The device was unveiled this week in Brooklyn, where representatives from the Mountain View, California giant highlighted top-flight features that can silence background noise on the phone. 

Researchers this week described one of these marriages gone wrong - a twosome that borders on the extreme, with the pair whirling around each other every 51 minutes in the fastest such orbital period known for a rare class of binary stars. As part of the drama, one star is eating its companion.

The biggest software upgrade in the short history of crypto has fulfilled its promise to wipe out more than 99 percent of the electricity used by the second-biggest cryptocurrency.

Paabo's work demonstrated practical implications during the COVID-19 pandemic when he found that people infected with the virus who carry a gene variant inherited from Neanderthals are more at risk of severe illness than whose who do not.

The long-awaited editing tool test "went well," so it is being made more widely available, the San Francisco based tech firm said in a tweet, adding that it is "coming soon" to the United States.

The world's telescopes turned their gaze towards the space rock Dimorphos earlier this week for a historic test of Earth's ability to defend itself against a potential future life-threatening asteroid.

TikTok is due to enter a partnership with Los Angeles, California, the United States-based TalkShopLive to launch its live shopping platform in North America by outsourcing its operation, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Saturday citing two people familiar with the operations. 

At Google's Quantum AI (artificial intelligence) laboratory, dozens of super-smart people labor in an office kitted out with climbing walls and electric bikes to shape the next generation of computers, a generation that will be unlike anything users currently have in their pockets or offices.

The operation is like playing billiards in space, using Newton's laws of motion to guide us. 

Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center outside Washington, DC, 10 months after DART was launched.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) aims to collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Monday night, hoping to slightly alter its trajectory -- the first time such an operation has been attempted.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California last November and is fast approaching its target, which it will strike at roughly 14,000 miles per hour (23,000 kph).

If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches.

The last time astronomers had such a clear view of the farthest planet from the Sun was when NASA's Voyager 2 became the first and only space probe to fly past the ice giant for just a few hours in 1989.

The theft targeted London-based Wintermute's decentralised finance operations, Evgeny Gaevoy said in a tweet. The firm, which provides liquidity across major crypto exchanges and trading platforms, remains solvent after the hack, he added. 

The new prices, excluding auto-renewable subscriptions, will be effective as early as Oct. 5, Apple said in a blog post. 

Internet forum Kiwi Farms was working to get back online Monday after a breach by hackers, in the wake of being blocked by internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare due to potentially dangerous rhetoric.

While organic matter has been found on the Red Planet before, the new discovery is seen as especially promising because it came from an area where sediment and salts were deposited into a lake -- conditions where life could have arisen.

TikTok is serving up misinformation to users searching for news about politics, climate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and more, according to a report released on Wednesday.

An international research team on Monday revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, leaving astronomers "blown away."

NASA is now targeting Sept. 27 as the earliest possible launch date for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, the agency said in a blog post on Monday.

It was the height of the Cold War and America needed a big victory to demonstrate its space superiority after the Soviet Union had launched the first satellite and put the first man in orbit.

Previously, the earliest known amputation involved a 7,000-year-old skeleton found in France, and experts believed such operations only emerged in settled agricultural societies.

A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Kalimantan rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves that a surgical amputation was successfully performed around 31,000 years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.

While a 90-minute presentation at the company's California headquarters did not include any surprise reveals, the tech giant did unveil new digital identification system to obviate the need for a physical sim card.

In an official notice, Brazilian authorities ordered "the immediate suspension of the distribution of iPhone brand smartphones, regardless of model or generation, that are not accompanied by a battery charger."

Images from the most powerful space telescope ever built have thrilled observers in recent months as it orbits the Sun a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth.

Up to 400,000 visitors are expected to flock to the Florida coast on Saturday, hoping to catch a glimpse -- and hear the roar -- of NASA's rocket launch to the Moon.

Hackers behind recent data breaches disclose their modus operandi and goals  

Former US president Donald Trump's Truth Social app is unwelcome in Google's app store until it abides by rules regarding content moderation including violent threats.