When you're building on a tight budget, it's easy to over-optimize the wrong thing. Priya Sathy shares why system design and data access often matter more than model selection when building AI apps. #ai #startup #cloudcomputing #developers #datadriven

The sketch of a young girl, in the red chalk characteristic of Manet’s 1860s life studies, is thought to be linked to several of the artist’s paintings

A remarkably well-preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is reshaping scientists’ understanding of mammal evolution during the age of dinosaurs. The new species, described today in the journal Nature, reveals that a group of extinct mammals known as zhelestids were not close relatives of modern placental mammals as many researchers thought for decades. Instead, they […] The post New Gobi Desert Fossil Rewrites a Chapter of Mammal Evolution appeared first on Good News Network.

Two aerospace companies are competing to create the lunar lander NASA uses when it returns humans to the moon's surface. But to reach our lunar companion, a spacecraft will first have to get to Earth orbit

Apple iOS has a lot going for it. The fluid performance, the tight integration of hardware and software, and the overall premium build quality of iPhones have convinced many Android users to make the switch to iPhone. #Android #iPhone #AndroidToiPhone Voiceover By: Tim Bensch Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Engadget Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/engadget Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/engadget Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/engadget Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@engadget The Engadget Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engadget-podcast/id1142790530?mt=2 More about Engadget Audio: https://www.engadget.com/podcasts/ Visit Official Engadget Website http://www.engadget.com Read Full Article: https://www.engadget.com/2222494/downsides-switching-from-android-to-iphone/

Google really brought its A-game last year with the Pixel Watch 4, improving the smartwatch’s hardware in various ways to make it competitive with Apple Watches. The new Pixel Watch 5, announced together with the Pixel 11 series phones ahead of today’s Made for Google event, sticks to the same round-screen design and instead focuses on its health, fitness, and wellbeing functionalities aided by Google’s Gemini AI. Aside from new colors (Canyon, Olive, Fog, and Obsidian) and a new “Weave” watch face, the Pixel Watch 5 looks identical to the Pixel Watch 4. It comes in the same 41mm and 45mm sizes and has the same 3,000-nit brightness and up to 40-hour battery life. It’s still a classy-looking smartwatch, in my opinion. Google’s new smartwatch has mostly under-the-hood updates. For full specs, pricing, and our first impressions tap our link in bio. Reporter: Raymond Wong Video: Raymond Wong & Adriano Contreras #google #pixelwatch #smartwatch #gadget #wearable We come from the future. https://gizmodo.com Follow us. https://twitter.com/gizmodo https://instagram.com/gizmodo https://facebook.com/gizmodo

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CRM Sales Platforms. Learn how AI-powered capabilities in Dynamics 365 are helping sales teams move from systems of record to systems of action. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CRM Sales Platforms for the sixteenth consecutive year appeared first on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog.

Recent excavations at the Bath Assembly Rooms in England revealed Roman-era coins, roof tiles, pottery, glassware, a network of ditches and a fragment of a military helmet

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]

Employees at a food bank in Phoenix were left scratching their heads when they saw an entire Uhaul truck of donated diapers arrive at their location, knowing that a middle-schooler was behind the enormous load. It was the collected proceeds of 12-year-old Sloan’s 5th annual “Diaper Drive,” an event she has been organizing since she […] The post 12-yo’s Annual ‘Diaper Drive’ Delivers 30,000 Diapers Off at Arizona Food Bank appeared first on Good News Network.

Not all researchers are convinced that the brain changes detected via MRI are robust enough to become a diagnostic tool. But the findings could help researchers better understand the mechanisms that drive the neurodegenerative disease

Building an app is one challenge. Scaling it 10x is another. Aditya Badmaraju shares how to think about growth from day one so your architecture can evolve alongside your application. #cloudcomputing #azuresql #developers #architecture #programming

