AI vendors spent most of May making announcements—and pushing their way into almost every category here. But it’s not the only story worth watching. Doctors have used CRISPR to correct the DNA of a baby with a rare and previously untreatable condition. We won’t know whether the treatment worked for years, but the baby appears … Read more
A representative for Google said the behavior violates the terms of service for its Play marketplace and the privacy expectations of Android users. “The developers in this report are using capabilities present in many browsers across iOS and Android in unintended ways that blatantly violate our security and privacy principles,” the representative said, referring to … Read more
Samsung recently launched the Galaxy S25 Edge, a super thin smartphone that will compete with Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 Air. To see what it’s like using such a thin phone, MacRumors video editor Dan Barbera used it as his main device for two weeks to see what it might be like to use Apple’s equivalent … Read more
The Samsung 990 PRO with Heatsink is a high-performance 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD now priced at $149.99 on the official Samsung site. This is a $60 discount from its original price, which is normally $209.99. The drive uses Samsung’s advanced V-NAND flash technology, which delivers read speeds of up to 7450 MB/s and write … Read more
Naveen Verma’s lab at Princeton University is like a museum of all the ways engineers have tried to make AI ultra-efficient by using analog phenomena instead of digital computing. At one bench lies the most energy-efficient magnetic-memory-based neural-network computer ever made. At another you’ll find a resistive-memory-based chip that can compute the largest matrix of … Read more
Tom Gerken Technology reporter The Met Police seized more than 1,000 handsets in a crackdown in February Senior figures at Apple and Google have clashed with the police over its recommendations for how best to deal with phone theft in the UK. The Met’s James Conway told the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee – … Read more
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Witcher 4 is still years away from release, but we now have a much better idea of what the open-world RPG will look like. CD Projekt Red showed off a gorgeous tech demo of The Witcher 4 during Epic Games’ State of Unreal keynote this morning at Unreal Fest 2025. What … Read more
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I’m all about being efficient. Whether it’s on my phone, a desktop, or a laptop, I want my workflow to be fast, smooth, and simple. Because of that, I’m always on the search for tools to improve how I do what I do. Although MacOS has a built-in search tool … Read more
The FDA has launched the generative AI tool, Elsa, agency-wide to help its employees with everything from clinical reviews to investigations. Sure, we’re living in a time of widespread disinformation and pushbacks against science, but why not rush things through with AI? Elsa — yes, weirdly like the snow queen from Frozen — completed a … Read more
According to my iPhone, I spend more than 8 hours a day on my phone — yikes. I’m sure I hold my iPhone close to my face at times, especially at night, and that might be why my eyes feel uncomfortable sometimes, like I’ve got something in them. Luckily, there’s a hidden iPhone feature that … Read more