There are four virus strains known to cause Ebola disease in humans, and three have caused large outbreaks (Zaire, Sudan, and Bundibugyo). The most common strain is Zaire, for which treatments and vaccines have been developed. The viruses spill over from animals, including non-human primates and bats, and cause severe hemorrhagic fever, marked by diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. Person-to-person spread occurs via contact with bodily fluids and symptoms can develop between two and 21 days—though most often eight to 10 days—after an exposure.

There are over a thousand different Pokémon, and not all of them are bangers. Some of them have designs that might make you recoil, while others are just plain uninteresting. How often do you think about, say, Dewpider? or Seaking? Have you considered the humble Taillow lately? Well, let’s all stop being such judgmental snobs, because it turns out every…

The iPhone 18 Pro was already shaping up to be a meaningful upgrade thanks to Apple's in-house C2 modem, which promises faster 5G, mmWave support, and better battery life. But a new report just surfaced another perk that nobody was really talking about, and it might be the most underrated reason to upgrade this fall. A privacy feature most iPhone users can't actually use yet…

Altman and Brockman were not present when the verdict came in, the NYT reported. However, there were “a few smiles from the OpenAI side of the room,” with OpenAI attorney William Savitt wearing “a wide grin,” the NYT reported. Savitt spent days grilling Musk on the stand, seemingly taking advantage of his prior experience as Musk’s lawyer to get under Musk’s skin.

On Saturday, I went to the Music of Square Enix orchestra concert in Seattle as a capper on an extremely good week-long vacation. The concert was pretty good, and it was mainly because they played “Megalomania” from Live A Live as the capper to the first half of it, and also because I got to get pretend-mad that there was no…

Back in March, before the "madness" was over, we told you that RCS Universal Profile 4.0 had been introduced. RCS, as you probably know, stands for Rich Communication Services, and is the next generation of messaging that replaces SMS (Short Message Service). What RCS does that SMS doesn't RCS runs over cellular networks and Wi-Fi, and if you've ever noticed the poor quality of images and video that you've received via MMS and SMS, you will appreciate the higher quality of the photography sent using RCS.

“We were a relatively loud voice on MSR, because we just saw a program and a capability that could be solved,” Beck said in his recent interview with Ars. “The cost estimates for MSR, and all the rest of it, was just nuts. I think anybody knows that I have a bit of a soft spot for planetary sciences. So with MSR, I just saw a whole bunch of Nobel Prizes sitting on the surface there, and it was just criminal not to bring them home.

When you imagine Palestine, what does it look like in your mind? Does it look like the photographs we see in the news all the time? Do you see abandoned buildings and piles of rubble? Rocky, barren land? Exhausted individuals standing in long lines for humanitarian aid? The injured, the sick? The dead?   Or could you imagine a different Palestine, one with lush gardens and flowering trees?

Gaming phones were supposed to be dying out. Then RedMagic showed up with an 8,000 mAh battery, an overclocked Snapdragon, and a transparent back that makes every other flagship look boring. What RedMagic just announced The RedMagic 11S Pro series is now official in China, and the spec sheet is wild in the best way possible. The launch lands on the brand's eighth anniversary, and according to the official press release, it is a mid-gen refresh of last year's RedMagic 11 Pro, which we called one of the coolest phones we've ever tested, both literally and metaphorically.There are three variants in play.

A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the Barkindji language) in a mound of shells. Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what’s now New South Wales, Australia. They found that the Barkindji ancestors had buried the dingo with the same care and ceremony as any beloved human member of the community and looked after the grave for centuries.

Tom Kane, a prolific voice actor in video games and animation, has died at 64. Galactic Productions, a talent agency that helps book actors and more for convention appearances, posted about Kane’s passing on its Facebook page with a tribute to his work, though it doesn’t get into specifics about his passing. Kane was publicly dealing with health troubles following a stroke in 2020, which left him unable to speak, leading to his retirement from voice acting.

Apple just made it official. The Cupertino company sent media invites today, formally confirming that WWDC 2026 kicks off Monday, June 8, with the keynote streaming at 10 a.m. PDT. Based on everything leaking out of Cupertino lately, this is the most loaded WWDC in years. What Apple just confirmed According to Apple's official press release, the event runs June 8 through 12, with the keynote and Platforms State of the Union happening on day one.