Google’s book-style foldable, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, is still very expensive, but there are some upgrades that make it better than its predecessor. It comes in just two colors: Olive and Obsidian. Durability matters a lot for foldables, so Google made the back out of a new glass composite that it claims is nearly impossible to break. There’s a new gearless hinge that protects the inner screen, which, by the way, also has a reduced crease. For the full details on the new phone, pricing, and our first impressions, tap our link in bio. Reporter: Raymond Wong Video: Raymond Wong & Adriano Contreras #google #googlepixel #pixel11 #mobile #gadget We come from the future. https://gizmodo.com Follow us. https://twitter.com/gizmodo https://instagram.com/gizmodo https://facebook.com/gizmodo

Excavations in central Paris have turned up a stone wall that may have finally settled the debate regarding the true origins of the city. City officials described themselves as feeling “dizzy” looking down onto what is essentially Paris’ zero point in time, made all the more dramatic as it still bore the scars of Julius […] The post This Stone Wall Seems to Have Finally Settled Debate About The Town That Became Paris appeared first on Good News Network.

Let's take a look under the hood for all the awesome stats of the Google Pixel 11, including the pricing of the base version of the smartphone! #GooglePixel #GooglePixel11 #Preview Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Engadget Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/engadget Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/engadget Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/engadget Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@engadget The Engadget Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engadget-podcast/id1142790530?mt=2 More about Engadget Audio: https://www.engadget.com/podcasts/ Read more: http://www.engadget.com

The ancestors of the giant isopod Bathynomus jamesi—a seafloor-dwelling creature that resembles a huge pill bug—acquired the snippet of DNA from bacteria more than 16 million years ago, according to a new study. The gene helps the animal slow its metabolism

Data is everywhere but getting value from it is another story. Shireesh Thota explains how bringing data together, adding context, and layering on AI can help organizations turn information into intelligence. #ai #data #microsoftfabric #developers #cloudcomputing

  This is a typical image of the south of France; now the home to an assortment very a-typical European fruit: the banana, the papaya, and the mango. “I’m probably the only papaya grower in France!” says Dominique Berdin, laughing to the national station France24, when they visited her tropical fruit growing operation in the […] The post Resilient French Farmers Use Warming Climate to Grow the Country’s Own Tropical Fruit appeared first on Good News Network.

A new exhibition at the Museum at FIT in New York City showcases more than 170 objects that trace the often-unexpected relationship between dolls and fashion

In 2026, many tech experts agree that OLED TVs are among the best you can buy. #OLED #TVs #OLEDTV Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Engadget Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/engadget Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/engadget Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/engadget Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@engadget The Engadget Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engadget-podcast/id1142790530?mt=2 More about Engadget Audio: https://www.engadget.com/podcasts/ Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2213634/are-oled-tvs-still-worth-price-2026/

Mark Russinovich reveals how he used AI-assisted coding to bring ZoomIt, his essential Sysinternals presentation tool, from Windows to macOS in just two days. Explore ZoomIt for Mac on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/ZoomitForMac Download ZoomIt from Microsoft Sysinternals: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit

Some of the best forest and mountain scenery Vietnam has to offer will now include a special conservation reserve to protect one of the world’s most-endangered primates. Around 7,500 acres of karst limestone escarpments and pristine forests are set to make up the Kim Bang Delacour’s Langur Habitat Conservation Area. Named after the French biologist […] The post Vietnam Swiftly Protects Forests Containing the Last of the World’s Most-Endangered Monkey appeared first on Good News Network.

The QDK is a powerful open-source platform for modern quantum development and building quantum applications, with AI-powered tools fully integrated into VS Code and GitHub Copilot.
 
 Experience flexible quantum programming: compose algorithms interchangeably across Q#, Python, OpenQASM, Qiskit, and Cirq, then run your code anywhere with QIR support. Agentic AI tools work across quantum languages right where you code, while integrated simulation and resource estimation tools help you iterate quickly.
 
 From first steps to end-to-end quantum solutions, the QDK supports every stage: learning, building, testing, and execution.
 
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The new discoveries emphasize that scientists have a lot left to learn about insect diversity, even in areas with many observations

Mark Russinovich reveals how he used AI-assisted coding to bring ZoomIt, his essential Sysinternals presentation tool, from Windows to macOS in just two days. He traces ZoomIt's origins, explores its zooming, annotation, screen capture, recording, and demo typing capabilities, and explains how AI translated decades of Windows functionality to the Mac platform. The walkthrough culminates in a live demonstration of Demo Mirror, a new feature that lets presenters share a screen or selected window without leaving PowerPoint Presenter View. Watch to see how agentic coding transformed an ambitious cross-platform port into a working, open-source release.
 
