’s not just swapping out the Lightning port for USB-C. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted … Read more
Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the Argentine author Michel Nieva, emerges. The eponymous Dengue Boy is a mosquito–human hybrid who might be an experiment, a genetic mutant, or the result of some terrible corporate crime. He might be all three at once. In any … Read more
Some Google Maps users can now access more ways to customize their car’s icon while using the app. As it stands, Google Maps only lets you choose one of four icons: an arrow, a red car, a yellow SUV, or a green truck. But, as 9to5Google spotted, some Android users are now prompted about “early access … Read more
Google launched its much-anticipated new flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, on Wednesday. The announcement was part of a series of other AI model releases. The company is also making its “reasoning’ model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, available in the Gemini app. Notably, Google is releasing these AI models as the tech world remains … Read more
When I heard that Apple had reportedly scrapped its plans for “Apple Vision Lite” AR glasses, I was the furthest thing from shocked. Apple cancels projects all of the time, but more than being risk-averse, the Silicon Valley company has shown very little interest in the categories where it doesn’t already dominate sales. And Samsung, … Read more
Nick Fernandez / Android Authority Update (8:49 AM ET February 5, 2025): Official documentation from the US Customs and Border Patrol states that all shipments from China will now be subject to formal processing fees, regardless of their value. These fees total $32.71. The USPS has resumed accepting packages from China and Hong Kong, but … Read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead.” A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which has … Read more
There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. That is not new. The first programmers connected physical circuits to perform each calculation. They … Read more
On Monday, Nvidia announced Project DIGITS, a small desktop computer aimed at researchers, data scientists, and students who want to experiment with AI models—such as chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators—at home. The $3,000 device, which contains Nvidia’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, debuted at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. It will launch in May … Read more