Everything Announced at Today’s Creature Feature & Friends VR Showcase

We got an eye-full of VR stuff during today’s Creature and VR Games Showcase livestream, which showed off a bevy of new VR games and updates coming to a headset near you. Here’s the full drop, frontloaded with a very obvious headliner: the upcoming sequel to Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades. Hot Dogs, Horseshoes […]

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Lab Hardware, Life Support Gear, and Human Research Fill Crew’s Day

The Expedition 74 crew spent the majority of their time maintaining science hardware and life support systems on Wednesday. The orbital residents aboard the International Space Station also pursued cardiovascular research, conducted a vision test, and performed other experiments throughout the day. NASA’s Spot the Station website finally got an upgrade! You can find International […]

Crew Works Health, Spacesuits, and Cargo Mission Preps on Tuesday

Health monitoring, spacesuit checks, and preparations for an upcoming cargo mission kept the Expedition 74 crew busy on Tuesday. The International Space Station residents rounded out the day with a variety of maintenance on science hardware and life support equipment.

The New Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $300 Off

Samsung’s latest flagship phone has a built-in Privacy Display and comes with an S Pen stylus.

I Ran a 10K With a Top-of-the-Line Garmin on One Wrist and a Budget Model on the Other, and Here’s What Happened

Do you want a watch that gets the job done, or one that makes you feel elite?

?? Tutorial: Replace your $2K/month Bookkeeper with AI

PLUS: everything you need + all prompts inside…

The Download: inside the Musk v. Altman trial, and AI for democracy

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: what it was like in the room Two of the most powerful figures in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—are in the middle of…

A blueprint for using AI to strengthen democracy

Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The telegraph made it possible to administer vast nations like the US, accelerating the growth of the modern bureaucratic state. Broadcast media created shared national audiences,…

Neat CEO: Centralised Codecs Can’t Solve the Large Meeting Room Problem

Javed Khan knows the codec business from the inside. Before joining Neat as CEO in March, he ran Cisco Collaboration as SVP and General Manager, overseeing a multi-billion-dollar portfolio that included its room device line. Neat’s co-founder and CTO, Ivar Johnsrud, was one of the engineers behind the Tandberg C90, later the Cisco C90, still […]

Could Microsoft Copilot Call Delegation Change How Teams Phone Users Handle Incoming Calls?

You are in a meeting. Your phone rings. Copilot answers it, works out what the caller wants, decides whether it is urgent enough to interrupt you, and either puts them through or books them in for later. That is what Microsoft has just switched on. Included in the company’s April 2026 Teams update, published on […]

Meta threatens to withdraw its apps from New Mexico

The move comes in response to proposed state regulatory measures designed to protect minors from accessing harmful content within the company’s apps.

Threads expands trending topic summaries to more regions

Topic summaries are determined by artificial intelligence, with the app’s team providing oversight to avoid violating community guidelines.

The XR Week Peek (2026.04.05): Valve launches the Steam Controller, the Samsung glasses have been leaked, and more!

May the Force be with you! Today is an exciting day for the XR community because it’s the day when the first Steam Hardware piece is being launched. It’s good to have such excitement because it’s not a positive period overall for immersive technology, with negative news coming every week. And this week, unfortunately, has […]

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XPANCEO is Hoping to Solve AR Contact Lens Challenge with Ultra Tiny Solid-State Batteries

If augmented reality glasses are the future, AR contact lenses are probably a bit farther away. Still, smart contact lens startup XPANCEO says it’s hoping to address at least one of the technology’s main issues with the inclusion of miniature solid-state batteries. In partnership with France-based solid-state battery startup ITEN, XPANCEO announced it’s developing a proof of concept […]

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You Might Get Some Money From This PlayStation Store Lawsuit

But it probably won’t be very much.

?? The Pentagon Just Went All-In on AI

PLUS: xAI shipped Grok 4.3 with a 1M-token context window…

Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: What it was like in the room

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…

Tailoring AI solutions for health care needs

The AI market is full of big promises of grand transformation. Health care is a prime target for those promises, beset as it is by financial pressures, labor shortages, and the growing burden of caring for an aging population. AI developers are targeting functions that vary widely, from curing cancer and performing surgery to streamlining…

Workhuman Launches AI Tool to Identify Future Leaders Within Workforce

Workhuman has unveiled a new AI-powered solution aimed at reshaping how organizations identify and develop future leaders. The offering, Future Leaders, is designed to help enterprises move beyond traditional succession planning by using data to surface high-potential employees years before they are formally considered for senior roles. “Now companies can know who their next generation […]

Your Collaboration Stack Isn’t Driving Productivity – It’s Institutionalising Distraction

There is a particular kind of exhaustion spreading through corporate offices that has nothing to do with overwork and everything to do with the tools meant to prevent it. Employees end the day having attended six meetings, answered hundreds of messages, and cleared a cascade of notifications – and yet the project that was supposed […]

Meta acquires humanoid robot developer Assured Robot Intelligence

It’s the latest move in a race to add artificial intelligence to consumer-facing home technology, with xAI and Amazon also competing for future category dominance.

YouTube experiments with new music generation and moderation tools

The platform will allow creators to replace copyrighted songs with royalty-free instrumental clips, while also using conversation context to filter video comments.

May The Fourth Sale Offers Huge Discounts For Every Star Wars VR Experience

As part of May The Fourth, catch these Star Wars VR experiences on deep discount right now.

VR Veteran Behind ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ & ‘Creed: Rise to Glory’ Reportedly Shutting Down

Survios, one of VR’s most senior game studios and developer behind Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024), is reportedly shutting down, as a majority of staff have been laid off. While Survios hasn’t publicly announced the shutdown at the time of this writing, the reduction in headcount appears to be drastic enough to all but confirm that […]

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Crew Works Advanced Radio Frequency, Quantum Physics, and Health Tech

The Expedition 74 crew kicked off the week setting up advanced radio frequency technology, configuring quantum physics hardware, and conducting ultrasound vein scans aboard the International Space Station. The crewmates also prepared for the arrival of the next U.S. cargo mission, unpacked the latest Roscosmos resupply ship, and checked out a spacesuit.