Depemokimab Reduces Exacerbations in Type 2 Asthma, CRSwNP Over 2 Years
Depemokimab, GSK's ultra‑long‑acting biologic, achieved a 51% overall reduction in asthma exacerbations and a 69% reduction in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) in the phase 3 SWIFT‑1/2 trials. The drug was administered subcutaneously at 100 mg every 26 weeks, with efficacy sustained through a 2‑year open‑label extension (AGILE). Patient‑reported outcomes improved markedly, with St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire scores falling by nearly 14 points at week 52 and 16 points at week 104. Safety remained manageable, with serious adverse events in 13% of participants and no treatment‑related deaths.
Beyond the Fireball: My Reflections on the New Glenn Explosion
Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a catastrophic explosion during a hot‑fire test at Space Launch Complex 36, though no one was injured. The blast destroyed the vehicle and heavily damaged the launch pad, prompting a thorough investigation into engines, propellant systems, avionics...
AI Can Change the World—If We Change Who It’s Built For
In Q1 2026 investors poured $300 billion into 6,000 AI startups, yet less than 10% of that capital targets social and environmental challenges. The article highlights founders like Temie Giwa‑Tubosun of LifeBank, the FLAIR language‑preservation project, and Amini’s SMS‑based farming platform as...
The Trade Show Strategy No One Is Talking About — and How It Built Nearly $1M in Pipeline
Kanbar Digital transformed its Natural Products Expo West booth into a live‑content studio, offering on‑site video production for CPG brands. The approach generated over 80 videos, 100+ qualified leads, and a pipeline valued up to $972,000 annually, delivering a 13×...
No Need for Tickets Says Workday's Jerry Ting, as New Agents Take on IT Provisioning and Travel
Workday unveiled two AI agents—Travel Agent and Sana for IT Service Management—that automate multi‑step workflows across disparate enterprise applications. The Travel Agent can schedule trips, book travel, update calendars, and generate expense reports while enforcing corporate policies. Sana for ITSM...
8 Tips to Evaluate LMS Pricing Plans
The article outlines eight practical steps for evaluating learning‑management system (LMS) pricing, emphasizing that headline rates often hide hidden costs. It advises buyers to examine quote context, active‑learner counts, core versus optional features, implementation fees, support quality, renewal clauses, administrative...
Ultrahuman Adds Red Light Therapy to Its Personalized Wellness Lineup
Ultrahuman launched the Photon red‑light therapy device, priced at $249 and available for preorder. Photon syncs with the company’s Ring Pro and Ring Air wearables, using sleep and recovery data to tailor therapy sessions. The device delivers dual wavelengths—660 nm red...
ID4Africa’s Joseph Atick on Why Africa Is Setting the Pace for Digital Identity
At the ID4Africa 2026 AGM in Abidjan, Dr. Joseph Atick highlighted Africa’s rapid ascent as a global leader in national digital identity deployment and cross‑border interoperability. He argued that the continent’s success stems from building sustainable digital‑identity ecosystems rather than...
Fiserv Turns to Devin AI to Speed Core Banking Upgrades
Finserv has partnered with Cognition to integrate Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, into its core banking platform. Devin can plan, write, test, and deploy code across complex codebases, dramatically shortening release cycles for bank clients. The initiative aims to...
Google’s Pixel 10 Pro XL Gets a Late May Price Cut for a Limited Time
Google has slashed the price of its flagship Pixel 10 Pro XL 256 GB model to $899, a $300 discount, with an additional $100 off through eligible trade‑ins, bringing the net cost to $799. The device boasts a 6.8‑inch Super Actua...
Resmetirom Cuts CV Risk in MASH: Meena Bansal, MD
Resmetirom, a thyroid hormone receptor‑β agonist, showed in secondary analyses of the phase 3 MAESTRO‑NASH and MAESTRO‑NAFLD‑1 trials that it reduces LDL‑C, apolipoprotein B and lipoprotein(a) in patients with metabolic dysfunction‑associated steatohepatitis (MASH) even when they are already receiving statins. The lipid...
MeMo's Memory Model Lets Teams Upgrade Their LLM without Retraining It — and Performance Jumps 26%
Researchers introduced MeMo, a modular framework that pairs a small memory model with a frozen executive LLM to ingest new knowledge without retraining the main model. By encoding updates in a dedicated memory model and using model‑merging techniques, MeMo adds...
