FRIDAY, 27 JUNE 2025, 06:16
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neuroscience News Science Magazine: Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening the chest. […] Using a surgical robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and his team made small, precise incisions, eliminating the need to open the chest and break the breast bone. Liao removed the...
The winter crop growing season requires three days of steady rain – but many inland parts of southern Australia did not receive an autumn break this year
How often do you mow your lawn in winter? It may seem like an odd way to start a conversation about drought, but the answer helps explain why our current drought has not broken, despite recent rain – and why spring lamb may be more...
Apple’s Swift programming language is expanding official support to Android through a new “Android Working Group” which will improve compatibility, integration, and tooling. “As it stands today, Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin, but Apple is looking to provide its Swift coding language as an alternative,” notes 9to5Google. “Apple first launched its coding language back in 2014 with...
Comcast is introducing new simplified, contract-free broadband plans that eliminate its unpopular 1.2TB data cap for residential customers. “The company began enforcing a data cap in 2008, when it set that limit at 250GB,” notes PCMag. “Four years later, it raised that to 300GB, then lifted it to 1TB in 2016 and inched it up again to 1.25TB in 2020 after suspending it entirely during the early...
Facing mounting competition from autonomous taxi services like Waymo, Uber is in early talks to help fund Travis Kalanick’s potential acquisition of Pony.ai’s U.S. subsidiary (source paywalled; alternative source). If completed, the deal would reunite Kalanick with Uber (now under CEO Dara Khosrowshahi) and position Pony.ai to operate independently of its Chinese parent amid rising U.S....
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched Offerwall, a new tool that allows publishers to generate revenue beyond the more traffic-dependent options, like ads. Offerwall lets publishers give their sites’ readers a variety...
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.
Bank Zero founder Michael Jordaan announced that Lesaka bought their bank for R1.1 billion, pending regulatory approvals.
Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland — no X11 support for HDR — and Vulkan graphics accelerator. HDR support for Blender 5.0 on Linux is currently considered experimental. Enabling the HDR support on Linux for the Blender creator software requires...
Google is bringing its AI Overviews-like feature to YouTube in the form of an “AI-powered search results carousel.” The Verge reports: As shown in a video, the search results carousel will show a big video clip up top, thumbnails to a selection of other relevant video clips directly under that, and an AI-generated bit of text responding to your query. To see a full video, tap on the big clip at...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users whose support contracts had expired and who subsequently declined to subscribe to one of Broadcom’s VMware bundles, Broadcom has started the process of conducting audits on former VMware customers. […] Ars Technica reviewed a letter that a software provider and VMware user in the...
Apple will allow developers in the European Union to distribute iOS apps outside its App Store, the company said Thursday in a bid to avoid escalating fines from Brussels regulators. The policy change came on the deadline for Apple to comply with EU rules or face new financial penalties that can reach up to 5% of average daily worldwide revenue. The $3 trillion iPhone maker has been negotiating...
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was ousted in 2017, purchase an autonomous vehicles start-up as robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.
PlayStation will continue withholding its first-party games from PlayStation Plus on launch day, despite Xbox offering day-one releases through Game Pass. Nick Maguire, PlayStation’s vice president of global services, told Game File the company remains committed to its current approach of adding first-party titles to the subscription service 12 to 18 months after release. “We’ve sort of stayed...
The Bear, Adults, and The Handmaid’s Tale are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. From a report: Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor...
Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed
New generations of wild ash trees are rapidly evolving resistance to the fungus devastating their numbers, scientists have discovered.
The discovery gives hope, the researchers said, and shows that allowing the natural regeneration of woodlands is vital to enabling this evolution to...
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Malaysia will ban plastic waste imports from the U.S. starting Tuesday because of America’s failure to abide by the Basel Convention treaty on international waste transfers, in a move that could have significant consequences for California. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California...
Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers. His death was announced in a prerecorded video.
Trump Mobile maintains the gold smartphone will be made in the US, despite the changed wording on its website.