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ZDNET’s key takeaways * Android 17 has introduced app bubbles. * You can isolate an app so its icon is always on top. * It’s a Pixel exclusive for now, but is coming to other phones. Several years ago, Android introduced the ability to “bubble” a text conversation, or move that
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The iPhone Duo is officially going on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. Based on posts about the affected units on Reddit, the
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* Écoute unveil improved TH2 headphones * Use valve pre-amps for analog sound * They're not cheap! British audio brand Écoute — no, not French, despite the name — wowed us in January 2025 by sticking valve amps into headphones for a classy hi-fi appeal. And now it's done it again,
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The Celebrity Traitors season 2 episode 8 is out tonight, and we're desperate to see it. We're all dying to know what's in store for the celebs in The Traitors' castle. After being paranoid about it since the beginning, Ross Kemp was murdered
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In Brief 9:26 AM PDT · October 23, 2026 Daytona Platforms announced on Friday that it had raised a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation led by FirstMark Growth. The company says it has now raised a total of $91 million. The New York-based startup has
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Plant breeding decisions depend on data that spans genomics, field trials, imagery, environmental conditions, and model outputs. Bayer Crop Science runs hundreds of machine learning (ML) model configurations against this data across crops, regions, and teams, and each run needs to be repeatable and governed. To meet that requirement, Bayer
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With Amazon Quick Sight layer maps, you can now plot points and routes, like store locations across a city or flights leaving an airport. Geospatial maps help businesses spot patterns that are tied to location, like how a region is performing or where customers are concentrated. Amazon Quick Sight supports
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Updating the Amazon Sagemaker AI real-time endpoint configuration (changing the instance type, instance count, or environment variables) causes deployments through AWS CloudFormation or the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to fail. SageMaker AI requires you to deregister the scalable target before updating the endpoint, but when you deregister it,
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* Critical PHP2Shell flaws also impact internet-exposed NAS devices and PHP-based Docker workloads * Major vendors are still releasing patches, leaving some Synology, QNAP, and other systems exposed * Researchers urge immediate updates, removal of public exposure, and VPN-only remote access Websites and web servers are apparently not the only products affected by
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced on Thursday that it would receive $85 million from the U.S. government to develop advanced chips for the fusion power industry. Fusion power startups have been racing to complete their first demonstration devices, with CFS aiming to turn on its Sparc reactor sometime next
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The new restrictions are a test which is explicitly not supposed to impact these entities. Screenshot (Meta) Daniel Starks is the communications manager for Greenville, Texas, a city of about 35,000. He oversees nearly a dozen Facebook pages the city maintains. Recently, the page for the city's
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Elon Musk gave his personal political committee, America PAC, more than $76 million in the first two weeks of October to boost Republicans in the final stretch of the midterms, according to a pre-election report the PAC filed Thursday evening with the Federal Election Commission. The group spent nearly $43