BMW M’s next major work will be next year’s all-electric quad-motor M3, derived from the Neue Klasse i3. And we can’t imagine there’s a three-pedal version of that one in the works, sadly. The M3 I really want In BMW’s briefing materials for the M3 CS Handschalter, it notes that the 3.0 L S58 engine is also used, in modified form, in the BMW M4 GT3 Evo that won the Rolex 24 at Daytona this year.

David “D4vd” Burke was arrested in April in the investigation of the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a California teen whose body was found in an impounded Tesla belonging to the pop singer back in September. Burke’s music has been featured in projects like Fortnite, and as the case goes to trial in June, companies that collaborated with the singer are figuring out how to handle having his music in said projects.

Elon Musk suffered the worst defeat possible in his legal battle against OpenAI as a federal jury and a judge ruled he waited too long to bring his claims against the AI startup and its top executives, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. The jury’s decision was a nonbinding recommendation sent to US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, though she immediately accepted it on Monday as her own, making it final.

Titanium, though it felt great, led to overheating problems for the iPhone. Apple had to switch to aluminum with the iPhone 17 to mitigate that problem, but that meant that the phones now dented very easily from the smallest of drops. A solution is in the works Fortunately, the company is reportedly actively looking for a solution instead of ignoring the issue.

The monthly price of PS Plus Essential has been $10 for a long time, but no longer. Sony announced it’s going up to $11 a month due to “ongoing market conditions.” The price hikes follow recent increases to PS5 console prices as AI-fueled part shortages drive up costs. “Starting May 20, PlayStation Plus prices for new customers will increase in select regions.

When Windows 11 launched in 2021, we mostly liked its refreshed look—the rounded corners and menus with just a hint of translucency were a nice change from the flat colors and hard corners of the Windows 8/10 era. But its reformulated taskbar and Start menu came with a number of functional regressions from the versions in Windows 10. Some of these were addressed quickly; others continue to linger.

The Galaxy S FE series is the perfect choice if you want flagship specs at a way more budget-friendly price. And right now, you can score a brand-new Galaxy S25 FE at an even lower cost—if you hurry up, that is.Amazon is offering a hefty $150 discount on the model with 128GB of storage, dropping the one in Navy to just under $500.

It’s starting to feel like a new Sony lawsuit is dropping every other week. The latest is a class action complaint filed against PlayStation 5 maker Sony in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. It accuses the company of “retention of a substantial windfall generated by unlawful tariffs imposed by the federal government under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.”

In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane named Peter Aaby, had spent nearly two decades collecting data on 100,000 people living in the mud brick homes of the West African country’s capital. Aaby and his partner, Christine Stabell Benn, believed that the years of research in the impoverished country had yielded a major discovery about vaccines—and what they described as “non-specific effects”: The measles and tuberculosis vaccines, which were derived from live, weakened viruses and bacteria, they said, boosted child survival beyond protecting against those particular pathogens.

The new Galaxy S26 Ultra aims to take the top spot in the camera space with faster apertures for the main and telephoto cameras. However, Samsung has not made any upgrades to the hardware beyond that, and most importantly, it hasn't upgraded the sensor sizes, probably the most decisive factor for image quality. In comparison, we have camera masters Sony with the latest Xperia 1 VIII.

High-fidelity fan videos gesturing at what a Final Fantasy VI remake could look like are nothing new. What is new is that generative AI has made it easier than ever to bring those fever dreams to life and make them spread like wildfire across people’s feeds. The latest example imagines the classic SNES RPG in the style of the recent…

What my mom lacks in healthy legs, she makes up for in a Claude Pro subscription. Having needled her repeatedly over the past couple years about AI’s environmental, political, and economic implications, I brushed all that aside on a recent Sunday and drove to her house. After a little tibia talk, I opened her computer and began emitting vibes. I’d like to create a communally shared app that gathers and shares information related to how much time and energy we devote to fighting burdensome administrative tasks, bureaucratic sludge, Kafka-esque unsubscribe mazes, byzantine insurance portals, wrongful charges, denied claims, confusing membership plans, and the like.

Apple is still struggling to get Apple Intelligence up to the levels that were promised back in 2024. We’re finally going to see some progress next month with the announcement of the new Siri app for iPhone, but even then Siri will be in Beta according to one report.Apple insider Mark Gurman believes that Apple Intelligence is two or three years behind its competitors.

