Google Gemini can now read your WhatsApp chats without you knowing – but you can stop it
Starting from July 7, 2025, Google Gemini can interact with some third-party apps on Android…
Create a travel planning agentic workflow with Amazon Nova
Traveling is enjoyable, but travel planning can be complex to navigate and a hassle. Travelers must book accommodations, plan activities, and arrange local transportation. All these decisions can feel overwhelming. Although travel professionals have long helped manage these complexities, recent breakthroughs in generative AI have made something entirely new possible—intelligent assistants that can understand natural…
Antarctic Ocean secrets hidden in layers of seafloor mud
Victoria Gill, Kate Stephens and Gwyndaf Hughes BBC News Science team Elisenda Balleste The researchers worked from a vessel at a number of locations around the Antarctic Peninsula Why would anyone brave hand-numbing cold, icy winds and rough seas – sometimes working through the night – to dig up mud from the Antarctic seabed? That…
How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession
Elon Musk had a question: “Does anybody have any experience with first principles analysis?” He was speaking to a room full of kids, many of whom knew Musk as the CEO of companies that made rockets and cool-looking cars—and as the founder of Ad Astra, the microschool they attended in his Bel Air mansion, per…
Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria
Adoption by schools: Apple played a crucial role in getting computers into classrooms, in part by promoting legislation to offer tax breaks to computer manufacturers that donated computers to schools, museums, and libraries. In the early 1980s, Apple donated close to 10,000 of its Apple IIe computers to California schools as part of the company’s…
How cocoa beans’ microbiomes are key to the finest chocolate flavours
Chocolate is made by fermenting cocoa beans, which come from the fruit of cacao trees Mimi Chu Leung We could soon taste new kinds of chocolate after the discovery of fungi and bacteria that produce fruity and caramel notes from cocoa beans. Chocolate is typically made by fermenting cocoa beans from the fruit of cacao…
Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them
Jennifer Goodnow, who teaches English as a second language in New York, feels similarly. She now plugs complex readings, like essays or book excerpts, into ChatGPT and asks it to create separate versions for advanced and beginner students, with corresponding depth-of-knowledge questions. Amanda Bickerstaff, a former teacher and CEO of AI for Education, an organization…
14 ways Googlers use AI to work more effectively
11. Keeping our platforms safe. Our Trust & Safety teams use AI to help detect and flag content that may violate our policies. This saves our teams significant time — a critical advantage when our teams manually reviewed more than one billion pieces of content in 2024 alone. 12. Understanding employee feedback. NotebookLM also helps…
WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped
Zoë Schiffer: Right. I love how you said that. Yeah, basically, if you want to potentially try and curry favor with Trump, you buy into one of these schemes, and maybe you’ll get invited to a fancy crypto dinner, which has happened before. Maybe you get something else. But even just the optics here are…
Art charity ‘buzzing’ to move into new £75m Gloucester campus
Sophia Allsopp BBC News, West of England BBC The former Debenhams in Gloucester has been transformed into a university building An art charity has said it is “absolutely buzzing” to be part of a £75m city centre university campus that officially opened its doors on Monday. Art Shape, which works with the NHS to deliver…
Myanmar’s massive quake hints at bigger earthquakes to come
On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the Southeast Asia country of Myanmar along the Sagaing Fault, killing thousands and causing widespread damage. A new study from Caltech uses satellite imaging of the Sagaing Fault’s motion to improve models of how such faults may behave in the future. The study indicates that strike-slip…
