This robotic self-driving toilet comes to you
During a recent expo in Shanghai that focuses on elderly care, assistive devices, and rehabilitation medicine, a Chinese company called Yueban debuted a smart toilet that does something we haven’t seen before; it comes to you. The autonomous self-driving Xiaoban…
Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil
Apple announced on Thursday that developers in Brazil are now allowed to distribute their iOS apps through alternative app stores and process payments for digital goods and services outside the App Store. The changes, which are part of Apple’s agreement…
Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different
If anyone in tech has already started their Hot IPO Summer, it’s Silicon Valley’s elite wealth advisers. Two private wealth managers who work with high-net-worth techies told me they’ve seen an uptick in activity from their client base, some of…
Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries before Stonehenge
A reconstruction of the summer solstice celebrations as they might have appeared at Bulford thousands of years ago Marijane Porter, Wessex Archaeology Stone Age peoples in Britain built a wooden monument to mark the summer solstice, 500 years before they…
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Ozempic and Wegovy linked to surprising drop in violent behavior
Popular GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy are best known for helping people lose weight and manage diabetes. New research from Rutgers University suggests these drugs may also be linked to changes in behaviors associated with violence. The study,…
Midjourney, The AI Image Generator, Is Developing A Full-Body Ultrasonic Scanner
Midjourney, known for its AI program that can generate images from text prompts, has announced its new project: A medical machine that can scan your whole body in just 60 seconds. It’s so far removed from what Midjourney is known…
Midjourney Medical goes from AI image generation to full-body ultrasounds
Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company’s first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the “cat pictures” produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney…
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs
It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display,…
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy
The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter….
Goose Holds Moment of Silence After Man Dies at MSG Concert
One day after a fan died at their Madison Square Garden concert, rock band Goose held a moment of silence during their Central Park show on Sunday, June 21. “In moments like this, you realize life is so fragile, we’re…
New-to-science spider builds trap that flings ants into the air
A ballista spider waits for a green tree ant to bite the cone of its web and spring the snare Professor Ajay Narendra et al. 2026 A newly discovered spider in Australia builds a snare trap designed to catch a…
