NASA Plans Twitch Stream From ISS

NASA Plans Twitch Stream From ISS

NASA is planning to host a live Twitch stream next week from the International Space Station (ISS). “The stream, which takes place on February 12th at 11:45AM ET on NASA’s Twitch channel, will feature Don Pettit, an astronaut currently on the ISS, and Matt Dominick, who returned to Earth from the ISS in October,” reports … Read more

DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers

DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers

Thomas Reed, staff product manager for Mac endpoint detection and response at security firm Huntress, and an expert in iOS security, said he found NowSecure’s findings concerning. “ATS being disabled is generally a bad idea,” he wrote in an online interview. “That essentially allows the app to communicate via insecure protocols, like HTTP. Apple does … Read more

Sonos Considered a MagSafe Speaker for iPhone, But Scrapped It

Sonos Considered a MagSafe Speaker for iPhone, But Scrapped It

Sonos, known for its range of high-end speakers, considered developing a speaker that would connect to the iPhone via MagSafe, reports The Verge. Engineers at the company prototyped a tiny, iPhone-compatible speaker that would attach directly to the device, with music that would play over a Bluetooth connection. According to The Verge, the prototype speaker … Read more

Apple Made a Real-Life Pixar Lamp

Apple Made a Real-Life Pixar Lamp

Apple’s machine learning research division recently created a robot lamp, with the ability to move the light source around. It reminds use a lot of the iconic Pixar lamp. Apple’s Machine Learning Research department recently published a paper and a short video showcasing a new robot dubbed ELEGNT (Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic … Read more

A Graphene Biosensor Could Monitor Blood Pressure and More

A Graphene Biosensor Could Monitor Blood Pressure and More

Imagine it’s the year 2040, and a 12-year-old kid with diabetes pops a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. A temporary tattoo on his forearm registers the uptick in sugar in his blood stream and sends that information to his phone. Data from this health-monitoring tattoo is also uploaded to the cloud so his … Read more

Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe

Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe

Google has re-edited an advert for its leading artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Gemini, after it overestimated the global appetite for Gouda. The commercial – which was supposed to showcase Gemini’s abilities – was created to be broadcast during the Super Bowl. It showed the tool helping a cheesemonger in Wisconsin write a product description by … Read more

Unity is working with Toyota on the next-gen human machine interface for cars

Unity is working with Toyota on the next-gen human machine interface for cars

Game engines in cars are a thing, and so Unity was chosen by Toyota Motor to help it deliver a graphical user interface for Toyota’s next human-machine interface for cars. Toyota’s selection of Unity underscores the transformative potential of Unity’s real-time technology, refined through years of widespread use in the gaming industry across numerous platforms, … Read more

Technology that changed us: The 2000s, from iPhone to Twitter

Technology that changed us: The 2000s, from iPhone to Twitter

Jon Furniss/Getty Images Editor’s Note: ZDNET’s “Technology that Changed Us” series was first published in 2018. We’ve updated this installment to improve its accuracy and ensure that it reflects recent technology developments. In this 50-year retrospective, we’re looking at technologies that had an impact on the world, paved the way for the future, and changed … Read more