Andrés Morales

Autonomous laboratories combine robotic arms and language models to design, run, and analyze experiments without a human intervening at every step. A-Lab, from Berkeley Lab, and Coscientist, from Carnegie Mellon, have already shown concrete results in materials science and chemistry.

Apple released iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 with a complete redesign of parental controls. Ask to Browse requires parents to approve every new site before their children can visit it, and Communication Safety now detects violent content in conversations. The change arrives alongside Siri AI, the new generative AI version of Siri.

Apple has launched Siri AI, a completely redesigned version of its assistant powered by the new generation of Apple Intelligence. The update arrives alongside iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, and includes new parental controls plus improvements to Photos, Safari, and the Camera app.

Valve unveiled Steam Frame, its first standalone virtual reality headset, alongside the return of the Steam Machine and a new Steam Controller. The device runs SteamOS on its own or streams games from a PC over a dedicated wireless connection, without relying on home wifi.

EuroBirdPortal aggregates citizen observer data from across European countries to generate weekly bird distribution maps. Its interface is available in 38 languages, and the project remains active in 2026 under the European Union’s LIFE program.

Chrome rejected JPEG XL in 2023, and three years later, perceptual compression metrics still don’t vindicate its supporters. A technical analysis compares JPEG XL against AVIF and WebP in real-world web scenarios, beyond the symbolism of the open format.

A 64-number cipher that resisted 373 years of decryption attempts fell to Claude Fable 5.1 in under an hour. The key was never a secret alphabet: it was the very book where Thomas Urquhart hid it.

Misleading Google Ads passed Google’s human review twice, even though Gemini flags them as fraud instantly. The case exposes the gap between the AI Google promotes and the AI it actually uses to moderate its own advertising platform.