 Explore ZoomIt for Mac on GitHub:
 https://github.com/microsoft/ZoomitForMac
 
 Download ZoomIt from Microsoft Sysinternals:
 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit
 
 Chapters:
 0:00 The Story Behind ZoomIt
 3:16 Why ZoomIt Came to Mac
 4:21 Building ZoomIt with AI
 7:03 ZoomIt for Mac Demo
 9:16 Introducing Demo Mirror

In a win for pollinator conservation, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have identified chemical compounds that can safely repel honey bees from pesticide-treated crops. The research offers a potential solution to one of agriculture’s most urgent challenges: pesticides leading to the ongoing decline of honey bees. Biologist Anandasankar Ray, an expert on insect […] The post CA Researchers Identify Odors That Repel Honeybees From Pesticides appeared first on Good News Network.

Recently uncovered documents about the timing of Geli Raubal’s death cast new doubt on the Nazi leader’s alibi, which had been considered reasonably sound for nearly a century

What database does ChatGPT use to store conversation history? Azure Cosmos DB — it works with any data via the document model, at the scale of hundreds of millions of users. Full episode: https://youtu.be/se5ArmOUr8c #ChatGPT #AzureCosmosDB #GenerativeAI

Supplier Engagement, now in public preview for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, helps organizations streamline supplier onboarding, lifecycle management, and collaboration from a centralized workspace. Built on Microsoft Power Platform, it provides trusted supplier data, global vendor management, and self-service supplier experiences while keeping transactions connected to ERP processes. The post Supplier Engagement in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is now available in public preview appeared first on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog.

The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) announced a historic $131.5 million enforcement action against DoorDash for systematic violations of the local Delivery Worker Laws. The settlement will place more than $115 million directly into the pockets of delivery workers and pay for $16 million in civil penalties and costs. More […] The post New York City Collects $131 Million From DoorDash for Delivery Workers Unfairly Paid After $13 Billion Profit appeared first on Good News Network.

Welcome to your weekly roundup of some Microsoft news in 2 minutes. The gist: Microsoft shipped an agent preview inside Visual Studio built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers Copilot CLI, plus Foundry model updates and MCP C# SDK 2.0. Here's the Microsoft Developer news worth paying attention to this week in The Upload. Links for more: https://aka.ms/devblogs.microsoft.com/ai https://aka.ms/devblogs_visual_studio_update https://aka.ms/devblogs_foundry_update In this episode: → Visual Studio agent preview — built on the GitHub Copilot SDK behind Copilot CLI, with built-in Azure and .NET skills authored by Microsoft engineering teams. Designed for larger tasks with less back-and-forth. → Why Copilot is converging on one agent platform across Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub, and the CLI — a consistent agent experience on every surface. → Microsoft Foundry updates — [MODEL NAME: TBD] image generation, [MODEL NAME: TBD] transcription, more model options, and expanded tooling for agent development. → Why the advantage is shifting from access to a model to access to a complete AI platform. → MCP C# SDK 2.0 — the latest MCP spec, stateless-first communication, and improved interoperability. → Why MCP is becoming the integration layer for AI agents the way APIs were for everything before. 📺 Subscribe for a new Upload every week.

Bridges, mountains, caves and rock formations that seem impossible to explain become magnets for folklore

Watch what happens when we ask Samsung’s Photo Assist to replace the Galaxy Z Fold 8 in the image with an iPhone. Reporter: Raymond Wong Video: Adriano Contreras #samsung #samsunggalaxy #zfold8 #iphone #artificialintelligence We come from the future. https://gizmodo.com Follow us. https://twitter.com/gizmodo https://instagram.com/gizmodo https://facebook.com/gizmodo

Phil Knight, who co-founded Nike alongside his former track coach at the University of Oregon (Bill Bowerman), has sprinted back to his alma mater with a huge philanthropic gift. And, when Mr. Knight called up the school president earlier in September, it’s fair to say he left a few jaws needing to be picked up […] The post Nike Founder Phil Knight Gives Away a Billion Dollars – the Largest Single Donation to a Public University appeared first on Good News Network.

