Alphabet’s Google has laid off hundreds of employees across key product teams—Android, Pixel, and Chrome—as the company continues shifting resources into its growing AI efforts. The job cuts, first reported by The Information, affect its platforms and devices unit, signaling […]
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It’s been a busy couple days for in-depth journalistic explorations of Apple’s recent Siri and AI struggles. Following yesterday’s The Information report, today The New York Times has its own deep dive. One of the biggest takeaways? Apple’s planning to launch its new iOS 19 Siri upgrades sooner than we expected.
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This week, as part of the process to develop a budget for fiscal-year 2026, the Trump White House shared the draft version of its budget request for NASA with the space agency.
This initial version of the administration's budget request calls for an approximately 20 percent overall cut to the agency's budget across the board, effectively $5 billion from an overall topline of about $25 billion. However, the majority of the cuts are concentrated within the agency's Science Mission Directorate, which oversees all planetary science, Earth science, astrophysics research, and more.
According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive nearly a 50 percent cut in funding. After the agency received $7.5 billion for science in fiscal-year 2025, the Trump administration has proposed a science topline budget of just $3.9 billion for the coming fiscal year.
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Doctor Whoâs shapeshifting Time Lord almost always has a plan when they encounter new threats from beyond the stars. And the Doctorâs companions can usually count on them to pull a convoluted, crisis-averting trick out of their sleeves whenever things get too hairy. In the past, the Doctor has often been presented as more of an eccentric leader whose human friends need them to take charge in dangerous situations. But Doctor Whoâs latest season is poised to switch things up by pairing the Doctor with someone who already knows a thing or two about staying levelheaded in times of crisis.
Though Ruby Sunday â the mysterious keyboardist played by Millie Gibson â will still be part of Doctor Whoâs upcoming season, that dynamic is going to be complicated by the arrival of a new companion. Like many of the Doctorâs previous traveling partners, Belinda Chandra (Andor alum Varada Sethu) is an ordinary woman who isnât clued in to the extraterrestrial happenings constantly popping off across the planet. Sheâs an overworked nurse who loves her job more than she loathes her aggravating roommates.
Because thereâs always a doctor who needs her attention at work, Belinda does …
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Itâs important to keep saying that we still donât know much about whatâs going on with the Trump administrationâs tariff policy. Theyâre on again, theyâre off again. Theyâre a negotiating tactic! Theyâre a permanent policy donât even ask! With China, the numbers are quickly becoming so large theyâre basically pretend, and with many other countries the number whipsaws back and forth on a practically daily basis.
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That is the chaos tech companies large and small are having to grapple with right now. On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay, David, and The Vergeâs Jake Kastrenakes talk about how theyâre coping. (After a brief diversion in party speaker territory.) Huge corporations like Nintendo are delaying pre-orders and reassessing prices; smaller companies like Framework are stopping and starting and re-pricing all in the span of a few …
While it is not surprising that Google is planning to release the Pixel Watch 4 soon, new leaks suggest a couple of small changes that may set this apart from every other watch. The leaked renders provide a detailed look at the familiar design.
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Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as they recapped each first season episode and second season episode of Amazon's WoT TV series. Now we're back in the saddle for season 3—along with insights, jokes, and the occasional wild theory.
These recaps won't cover every element of every episode, but they will contain major spoilers for the show and the book series. We'll do our best to not spoil major future events from the books, but there's always the danger that something might slip out. If you want to stay completely unspoiled and haven't read the books, these recaps aren't for you.
New episodes of The Wheel of Time season 3 will be posted for Amazon Prime subscribers every Thursday. This write-up covers episode seven, "Goldeneyes," which was released on April 10.
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On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape.
Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the companyâs 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the name of Facebook at the time, will defend itself by arguing that it helped grow those acquisitions into large businesses used by billions of people while facing plenty of competition along the way. The companyâs senior executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg, are expected to testify during the trial in Washington, DC.
The trial itself has been a long time coming. Itâs based on a lawsuit filed under the first Trump administration and then amended under the Biden administration, seeking solutions as dramatic as unwinding Meta’s big mergers. Itâs the third US trial attempting to bust up Big Tech in two years, following the Justice Departmentâs successful case against Googleâs search business and a second one pending a decision against its ad tech business. It kicks off amid a broad rethinking of how antitrust …
