AI-Data & Emerging Tech

Google unveiled a capability called memories for its Gemini platform in February that lets it store data from past talks. Google has lately debuted a new chat tool called Personal Context. Gemini’s creative feature lets it progressively pick up your preferences and change its replies to fit. The senior director of the Gemini app, Michael Siliski, noted in a blog post, “The Gemini app can now reference your past chats to learn your preferences, delivering more personalized responses the more you use it.” In terms of its operation, Gemini will recall your favorites and dislikes. For example, if you bring up a favorite comic book and then need help organizing a themed birthday party, it will take that into consideration and perhaps offer the comic book as a possible theme. Moreover, it wil...

Often backed by leaked signals discovered in Apple’s software upgrades, speculation around a smart home gadget from Apple with a touchscreen has been around for many years. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg recently released a report, however, that Apple's ambitions could extend beyond just producing HomePods with displays affixed. Apple, popularly known for its best security features that keep you alert regarding your security breach, is now creating a ‘tabletop robot’ that looks like an iPad mounted on a movable arm that can rotate and change its position to follow users within a room. This revolutionary gadget is meant to turn towards people conversing with it or those it aims to attract attention to. Along with adding an in-built camera for FaceTime calls, the prototypes make use of a 7-inch...

The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), the keeper of the Matter smart-home protocol, softly released new matter update version 1.4.2 on August 11, 2025. Expected yet significant release meant not to wow with spectacular features but rather to strengthen the fundamental architecture of modern smart homes. Central to this new matter update is Wi-Fi-only commissioning, which enables devices to connect to the network utilizing just Wi-Fi via Unsynchronized Service Discovery (USD), hence removing the need for required Bluetooth LE audio hardware. For producers, this development creates fresh opportunities for cost savings and might allow older Wi-Fi-only devices to get Matter compatibility via just firmware updates. Security has undergone a notable improvement. The new matter upda...

Currently, being taken advantage of by two Russian cybercrime groups is a major zero-day flaw in the most widely used WinRAR file compression program. Some of these attacks are customized to particular targets; they are meant to backdoor computers that open dangerous files attached to phishing emails. ESET said on Monday that these attacks were first identified on the 18th of July when a file was found in an unusual path directory. ESET determined by July 24 that this behavior was linked to the abuse of an undetected flaw in WinRAR, a file compression application with a reported installed user base of about 500 million. On the same day, ESET notified the WinRAR developers; six days later, a patch was published. Within Windows, the WinRAR 0-day vulnerability appeared to have an am...

Keeping crew health becomes more difficult as human spaceflight missions get longer and travel further from Earth. Presently, astronauts on the International Space Station depend on direct contact with Houston without an AI medical assistant, ongoing medical supplies deliveries, and the choice to return home quickly after a six-month term. But this scenario could change shortly as NASA, working with commercial partners like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, gets ready for longer flights intended to send people to Mars and the Moon. This approaching reality is motivating NASA to gradually improve on-orbit medical care to be more independent from Earth. An AI medical assistant under development with Google is among the first investigations along this line. Designed to help astronauts diagnose and treat...

Smartphones in the mobile-centric world store a lot of sensitive information, messages, location history, financial records, and beyond. Regrettably, this reality makes them ideal candidates for high-risk applications, especially those that improperly seek permission include covert trackers, or even pose as genuine threats. As a result encompassing critical security flaws Particularly inside financial and cryptocurrency apps, the abuse of permissions is a major ongoing problem. Leading crypto applications have been studied to reveal that many need an alarming number of permissions, averaging 22.9 per app, with some requiring as many as 45, therefore increasing the device's vulnerability and putting consumers at risk of data theft and illicit access. Hard-coded passwords are likew...

In a major step toward monetization, The Browser Company has revealed a paid tier called Dia Pro for its artificial intelligence-driven browser, Dia. Subscribers have limitless access to the browser’s artificial intelligence chat and 'Skills' functions under this $20 per month subscription service. Casual users will still have access to a free version, even if this will come with certain constraints on the AI capabilities.  Though the exact limitations for free access have not been made public, CEO Josh Miller has guaranteed users in interviews with The New York Times that those who engage with the AI only a few times a week may continue to use the service without charge. Dia, introduced in June after being previewed late last year, represents a significant departure from the compa...

The debut of a new developer beta for macOS 26 Tahoe happens today at Apple, along with a giant makeover of a well-known icon. Thus, the old classic Macintosh HD hard drive icon, which for years was an image of an old spinning hard drive, has now been updated to present something which clearly tries to resemble a solid-state drive. Although an actual SSD in your Mac is far from looking like a few chips soldered on a circuit board, that can be overlooked.  With the new installations of macOS ceasing to show the internal disk on the desktop by default, a few years ago, the old Macintosh HD icon began to disappear from sight entirely. Furthermore, it has indeed been some time since Apple switched to SSDs for booting new Macs. The original hard drive icon was introduced in 2000, coinci...

Simultaneously introducing ChatGPT improvements meant to boost the capacity of the AI chatbot to detect and adjust new mental health safeguards for emotional anguish, OpenAI is expected to reveal its GPT-5 AI model this week. Achieving this, OpenAI is partnering with experts and advisory committees to improve ChatGPT’s responses in given situations so that it may provide ‘evidence-based resources when appropriate.’ Recent reports have highlighted stories from people whose loved ones have experienced mental health crises, wherein interactions with the chatbot seemed to worsen their hallucinations. In April, OpenAI rolled back an update that made ChatGPT too amiable, even in potentially dangerous situations. The company then admitted that the chatbot’s “sycophantic interactions can be unc...

As part of a new compensation plan meant to make sure the billionaire inventor stays in charge Tesla (TSLA.O) has rewarded CEO Elon Musk with a new stock award worth about $29 billion. The move comes during the company’s shift from struggling car sales to developing robotaxis and humanoid robots. Musk will be qualified to seek the new stock award prize if he stays in a senior executive role for two more years and a court does not bring back the 2018 compensation plan, now under review. He is obligated to hold the shares for five years, which is the same exercise price set in the 2018 contract, at a price of $23.34 per share. Tesla also intends to unveil a long-term CEO remuneration plan for a vote during its annual investor meeting set for November 6. New stock award keeping Musk...