Governance in Dynamics 365 Customer Service helps organizations evaluate outbound emails and attachments against business-defined policies before delivery, reducing risk and ensuring compliant customer communications. The post Governance in the Quality Management agent is now generally available appeared first on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog.

GitHub Copilot and Azure are helping organizations modernize legacy applications, reduce technical debt, and prepare for AI innovation. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Your data is the ultimate target — and Microsoft Purview delivers one Zero Trust control set for it. For unstructured data in Microsoft 365, Purview identifies sensitive data and applies sensitivity labels that drive encryption, access controls, and DLP. For structured data across Microsoft Fabric and other clouds, the same labels extend that protection intent to data stores — so your data stays protected wherever it's used, including AI workloads. ▶ Full video: https://youtu.be/OnlN-2Q5QsE ▶ Go Zero Trust (free workshops): https://aka.ms/GoZeroTrust #Shorts #MicrosoftPurview #DataSecurity #ZeroTrust

Two olive ridley turtles were found laying eggs on beaches in Southern California in September. In the Pacific Ocean, these reptiles normally nest farther south, often in Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama

Want to run a fully managed SQL Server in Azure without paying a cent? The Azure SQL Managed Instance free offer gives you just that. With 720 vCore hours of compute, 64 GB of storage you can have up to 500 databases for free for 12 months. Strahinja will show how to create a free SQL Managed Instance from the Azure portal, walk through what the free offer actually covers, and connect to it so you can start testing real workloads today. ✅ Chapters: 0:40 What is the free offer for Azure SQL Managed Instance 1:19 Details of what exactly you get for free 2:00 How long you can run it and how start/stop works 3:38 Limitations in the offer 4:05 Free and generous but not recommended for production 5:15 What's not supported 5:35 Expiration and upgrade process 6:02 Demo - how to get started 7:30 Demo - once it is created 8:10 Demo - how to connect with public endpoint 9:00 Demo - how to do a native restore into Azure SQL Managed Instance 10:15 Demo - how the restore works 10:40 What prerequisites do you have to have to get a free Azure SQL Managed Instance 11:48 Demo - how to monitor your free credits 12:35 Demo - how to switch to the paid tier 13:40 Demo - tips and tricks for getting started ✅ Resources: Create Free Azure SQL Managed Instance: aka.ms/create-free-sqlmi-de Learn more: aka.ms/freesqlmi 📌 Let's connect: Strahinja Rodic - https://www.linkedin.com/in/strahinjarodic/, @Strale15 on X Twitter - Anna Hoffman, https://twitter.com/AnalyticAnna Twitter - AzureSQL, https://aka.ms/azuresqltw 🔴 Watch even more Data Exposed episodes: https://aka.ms/dataexposedyt 🔔 Subscribe to our channels for even more SQL tips: Microsoft Azure SQL: https://aka.ms/msazuresqlyt Microsoft SQL Server: https://aka.ms/mssqlserveryt Microsoft Developer: https://aka.ms/microsoftdeveloperyt #AzureSQL #SQL #LearnSQL

Geophysical surveys provide new evidence for a theory that the Egyptian pharaoh was interred in the outer rooms of an existing burial complex. Researchers are trying to get approval to investigate for themselves

Your Android phone can be the home to your car keys in Google Wallet, but here's everything you need to know before setting up this feature with a compatible car. #CarKey #Android #AndroidPhone Voiceover By: Tim Bensch Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Engadget Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/engadget Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/engadget Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/engadget Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@engadget The Engadget Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engadget-podcast/id1142790530?mt=2 More about Engadget Audio: https://www.engadget.com/podcasts/ Visit Official Engadget Website https://www.engadget.com Read Full Article: https://www.engadget.com/2182547/how-to-store-car-keys-on-android-phone/

At Galaxy Unpacked in London last month, Samsung had a prototype of its AI home companion concept device, 'Project Luna'. For more on Samsung and other devices showcased at Galaxy Unpacked, visit our link in bio. Reporter: Raymond Wong Video: Adriano Contreras #samsung #projectluna #smarthome #gadget #artificialintelligence We come from the future. https://gizmodo.com Follow us. https://twitter.com/gizmodo https://instagram.com/gizmodo https://facebook.com/gizmodo

