A few months ago, a relatively unknown tipster on Weibo claimed that the Huawei Mate XT2 will debut in October. Now, the reliable Digital Chat Station has reported that the next-gen triple foldable is coming in the second half of this year – and that it won’t be alone. The new foldables will likely feature the Kirin 9050 Pro chipset...
Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Aïnouz is a keen collaborator. He doesn’t write his own screenplays and was intrigued by Efthimis Filippou’s modern reimagining of Marco Bellocchio’s Fists in the Pocket as he eyed up making a leap to satire. Filippou is best known for his work with Yorgos Lanthimos, and with Rosebush Pruning the pair have crafted a sick, sad world of blackly comic...
Forget roses – we need to talk about violets of the shrinking variety, especially in reference to those who caught Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning when it premiered at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. Bullish, battle-hardened critics suddenly saw red upon viewing this bone-dry, button-pushing comedy about nuclear-level family dysfunction based on a screenplay by Yorgos Lanthimos’ regular writing partner Efthimis Filippou....
Meta and Snap rolled out new smart glasses last month, the latest sign that the industry is racing to put a camera and an AI assistant onto users’ faces. As the fast-growing market heats up, upstarts like Even Realities are muscling in on the giants. Even Realities, a three-year-old Shenzhen-headquartered startup, has raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round...
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Group project, but make it 1776,” the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben Franklin, leading to a very...
The browser wars have entered a new phase this year: The fight isn’t just over search results anymore — it’s over which company’s AI gets to act on your behalf inside the browser. Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari still dominate the market overall, with Chrome’s edge coming largely from how aggressively it has woven generative AI into search. But 2026...
Early-career scientists in China face intense competition for entry-level jobs. Credit: Xinhua/ShutterstockChina’s main research funding agency will increase its number of prestigious grants for early-career scientists by 50%. The move is part of the country’s promise to step up support for young scientists, who face intense competition to secure funding and jobs. Early-career researchers have welcomed the news, but some...
More than 1,000 images of bodies flash across the screens in a sequence that feels endless. Many are swollen, have darkened skin or bear the marks of injuries, making identification difficult.Families search for any trace that might help identify their loved ones - a tattoo, a bracelet, a piece of clothing, or an item from their home.Sometimes there is a...
(RNS) — The temptation is to follow “The Star-Spangled Banner,” our national anthem, with an immediate declaration of “Play ball!” But in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States, let’s resist that temptation and listen. Let’s start with the first stanza — the only one anyone knows. O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What...
Scientists have uncovered evidence that could change how doctors think about a common form of stroke and why standard preventive treatments often fail. New research suggests that lacunar ischemic stroke is not primarily caused by fatty plaque building up inside arteries, as many have assumed. Instead, the strongest link appears to be with changes in the brain's blood vessels themselves,...