We’ve already had at least one college graduation speaker’s comments about the AI revolution be met with roaring boos from the crowd this month. Now famous ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has done it as well, getting drowned out by recent college graduates as he tries to lecture them on the promise of artificial intelligence.  The gist of Schmidt’s speech, delivered at the University of Arizona’s spring semester graduation on Sunday, was that while the fear of AI replacing jobs and threatening the environment is “rational,” if you get on board with it and help “shape” it, you’ll be one of the winners and set yourself up for success in the future. 

The note from the communications team then, quite remarkably, lists some stats in an attempt to paint the launch in a positive light, as opposed the retail bin-fire it seemingly was: “We have received millions of clicks on our website. This new collaboration is literally making social media explode, with over 6 billion views within one week; by now, it is already 11 billion.

Last year, we traveled to the future with the Xiaomi concept phone that you see in the thumbnail picture above. It is what it appears to be – a huge camera system that's attached to a phone and offers physically larger sensors and optics. Software tricks like computational photography are great but can only do so much. Big sensors and big elements in a lens are still unsurpassed in terms of sheer quality.

There’s another world where Grand Theft Auto 6 has already been out for nearly a year. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick referenced that alternate timeline in a recent interview looking back at his career, in which he confirmed that Rockstar Games’ latest sequel was at one point supposed to come out 18 months before its current release date. “I think we’re about 18 months behind the original date,” he told podcaster David Senra in a video published over the weekend.

Google I/O is imminent. This is the annual developer event and product showcase where Google shows off all the shiny new updates to its Android operating system and other platforms, as well as new features and improvements to its artificial intelligence models. The big announcements at Google I/O usually come in the form of a livestreamed keynote event at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, hosted by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

McLaren has officially pulled the covers off the new MCL-HY LMDh sports prototype racer. As a result, the machine set to carry the British marque back to the top class of endurance racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans from 2027. However, the story does not stop there. Alongside the race car, McLaren has also unveiled the ultra-exclusive MCL-HY GTR.

Do you like the 12.1-inch Lenovo Idea Tab Plus (especially at its massive new discount) but wish you could get something more powerful and more compact at an only slightly higher price right now? That may sound like a far too specific wish to ever come true, but the Lenovo Yoga Tab perfectly fits two of those three conditions, with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor under the hood and an 11.1-inch screen also in tow, while costing $429.99 at the time of this writing.

Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch. Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when she caught the virus, but she remembers it well—along with the oven mitts she was made to wear to stop herself scratching. She also recalls being taken to hang out with her cousin while covered in blisters, in the hopes of deliberately infecting them.

Time for something new This is what the phone would look like with a case on. | Image by SammyGuru Back to the point, though: it seems that the Galaxy A27 will surely ditch the waterdrop notch on its panel. Instead, the selfie camera might be housed in a much more refined punch-hole cutout. We first saw this in several leaked renders, but now, there are fresh pictures of the phone with a case on.

A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient’s own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results from two individuals hint at its promise for long-term control of the virus. As part of a clinical trial, scientists took people’s own immune cells and reprogrammed them in a lab to recognize and attack HIV in the body. After a single infusion of the modified cells, two individuals with HIV now have undetectable levels of the virus—one for nearly two years and the other for almost a year.

Following up a game as lauded as Disco Elysium would be an unenviable task for any developer, but especially one as fractured as ZA/UM. With many of the key creative minds behind the detective RPG separated from the studio following an ugly, and very public, legal dispute, it's up to those left behind to pick up the pieces. That's a lot of baggage to carry going into a brand-new, albeit familiar, game, so it's not surprising how ZA/UM has tried to distance itself from too many comparisons with its previous hit.

If you’ve been putting effort into creating great content but still struggling to rank higher on Google, the problem might not be what you’re writing. It could be who Google thinks is writing it. That’s where Author SEO comes in. It’s the practice of optimizing your author profile so that search engines can recognize the real person behind your content, including your qualifications, your experience, and your credibility.

When it comes to budget phones, a lower price doesn't always mean the device is actually good value. However, the Galaxy A17 doesn't really fall into that category. This is one of the few ultra-affordable Android options with an AMOLED display and six years of software support. And yet, some users may feel like paying $200 for this device is a bit much.

The owner of a company that trained paramilitary Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents testified that he was involved in at least four lethal shootings, according to a 2021 deposition related to a lawsuit reviewed by WIRED. David S. Norman, the founder and proprietor of law enforcement training firm TruKinetics LLC, served as a Phoenix Police officer from the late 1990s until his retirement in 2020.