In a converted machine shop in southeastern San Diego, men who spent decades in prison are learning critical trade skills just weeks out of incarceration thanks to an inspirational nonprofit. Rise Up Industries has spent over a decade helping men metaphorically exchange their felony records into machinist certifications, joining a paid apprenticeship program with therapy […] The post Nonprofit Puts Ex-Cons to Work with Paid Apprenticeships as Machinists appeared first on Good News Network.

Azure Files delivers modern, cloud-native file storage for organizations that need fast, secure, and simple access to data across applications, teams, and AI-powered environments. Built directly into Azure, Azure Files provides fully managed SMB and NFS file shares with enterprise-grade reliability, global availability, and low-latency access. See how organizations use Azure Files to modernize Windows applications, accelerate Azure Virtual Desktop deployments, support cloud-native workloads, simplify hybrid file storage, and serving shared datasets to AI applications at scale. Learn how built-in migration, security, identity, and data protection capabilities help reduce infrastructure management overhead while enabling secure collaboration and business resiliency. Discover how Azure Files helps organizations migrate, modernize, and optimize file-based workloads for the cloud. Questions or feedback? Connect with the Azure Files team at azurefiles@microsoft.com. #AzureFiles #AzureFileSync #MicrosoftAzure

The East African nation is home to a number of conservation parks where its impressive animals roam free

AI resources — models, agents, APIs, data pipelines, and compute — are part of your Zero Trust architecture, and if compromised they can leak data, generate malicious outputs, or enable lateral movement. Protection means securing the resources themselves, not just access to them, by assessing prompts and outputs with Microsoft Foundry Prompt Shields and runtime protections. ▶ Full video: https://youtu.be/OnlN-2Q5QsE ▶ Go Zero Trust (free workshops): https://aka.ms/GoZeroTrust #Shorts #AISecurity #ZeroTrust #MicrosoftFoundry

1.2 miles from the nearest car park, down a track which few hikers ply, in a national park few will have the opportunity to visit, a lonely camera livestreams the comings and goings of a desert waterhole to the world. For the dingoes, wallabies, frogs, occasional feral cat, and even a wedge-tailed eagle who have […] The post Australian Biologists Livestream A Remote Desert Waterhole and All its Wild Visitors appeared first on Good News Network.

Over the past few centuries, inventors have tweaked the design of the receptacles here and there, but overall, not much has changed about the dependable medical supply

In this demo, Mine Starks, Principal Quantum Software Engineer at Microsoft, showcases the QDK learning experience in VS Code. Discover how guided lessons, hands-on coding exercises, and AI-powered assistance from GitHub Copilot help you learn quantum computing from the ground up, all within your development environment.
 
 Start with linear algebra fundamentals, progress through qubits and quantum gates, and explore advanced algorithms such as Shor's algorithm.
 
 Topics Covered:
 - Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK)
 - Q# programming
 - GitHub Copilot Learning Experience
 - Quantum Computing Fundamentals
 - AI-Assisted Learning
 
 Subscribe for more QDK tutorials, Microsoft Quantum updates, quantum computing walkthroughs, Q# guides, QDK Chemistry content, and developer-focused learning resources from the Microsoft Quantum team.
 
 🔗 Microsoft Quantum: https://quantum.microsoft.com/
 🔗 Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK): https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/quantum/
 🔗 Microsoft Quantum Blogposts: https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/insights/blogs
 
 Chapters:
 0:00 Introduction to the Quantum Development Kit
 0:16 Introduction to the QDK Learning Experience
 0:39 Setup and Configuration in VS Code
 1:25 Start Learning
 2:18 First Lesson - Flip a Qubit
 2:50 QDK Learning Agent
 3:20 Learning Grover's Search Algorithm
 4:30 Conclusion

Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s Turpentine podcast and OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN. Lightspeed Venture Partners just made its own notable hire in that vein, bringing on Claire Zau, a seed investor with a major following on Instagram and […]