Physical media has been dying quietly for years, and most people didn't fight it because streaming was just easier. Buying a digital copy felt like the same thing, just without the disc. The problem is that it isn't the same thing at all, and it's not just about ownership; it's about the quality that we're all losing out on.

Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash promises lower memory use and API costs, but buyers should test its performance, compatibility and total deployment expenses.

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California creates standards and a registry for independent AI assessors. Learn what the new framework could mean for businesses and IT leaders.

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NASA and IBM released an open-source AI model and dataset to help researchers map lunar craters, volcanic features and potential ice locations.

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China’s GEAIR 2.0 humanoid robot pollinates tomato flowers in under 10 seconds, combining AI, robotics and gene editing for crop breeding and farm automation.

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Apple’s redesigned Health app turns wearable data into readiness scores, Health Age estimates, and personalized daily wellness guidance for users.

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NVIDIA unveiled new AI for Media tools at IBC 2026 for real-time video upscaling, frame generation, synthetic-video detection and live broadcasting.

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Apple Watch Series 12 adds a new health sensing system, Audio Intelligence, faster charging, longer workout battery life, and ceramic case options too.

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Apple raised prices on older iPhones by $100 after its latest launch, changing the usual strategy for buyers waiting for previous models to get cheaper.

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Thailand has asked 49 data centers under construction to pause voluntarily while more than 117 pending projects face an approval freeze.

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Apple’s iPhone Duo still has a display crease, but clever hardware and software make it harder to notice. Here’s what buyers should know.

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Apple Pencil is coming to the iPhone with iPhone Duo, but users will have to wait beyond launch before stylus support becomes available.

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Seattle biotech startup BrainChild Bio has raised $116 million to advance an experimental CAR T cell therapy for one of the deadliest forms of childhood brain cancer.

The Series A financing will primarily fund a pivotal Phase 2 clinical trial of an investigational therapy being developed for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. The rare brainstem tumor primarily affects children ages 5 to 10 and has few treatment options.

The financing was led by an undisclosed private family fund and foundation, with participation from BrainChild Bio’s initial investor, Seattle Children’s, and new investor WRF Capital.

BrainChild Bio is building on CAR T cell technology developed at Seattle Children’s and licensed exclusively to the company in 2023. The approach involves genetically engineering a patient’s own T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells.

The company says its new therapy has now entered its ILLUMINATE Phase 2 study, designed as a registration-stage trial that could eventually support an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

DIPG presents a particularly difficult challenge for cancer researchers because the tumors grow in the brainstem, an area critical to basic functions, and the blood-brain barrier can limit the ability of treatments to reach the tumor.

BrainChild Bio’s approach delivers the CAR T cells directly into cerebrospinal fluid through an implanted catheter, allowing the cells to reach the tumor locally and potentially be administered repeatedly.

About 300 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with DIPG each year, a devastating brain tumor with no cure and few treatment options. Radiation is the current standard of care, but children diagnosed with DIPG have a median overall survival of only about 11 months.

BrainChild Bio also plans to use proceeds from the new financing to advance a CAR T therapy designed to target three different cancer markers, toward initial clinical testing in glioblastoma.

The company was founded by Michael Jensen, who previously helped develop the underlying work at Seattle Children’s and was a co-founder of Umoja Biopharma and Juno Therapeutics. The CEO is Steven Brugger, who most recently served as founder and CEO of Affinivax, a biotech company which was acquired by GSK for $3.3 billion in 2022. 

“This financing enables us to chart our path forward to serve the children and families afflicted with devastating brain tumors and represents a new paradigm for treating CNS brain tumors in children and adults,” Jensen said in a statement. “Our team at BrainChild Bio is steadfast in its commitment to harness CAR T cell technology in CNS tumors and we are uniquely positioned to do so.”

Apple unveils the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, AirPods 5 and new Apple Watches. Compare prices, release dates, features and buyer trade-offs.

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Compare 10 smartphones with batteries from 5,088mAh to 10,000mAh, plus gaming-test results that show why capacity alone cannot predict endurance.

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Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro adds a variable-aperture camera, A20 Pro chip, Siri AI and longer battery life. Here’s what buyers need to know before upgrading.

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OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI labs may need to slow development as automated research advances and monitoring becomes less reliable.

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XPENG’s IRON humanoid robot has walked off its automated assembly line as the company targets mass production and commercial deployments in 2027.

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Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini offer different paths beyond Claude, with ecosystem fit, governance, pricing, and workflows shaping the choice.

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