Firms say digital twins make staff more productive, but are they a potential legal minefield?

The Oppo Find X9 Ultra is still awaiting its April 21 unveiling, but there are units in the wild, which means we get videos like this one. It's an unboxing of the Oppo Find X9 Ultra in its Hasselblad Explorer Master Edition. The video is just 2 minutes long and goes through the accessories you'd get in this premium photography kit. Unlike vivo, Oppo went with a single teleconverter lens for its Find X9 Ultra, and it sits exactly in the middle of vivo's two lenses at 300mm equivalent. The kit ..

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two years ago, Microsoft launched its first wave of "Copilot+" Windows PCs with a handful of exclusive features that could take advantage of the neural processing unit (NPU) hardware being built into newer laptop processors. These NPUs could enable AI and machine learning features that could run locally rather than in someone's cloud, theoretically enhancing security and privacy. One of the first Copilot+ features was Recall, a feature that ..

Bug or feature? A design flaw or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.

Is Google really about to go full RGB gaming-phone with the Pixel 11's rear panel?

Chinese researchers grew 2D semiconductor films 1,000x faster using a liquid gold substrate, addressing the missing p-type material bottleneck.

The update is set to roll out at the end of the month, and it's unlikely to help your scrolling habit.

OpenAI is updating Codex with more agent-like capabilities, positioning it as a more direct rival to Anthropic's Claude Code. Some of the new features include the ability to operate macOS desktop apps, browse the web inside the app, generate images, use new workplace plug-ins, and remember useful context from past tasks. The Verge reports: Codex will now be able to operate desktop apps on your computer, OpenAI says in a blog post announcing the update. It can work in the background, meaning it ..

Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing UPDATED More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.

Walmart's listing reveals more details about Onn 4K Pro ahead of launch.

Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could.

For the first time in a while, the benefits of new Intel tech will trickle down.

Netflix co-founder and current chairman Reed Hastings is leaving the streaming companys board in June to focus on "his philanthropy and other pursuits," according to a shareholder letter released alongside Netflix's Q1 earnings. Hastings has served as chairman of Netflix's board since 2023, a role he assumed after stepping down as co-CEO and promoting Greg Peters in his place. "Netflix changed my life in so many ways, and my alltime favorite memory was January 2016, when we enabled nearly the ..

Today's launch returns the brand to serious running watches.

Apple Intelligence is getting enhanced in iOS 27, which will be unveiled this June at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, and will be released in September when the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max launch. Four new features coming to Apple Intelligence have been discovered in "backend code", and shared today. First, Visual Intelligence will get the ability to scan food nutrition labels to get more information, and this could integrate with the Health app. Another new Visual ..

GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.

Scientists engineered balsa wood to absorb sunlight, store heat, and generate electricity in darkness using nanoscale materials and phase change technology.

'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said. Broadcom's price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in far-flung edge locations, from cruise ships to solar farms in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is taking cost out of the hardware needed as well.

"If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down."

SWPA is one of the most prestigious global photo contests, and the 2026 instalment attracted over 430,000 from more than 200 countries. Here are the 10 category winners

BrianFagioli writes: The developers behind Linux Mint say the project is rethinking its release strategy and moving toward a longer development cycle, with the next version now expected around Christmas 2026. In a monthly update, project lead Clement Lefebvre said the team reached a "crossroads" and needs more flexibility to fix bugs, improve the desktop, and adapt to rapid changes across the Linux ecosystem. The upcoming development build, temporarily called Mint 23 "Alfa," is currently based ..

Low-key the best part of every new Android release.

Gucci owner Kering says its Google-backed Android XR smart glasses could arrive sometime in 2027.

New tool builds on deepsets Haystack toward a decentralized open source AI ecosystem.

Perplexity has just released Personal Computer . The software, which is available starting today for Mac, builds on the multi-model orchestration capabilities the company debuted with Perplexity Computer at the end of February . Like Claude Cowork (and, as of today, OpenAI Codex too), it's a suite of computer use agents that can work with your files, apps, connectors and the web to complete complex and "even continuous workflows." Perplexity suggests a few different use cases for Personal ..

Hyperscalers Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft have been investing heavily in chips to power quantum computing

Now Brief is expanding beyond phones to TVs and refrigerators.

We're finally closing in on that stable release!

The 12.5kg gas cylinder-sized motor achieves 8 kW per kilogram with a fault- tolerant design, targeting hydrogen hybrid regional aircraft under Project AMBER.

A new report from South Koreas ETNews suggests that the supply chain for components related to the iPhone 18 Pro series variable aperture cameras has now begun operations. The report claims China's Sunny Optical has reportedly started trial production for actuators, which will be used on the variable aperture cameras. An unnamed industry source confirmed that LG Innotek is on schedule to begin production for the 18 Pros camera modules between June and July. The same source also confirmed that ..

A Call of Duty movie is still happening, but don't hold your breath for it to hit screens any time soon. Today, the popular FPS' social media revealed that the movie's theatrical release date will be June 30, 2028. A film adaptation of the game franchise was first revealed last year, and shortly after, we learned that Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg would be serving as the producers. The duo, whose past credits include Friday Night Lights and Yellowstone , will also be co-writing the project ..

The head of the International Energy Agency warned that Europe may have only "six weeks or so" of jet fuel left if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz stays disrupted. The Associated Press reports: IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called "the largest energy crisis we have ever faced," stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital supplies through the Strait of Hormuz. "In the past ..

Linking Gemini directly to a user's photo library represents a bigger step in the AI chatbot link to private information.

AMD is planning to re-launch the Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor for a special occasion, celebrating the venerable Socket AM4's 10th anniversary since it launched all the way back in 2016.

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

Blackmagic Camera is one of the more powerful third-party smartphone camera apps available and it's now even more useful for solo creators. Blackmagic Design just announced that the latest iOS version 3.3 now supports Apple Watch, letting you control the app and monitor video remotely from your wrist. It also includes ATEM camera control so you can use your iPhone as a live studio camera. With the new Camera Apple Watch companion app, you can remotely control and monitor your iPhone from ..

Meta is starting to test a long-overdue facelift for Threads on web. The company's head of Threads Connor Hayes showed off a new look for the web version of Threads that finally adds direct messaging and makes it easier to navigate between multiple feeds. The new layout adds a bunch of new shortcuts to the site's left rail, including saved posts, insights, activity, and the ability to move between different feeds. Those features have all been accessible on web before, but many were hard to ..

The European Commission has proposed new measures for Google aimed at bringing the tech giant's search business into compliance with the Digital Markets Act. In order to allow third-party online search engines to be competitive with Google, the EC has recommended that Google permit those services to access its treasure trove of search engine data. As it stands, the proposal would require Google to let rivals see data points "such as ranking, query, click and view data, on fair, reasonable and ..