If you're a bargain hunter who was waiting for the perfect deal on a decent Android tablet to drop about a month and a half ago, your world probably fell apart when Lenovo increased the list prices of all its feature-packed slates and then Samsung did the same thing with the likes of the Galaxy Tab S11, Tab S10 FE, and Tab S10 Lite.

With more than a decade of experience using smartphones, I have always advised everyone to download and install software updates as soon as they become available. However, I've begun to doubt that advice after experiencing various issues following recent updates on different smartphone brands. Pixel phones and their long list of problems If you have been following my recent coverage on our website, you might be aware that Pixel phones have become a total mess recently.

One of the best Pixel 9 Pro XL promos has quietly returned to Amazon, making  this  flagship phone too good to ignore. Once again, you can grab this device for just under $700.  Sure, I'm talking about the 128GB variant here, which may not be enough for every user. But the newer Pixel 10 Pro XL is now selling at its full MSRP, so if you're looking to save, its predecessor is definitely the one to get.

In case you haven't noticed, music streamer Spotify has recently changed its icon. The one that you're probably familiar with showed three curved black lines inside a green circle. Those black lines represented radio waves and the image, created in 2013, was supposed to represent music streaming and connectivity. Spotify makes an unpopular change to its icon However, the largest music streamer in the world, (with over 760 million monthly active users) and in the U.S., is about to celebrate its 20th birthday.

Samsung's clamshell foldable may have run its course, with a new report suggesting that the rumored Galaxy Z Flip 8 could be the last of its kind. Apparently, the South Korean giant has several reasons to discontinue the lineup. No signs of a Flip 9 The Flip 8 might be Samsung's last clamshell phone. | Image by Instant Digital According to a machine-translated post by a Weibo tipster, Samsung doesn't appear to be actively developing the Flip 9.

Two years after first promising a long-awaited overhaul for Siri, Apple is finally poised to deliver the upgrade next month at WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2026. The new Siri will feature a dedicated app — similar to rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT — and will, in some areas, actually excel more than any other AI app on the market.In his newsletter Power On, Apple insider Mark Gurman has provided detailed explanations about how the new Siri app is going to function, how it lags behind, and how it leaves competitors in the dust.

Comcast, the parent company of Xfinity, is known mostly for its cable and internet service. In April 2017, the company started Xfinity Mobile, an MVNO that uses Verizon's 4G and 5G signals. Like other cable-owned MVNOs, Xfinity also relies on its own large network of home and business hotspots. Comcast is now focusing on its Xfinity Mobile wireless business Comcast is now focusing on wireless according to the company's CEO of the Connectivity & Platforms unit, Steve Croney.

When Konami dropped a Super Bomberman Collection earlier this year, I was hoping this was just a gateway to “the real stuff.” Make no mistake, the Super Bomberman series is great, the best party games the 32-bit era had to offer. But slide one generation forward and you’ll land on something truly magical and still unreplaced. A Bomberman made before kinks of 3D mascot games were figured out, and all the more beautiful for it.

As I recently shared, Amazon has slashed $100 off the 11-inch iPad Pro (M5) with 256GB of storage, making it a tempting choice for those after high-end performance and Apple’s stunning Tandem OLED display. But if you don’t crave the latest Apple silicon and don’t mind watching your favorite series on an LCD panel, I believe you’ll appreciate Amazon’s offer on the latest M4-powered iPad Air even more.The retailer is currently selling the 13-inch model with 128GB of storage for $53 off, allowing you to snag the Wi-Fi-only variant in Blue for less than $747.

Ghost of Yōtei Legends, the multiplayer co-op mode for Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Yōtei, launched earlier this year on March 10 and received its first major content expansion, Raid mode, on April 10. However, the Raid update wasn’t just Ghost of Yōtei Legends’ first expansion; it was also its last, as Sucker Punch has now confirmed that no further “major” updates are planned for the co-op mode.

Though most of Apple Intelligence still lags far behind rival offerings like Gemini, Apple is proud of its Genmoji feature. According to a new report, Genmoji will be getting a small quality-of-life improvement this year with iOS 27, which will release fully to the public alongside the launch of the iPhone 18 Pro models and the foldable iPhone Ultra. A recap on Genmoji…