Pfizer, Innovent Ink Up-to-$10.5B+ Cancer Treatment Collaboration
Pfizer and China’s Innovent Biologics have signed a global licensing and collaboration deal to co‑develop and co‑commercialize 12 early‑stage antibodies and antibody‑drug conjugates (ADCs) targeting cancer. Pfizer will pay Innovent $650 million upfront and up to $9.85 billion in milestone payments, plus...
SpaceX Gets Nearly $4.2 Billion Nod From Space Force For Initial SB-AMTI
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command awarded SpaceX a nearly $4.2 billion Other Transaction Authority contract to field the initial Space‑Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator (SB‑AMTI) system, following a $2.3 billion contract for the Space Data Network Backbone. SB‑AMTI will deploy...
The Most Successful Real Estate Investors Think Like CEOs
Real‑estate investors are moving beyond single‑property deals toward a CEO‑style approach, treating their holdings as a coordinated business. By adopting a living business plan and system‑driven processes, they replace reactive, task‑by‑task management with strategic, data‑backed decision‑making. Modern property‑management platforms automate...
Airwallex Challenges Legacy Software With New Billing Solution
Airwallex has launched Airwallex Billing, a flexible invoicing, subscription and usage‑based billing suite integrated into its global payments platform. The solution supports digital invoices in over 160 payment methods, settlement in more than 20 currencies and automated reconciliation. It targets...
LPL Moving Commonwealth Advisors Off Advisor360° Tech Platform
LPL Financial announced it will migrate the 2,900 advisors acquired from Commonwealth Financial Network off the proprietary Advisor360° workstation onto LPL’s ClientWorks platform. The existing Advisor360 contract expires Monday, after which LPL has no obligation to maintain the service. The...
Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google unveiled Gemini Spark at its I/O conference, positioning it as an always‑on AI agent that taps into a user’s Gmail, Docs, and Calendar to automate tasks. The beta rolls out to subscribers of the $100‑per‑month AI Ultra plan and lives...
I Tried to Break the Luba 3 AWD Robomower
Mammotion sent a $2,799 Luba 3 AWD 3000HX for testing, and the reviewer found it hard to fault. The mower now uses NetRTK over 4G/Wi‑Fi, removing the need for an external RTK base, and adds a LiDAR sensor plus dual AI cameras for...
‘The Most Significant Change in 20 Years’: Cancer Centers Prepare for Daraxonrasib Demand
U.S. health systems are seeing a surge in demand for daraxonrasib after the FDA issued a May 1 expanded‑access letter. The drug, a KRAS‑G12C inhibitor from Revolution Medicines, showed a 35% response rate and median overall survival of 13.1 months in...
The 6 Best Clip-On Earbuds I've Tested for 2026
CNET’s 2026 roundup identifies the top clip‑on true‑wireless earbuds, spotlighting Bose Ultra Open, Shokz OpenDots One, Sony LinkBuds Clip, Baseus Inspire XC1 and Anker Soundcore AeroClip. The list ranks each model on sound, battery life, durability and price, noting Bose’s premium...
‘Like Christmas’: Woman’s Relief After Test Finds She Can Skip Chemotherapy
A multinational Optima trial involving 4,429 breast‑cancer patients showed that the Prosigna genomic test can reliably identify women who may forgo chemotherapy. The five‑year disease‑free survival was 93.7% for patients who skipped chemo, statistically indistinguishable from the 94.9% rate in...
RNA Therapy for Genetic Heart Failure Moves Closer to Patients After Lab Gains
Researchers at University Medical Center Groningen demonstrated that RNA therapy targeting the PLN R14del mutation reduces protein aggregation and restores cellular function in patient‑derived heart cells. Using induced pluripotent stem cell‑derived cardiomyocytes, the treatment reversed phosphoproteomic abnormalities linked to calcium regulation....
From QVC to Countdown Timers — How eCosmetics Is Turning Beauty Shopping Into a Live Auction Game
eCosmetics Live is turning beauty shopping into a real‑time auction game, where creators host short, timed bidding sessions that lock in purchases the moment a countdown ends. The global live commerce market, already $15.5 billion in 2024, is forecast to explode...
