Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
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Google I/O 2026: All the news and announcements
Google I/O 2026 kicks off today, with the event’s keynote presentation slated for 10AM PT / 1PM ET on May 19th. Gemini is expected to be front and center once again at this year’s developer conference, with Google potentially introducing new versions of AI models and more agentic AI features. Google already showed off a […]
Sony’s 1000X The Collexion are a luxurious and expensive celebration of its iconic headphones
Ten years ago Sony introduced the MDR-1000X headphones. They combined noise canceling, good sound, design, and comfort in a way that we hadn’t quite seen before in a set of wireless headphones. (At the time, the Bose QC35 were the closest competitor, but I wasn’t a huge fan of their sound tuning.) The 1000X set […]
An AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation
The use of AI-powered tools to announce students as they walk on stage during graduation and commencement ceremonies has grown in popularity over the past few years, but it’s not always succeeding at the one job it’s there for. Many schools have switched to these systems as a way to ensure names are being pronounced […]
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It’s also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.
The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling
“The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible,” founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.
Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack
The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.
US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web
The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.
America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims – and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery […]
Apple’s accessibility features add more AI-powered processing
Apple’s annual update about accessibility features on its platforms has new additions for the iPhone, Mac, and especially Vision Pro, with a focus on how on-device AI processing is being used in features like VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader. One addition that jumped out to me is the ability to use on-device speech […]