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This follows many drone incursions into Romania and a failed attack in Germany.

For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT […]

Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500 million monthly active users. It seems like a pretty full-featured app. Meta says that […]

Google TV Freeplay, the company's free, ad-supported streaming service, now supports video on demand. Instead of tuning into Google TV Freeplay's selection of always-on channels, you can now choose from over 10,000 shows and movies to watch whenever you want. The update introduces titles like Lady Bird, Seventeen Again, and Hell's Kitchen, according to Google's […]

I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown—the next day. And the reason? R/FIMI, as the office…

Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil , recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.

Rivian's CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to detail his journey, and the lessons it’s bestowed.

Zoom has patched a major security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to hijack anyone's device during a meeting. In a blog post on Tuesday, researchers at A Security say they uncovered the flaw using "fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models," as reported earlier by Wired. The exploit involved Zoom's annotation feature, […]

Bumble was famously built around exclusively giving women the power to initiate messages in heterosexual matches when it first launched in 2014 - but now the times they are a-changin' for the dating app. Today, Bumble has announced a "global evolution to its signature conversation experience": anyone can now send the first message, and the […]

GuliKit announced its first wireless controller to use an improved version of the anti-drift tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) thumbsticks featured in its budget-friendly ES Pro that debuted nearly a year ago. Available now for $49.99, the new GuliKit ES Max is more expensive than last year's $29.99 ES Pro, but still cheaper than Nintendo's Switch 2 […]

At Disrupt 2026, Amazon's Panos Panay will provide an exclusive vision for what's in store for us beyond the smartphone.

Mathematician James Maynard has spent a lot of time this past year "soul searching." A professor at the University of Oxford and winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, Maynard told The Verge he's been grappling with the future of his field as the traditionally slow-moving discipline hurries to adapt to AI. Days before we spoke, […]

Startups and Big Ag are using Crispr gene editing to create crops that taste better and grow on a hotter planet. But will they find a market?

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.

TL;DR — I built and open-sourced AI Health Steward , a self-hosted, private AI health manager for families. It reads photos of lab reports with multimodal LLMs, builds a structured per-person health profile, shows trends on a dashboard, and answers health questions grounded in your actual data — all running on your own server. Privacy isn't a feature; it's the whole point. Star it on GitHub . The problem: your health data is a product Every family has a shoebox — or a folder — of medical reports: blood tests, blood-pressure logs, prescriptions, scan findings. And every "convenient" health app wants to hold those records for you. But hold them where ? On someone else's cloud, to be monetized, analyzed, or lost when the startup pivots. Health records are the most sensitive data you own. They shouldn't be a product. They should live on your shelf. So I built the opposite: a self-hosted AI health steward where the data never leaves your server. What it does 📄 Take a photo of a lab report → structured data. A multimodal LLM extracts key metrics (BP, glucose, lipids, CBC…) with your confirmation before anything is filed. 🧬 A person-level health profile as the single source of truth — basics, metrics, diagnoses, medications, allergies, lifestyle, family history, and data provenance (where each value came from). 📈 Trend visualization with anomaly markers and clinical critical-value alerts (e.g. BP ≥ 180/110 triggers a "see a doctor" banner). 💬 AI consultation grounded in real data — not a generic chatbot. Intent routing + function calling means answers reflect your profile, not Wikipedia. 🗓️ Personalized checkup plans via a 1+X+Y framework, with budget tiers and safety/contraindication screening. 📋 Periodic health summaries (weekly/monthly/yearly), risk scales (PHQ-9, GAD-7, diabetes, ASCVD), and follow-up/medication reminders . 🧠 RAG over your own history — archived reports are vectorized so you can ask "what did my A1C trend look like over 3 years?" The architecture ┌────

Introduction Tennis players often find themselves in a feedback vacuum. Without a coach physically present, pinpointing what’s wrong with a stroke becomes a guessing game. This gap in immediate, stroke-specific guidance is a silent killer of progress, leaving players to rely on sporadic coaching sessions or self-diagnosis, which often misses the mark. The problem isn’t just about lack of access to coaches—it’s about the inability to see and correct subtle technique flaws in real time. Enter Rallylens , a web app born out of personal frustration. As a student and tennis player, I built this tool to address the disconnect between practice and feedback. It uses video analysis powered by AI to break down uploaded tennis videos frame by frame, identify stroke types (forehand, backhand, serve), and compare them against ideal technique benchmarks. The system doesn’t just flag errors—it explains them. For instance, if a backhand stroke shows an inconsistent racket angle, the feedback highlights this deviation and suggests adjustments, focusing on mechanics like wrist rotation or body alignment. The Mechanism Behind the Feedback Rallylens operates through a multi-step process that mimics a coach’s eye but with the precision of machine learning: Video Segmentation: Uploaded videos are split into frames, allowing the AI to analyze micro-movements that might be invisible to the naked eye. Stroke Classification: Using computer vision techniques , the model identifies the stroke type with an accuracy rate currently at 85%, though unusual playing styles can still cause misclassification. Pattern Analysis: The algorithm compares detected patterns against biomechanical benchmarks , flagging deviations like improper weight transfer or late racket contact. Feedback Generation: Instead of generic advice, the system generates actionable insights , such as “Adjust your shoulder tilt by 10 degrees to optimize power transfer.” Edge Cases and Limitations While Rallylens bridges a critical g

A reminder of the perils of digital ownership.

If you’ve got international travel coming up, an adapter is essential for keeping your phone, earbuds, power banks, and other gadgets charged. Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter is one of our picks from our guide to the best gadgets for summer travel because it can charge up to five devices at once, yet it’s small enough […]

Zuckerberg’s superyacht and support ship were slow to heed Coast Guard call.

Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seeing reposts from that one person who clogs up your feed with reposts of things you don't care about. If you follow me, I may be that […]