Maine Enlists AI to Help Combat Rising Home Insurance Rates
Maine’s Bureau of Insurance launched the $15 million Fortify Maine Homes grant, offering up to $15,000 per homeowner to fund roof and resilience upgrades as insurance premiums have risen 23% in recent years. The state partnered with geospatial platform Forerunner to...
FBI Issues Alert on Cyber Actors Impersonating IT Personnel
The FBI issued an alert warning that the Silent Ransom Group, also known as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider and UNC3753, is impersonating IT support staff to infiltrate organizations. The threat actor has focused on healthcare and other critical sectors since...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Faces Setback After New Glenn Rocket Explodes
Generative AI has become a core productivity tool, but its output hinges on how users prompt it. The article outlines ten practical prompting techniques—from assigning a clear role to iteratively refining queries—that dramatically improve relevance, accuracy, and format. By treating...
Why Your Mesh Wi-Fi Can't Reach Gigabit Speeds — and the Node Placement Fix that Works
Mesh Wi‑Fi systems often fail to deliver gigabit speeds because users place nodes without considering wireless backhaul quality. A built‑in mesh test, like Google Nest Wi‑Fi Pro’s, reveals connection strength and offers placement tips. Proper node placement—midway between the primary...
Podcast: Tesla Robotaxi Numbers, Ferrari’s Controversial Luce Launches, Waymo Ojai, and More
Electrek’s weekly podcast aired Friday, covering a range of sustainable‑transport headlines, including Tesla’s shrinking robotaxi fleet, internal doubts about Full Self‑Driving safety, Rivian’s efficiency‑matched R2, Ferrari’s controversial Luce launch, and Waymo’s new Ojai robotaxi service. The episode started an hour...
Software Patches From Army Hackathon Going Straight to Troops in CENTCOM
Engineers from leading defense contractors gathered at Fort Carson for the Army's first hackathon, dubbed Project Jailbreak, to integrate disparate weapons, sensor, and command‑and‑control software. Within days, several software patches were fielded to troops in CENTCOM, improving data sharing across...
AI Data Centers Now Account for 17% of Australia’s Private Investment
Australia’s AI‑driven data‑center construction surged in Q1 2026, pushing private investment up 6.5% to its highest level in years. Companies poured about A$8.7 billion (≈$6.2 billion) into servers, racks and cooling systems, nearly doubling the previous quarter’s spend. Data‑center‑related projects accounted for 17%...
Google Appears to Be Testing New Branded Search Controls in AI Max Campaigns
Google is testing a new "Branded Searches" control within its AI Max campaign type, giving advertisers the ability to dictate how brand‑related queries are handled. The setting offers three modes: serve ads on all relevant searches, manage branded traffic with...
Will AI Agents Push Enforcement Back Into the Database?
Enterprises testing AI agents that generate and run SQL are confronting a security gap at the data layer. Vendors such as CedarDB argue that traditional role‑based access control and row‑level security must be re‑embedded directly in databases rather than handled...
ON THIS DAY: In 2015, We Unboxed the Verizon LG Lancet with Windows Phone 8.1, a Phone Even I Forgot...
Verizon and LG introduced the LG Lancet in May 2015, marking LG’s return to Windows Phone hardware after several years. The budget‑friendly device retails for $120 off‑contract and ships with a 4.5‑inch TFT display, Snapdragon 410 processor, 8 GB storage and Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2....
ChatGPhish Vulnerability Turns ChatGPT Web Summaries Into a Phishing Surface
Researchers at Permiso Security have uncovered a new vulnerability dubbed ChatGPhish that tricks OpenAI's ChatGPT into rendering malicious Markdown links and images when summarizing web pages. The AI’s response renderer automatically fetches embedded images and activates clickable links, allowing attackers...
NUS Explores Generative AI in Teaching With ScholAIstic Platform
National University of Singapore is piloting ScholAIstic, a generative AI platform that lets students converse with a curriculum‑aligned chatbot while giving instructors tools to craft prompts and track engagement. The system is being tested in courses such as social work...
FAA Review: SpaceX “Starfall” Reentry Missions
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a Final Environmental Assessment for SpaceX’s Starfall reentry vehicle, evaluating impacts from launch, splashdown and recovery. The assessment clears the way for SpaceX to request a license that would permit up to ten reentries...
