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Medical tests and microbiology topped the research schedule for the Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. The seven crewmates also worked on spacesuits, cargo operations, and life support maintenance.

26North Partners LP acquires Intermedia Intelligent Communications from Madison Dearborn Partners. Intermedia is a highly successful player in the AI-powered cloud communications, customer experience, and collaboration space, boasting more than $430 million in annual recurring revenue and delivering a remarkable 20 percent year-over-year growth rate in its core communications business. The platform currently supports over […]

Understanding the difference between project and task management tools is critical for improving team productivity and execution.   While both are often grouped together, they serve very different purposes – one focuses on tracking individual tasks, the other on delivering complex outcomes.   Many organizations choose the wrong type, leading to missed deadlines, poor visibility, and misaligned teams. […]

The Instagram Plus offering will give creators new features and is now live testing in some regions.

The company discussed how its AI approach to cement and concrete development can help producers compete on cost and build supply chain resilience.

Star Trek: Infection is out today on Quest 3, and we went hands-on with the VR survival horror game ahead of its release.

I’m in complete shock. Today I woke up, I went on X to interact with the XR community, and I immediately saw this post by Bradley: I thought it was an April Fools post, but then I checked the date, and it was definitely too early for that. Googling around, I found that it is […]

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It’s beautiful here: Spring has brought the Sun, higher temperatures, and also the blossoming of flowers. Everything is so alive now… except for the metaverse, which is dead, as you all know… Top news of the week Meta is slated to launch two new smartglasses According to two new FCC filings, spotted by the journalist Janko […]

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Expedition 74 started the week training for the arrival of the next U.S. cargo mission and continuing to clean up after last week’s spacewalk. The orbital residents also practiced medical emergency procedures, unloaded supplies from a new Roscosmos resupply ship, and ensured the International Space Station remains in tip-top shape.

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a new space within its Copilot app where users will be able to connect their medical records and ask specific questions about their health. A couple of days earlier, Amazon had announced that Health AI, an LLM-based tool previously restricted to members of its One Medical service, would…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Thursday, a California judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and ordering government agencies to stop using its AI. It’s the latest development in the month-long…

Effective communication across a school campus isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s essential. Relaying schedule changes, updating staff on room changes, and coordinating responses to emergencies are all necessary to keep a school running safely and efficiently.  Understanding this, many K-12 schools and colleges now use UC platforms like Microsoft Teams or Zoom so staff can remain in contact with each other. This works effectively for anyone […]

AI productivity research is everywhere in 2026. Analysts, standards bodies, consultancies, and vendors are all publishing new data on workplace AI statistics, ROI, adoption, and risk. The problem for buyers is not a lack of evidence. It is deciding which research actually matters when you are evaluating AI inside unified communications, collaboration, and the wider […]

The legislation would prohibit any artificial image and video generation platform, including X’s Grok, from generating unauthorized, sexually explicit images.

Starting in June, the platform will require users to schedule events ahead of time, although streams can be planned “just minutes in advance,” per the company.