Credit:SpVVK / Getty ImagesAt its Google I/O 2025 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Android Studio—the official IDE for Android development—is getting a major AI enhancement.Alongside the release of the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro model, Android Studio is introducing a new "agentic AI" feature called Journeys and an upcoming "Agent Mode" to support...
Credit: PixabaySwabs collected from China's Tiangong space station have uncovered traces of a previously unknown bacterium, exhibiting traits that could enable it to survive in harsh conditions hundreds of kilometers above Earth's surface.New Bacterium on Tiangong Space Station May Help Protect Astronauts and SpacecraftResearchers from the Shenzhou Space Biotechnology Group and the Beijing...
Credit: PixabayA data center developer and a battery startup will debut a new kind of energy storage at a U.S. data center, marking the latest effort by tech firms to address the rising energy demands of artificial intelligence.Prometheus Hyperscale and XL Batteries will install an organic flow battery at Prometheus' one-gigawatt Wyoming data center,...
Credit: PixabayOn Tuesday, Microsoft announced it was streamlining management and leveraging new technology, amid reports of thousands of employee layoffs.The AI-driven tech giant did not reveal the exact number of job cuts, but U.S. media reports estimate around 6,000 positions, roughly 3% of its global staff.According to a filing with Washington state's labor agency,...
Image Credits:Getty ImagesFederal safety officials have issued Tesla a comprehensive set of questions regarding its upcoming robotaxi service, as part of an investigation into how the company’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” software performs under low-visibility conditions.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation is seeking further details on FSD (Supervised) to better understand...
Credit: PixabayTwo University of Waterloo graduates are reshaping Major League Baseball (MLB) with a data-powered pitching simulator that mimics the experience of facing a pro pitcher.Joshua Pope (BASc) and Rowan Ferrabee (BASc) founded Trajekt Sports in their fourth year with support from Dr. John McPhee. The technology idea, however, originated during Pope's time as...
Credit: EngadgetTesla has canceled its plan to offer a range extender for the Cybertruck and has begun notifying customers who placed a $2,000 reservation for the $16,000 add-on. According to emails shared on social media and forums, the company will issue full refunds. Tesla hasn't explained the decision, but it follows the quiet removal...
Credit: PixabayJapanese astronomers have found that the unknown X-ray source AX J145732−5901 is a galaxy cluster behind the galactic plane. The researchers outlined these findings in a paper released on April 30 on the arXiv preprint server.Discovery and Early Observations of AX J145732−5901 with ASCANASA launched the ASCA satellite in 1993 to study distant...
Credit: PixabayA novel approach to understanding gravity may help bridge the long-standing divide between gravity and quantum mechanics. Physicists Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki from Aalto University in Finland have proposed a new perspective on gravity that they claim aligns with the Standard Model of particle physics, which explains the Universe's other three fundamental forces:...
An artist's impression of a magnetar. (ESA)On the edge of our galaxy, one of the universe’s rarest stellar objects just became even more puzzling.Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia observatory, astronomers examined the environment around SGR 0501+4516, a magnetar — a highly magnetized type of neutron star. Their findings suggest that...