"A New Era of PC": Microsoft and NVIDIA Tease Major Announcement Experts Predict to Be the Fabled N1X Chip
Microsoft and NVIDIA teased a joint announcement that could unveil a new Surface device powered by NVIDIA's rumored N1X chip, a 20‑core ARM processor with integrated RTX graphics. The hint, posted on both companies' X accounts, referenced the latitude and...
Stayntouch and Ampliphi Launch Integration to Drive RevPAR Growth and Automate Revenue Management for Hotels
Stayntouch and ampliphi have launched an integration that embeds ampliphi’s AI‑driven revenue management directly into the Stayntouch cloud‑native PMS. The combined solution automatically analyzes demand, comp‑set movement and booking pace, then pushes optimized rates into the PMS in real time,...
Building Fixed HW Implementations of Neural Networks (Yale, Cornell Et Al.)
Researchers from Yale, Cornell, Boston University and NTT Research propose Physical Foundation Models—fixed hardware implementations of large‑scale neural networks. By embedding trillion‑parameter models directly into the physical substrate, such as 3D nanostructured glass, they claim orders‑of‑magnitude gains in energy efficiency,...
Atlanta-Made Robot Guard Credited in Arrest at Apartment Complex
Atlanta‑based security tech firm Undaunted has signed Columbia Residential to deploy its dog‑like robotic guards across four properties. In a recent incident, a robot named “Oppy” tracked vehicle thieves, relayed live video to police, and helped arrest two suspects in...
This App Might Be the Best Thing About Owning a Samsung Phone
Samsung’s Good Lock app, now available via the Galaxy Store and Google Play, adds a suite of 20 modular tools that turn One UI 8.5 into a near‑custom ROM. The Camera Assistant module unlocks a native 24 MP shooting mode on the...
Thinborne Is Already Talking Pixel 11 Cases, and This One Little Change Is Significant
Thinborne unveiled early prototypes of cases for Google’s upcoming Pixel 11 lineup, notable for a wider camera bar cutout. While Google has not confirmed any design changes, the expanded opening hints at the long‑rumored Pixel Glow LED light bar. The company showcased...
Another State Grapples with Debit Fee Surcharges
Louisiana lawmakers have passed a bill that would allow the state attorney general to levy civil penalties of up to $500 per violation against merchants who add surcharges to debit card purchases. The measure also mandates a toll‑free hotline and...
New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)
The FDA announced that it has achieved its Year 1 objectives for New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), dramatically reducing reliance on animal testing in drug development. By focusing first on monoclonal antibodies, the agency outlined a step‑wise roadmap that validates AI‑driven models,...
Coalition for Health AI Unveils Governance Playbook for Systems
The Coalition for Health AI released a governance playbook outlining eight essential elements for health‑system AI oversight, including policy, structure, resources, lifecycle management, risk assessment, data stewardship, third‑party oversight, and education. The guidance aims to translate good intentions into measurable,...
Hong Kong Productivity Council Partners With Schools to Expand AI Education
Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) has forged partnerships with eight academic organisations to roll out AI education across more than 500 primary and secondary schools. The "AI Empowerment: Future Skills" programme, built on HKPC’s "AI for All" training, delivered over...
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8: Technical Architecture, Capabilities and Implications for Healthcare Technology
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28 2026, a frontier AI model built on a $65 billion Series H round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $965 billion and drives annualized revenue past $47 billion. The model delivers higher tool‑mediated reasoning (57.9%) and computer‑use scores (83.4%),...
US States Deepen Mobile ID Rollouts as Focus Shifts to Verification and Privacy
Mobile driver’s licenses are moving from pilot projects to core identity infrastructure across the United States. Arkansas has become the latest state to add its licenses to Apple Wallet, joining earlier Google and Samsung Wallet support. Illinois, Connecticut, and Arizona...
One Company Reportedly Spent $500 Million on Claude in One Month After Failing to Cap AI Usage
An unnamed firm allegedly burned through $500 million in a single month after failing to cap usage of Anthropic’s Claude model. The incident underscores a broader industry trend where flat‑rate AI contracts mask soaring per‑request costs, prompting executives like Microsoft’s and...