Xbox commemorates its 25th anniversary with community-designed visuals, a special Game Pass collection, a global FanFest tour, and new official merchandise available online.
A Databricks analysis compares relational and non-relational databases, outlining their structural differences, scalability trade-offs, and ideal use cases for data-intensive applications.
Databricks outlines criteria for selecting between transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) databases, or running both via CDC replication, based on workload demands for speed, consistency, and historical analysis.
UC Berkeley’s Moffitt Library reopens after a $58 million renovation, nearly doubling student-centered space with flexible study areas, a maker studio, and expanded café, shaped by undergraduate input.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23, including security updates and Aurora-specific improvements.
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication for replicating data from external Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK, expanding authentication options beyond SASL/SCRAM and mTLS.
Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source is undergoing an upgrade to produce 100 times brighter and fully coherent soft X-ray light, enabling atomic-scale material studies with unprecedented precision.
The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is undergoing a major upgrade to enhance its X-ray beams, enabling more precise studies in fields like quantum computing, microelectronics, and energy...
Amazon Connect Customer now offers information extraction for voice and chat interactions, automatically capturing key data to reduce manual entry and improve agent efficiency.
Into the Radius 2 launches on PlayStation VR2 on September 24, 2026, featuring a new single-player campaign and a free 2-player co-op update arriving Q4 2026.
Amazon Web Services has made OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud regions, expanding access to high-performance AI tools for U.S. government and regulated workloads.
The FTC and five states secured a court order ending a 2025 deal where Zillow paid Redfin $100 million to exit the rental listing market, restoring competition and requiring Redfin to re-enter with expanded services.
The U.S. Department of Justice launched the National Fraud Detection Center to coordinate multi-agency efforts against fraud targeting taxpayer-funded programs, including cross-program schemes.
Tetra Tech EC Inc. agreed to pay $57 million to settle allegations it falsified soil test results at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, defrauding the U.S. Navy and endangering public safety.
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version 8.4.11, introducing post-quantum TLS encryption and security fixes from the MySQL community.
NASA highlights Lake Bonneville’s geological legacy, from ancient floods to modern engineering feats, as scientists test Venus mission instruments in its salt flats.
Anthropic has launched Claude for small business, a plugin for its Claude Cowork desktop app that automates routine tasks such as payroll and invoicing by integrating with popular business tools like QuickBooks and...
Zapier evaluates five Intercom alternatives for 2026, focusing on AI features, omnichannel support, proactive engagement, pricing predictability, and integration depth.
RTX reports a 20% annual increase in output and production time reduction at its Holt, Michigan facility since 2024, driven by digital technologies including Real-Time Location Services and an andon visual management...
Vercel Functions now supports larger Bun runtime packages up to 5GB and extended execution durations up to 30 minutes, previously limited to Node.js and Python.
Vercel has replaced the Sensitive toggle for environment variables with Config and Secret types, clarifying access controls and simplifying team policy management.
NASA’s Curiosity rover resumed its planned ascent of Mount Sharp after a brief detour, conducting geology and environmental monitoring during sols 4982–4987.
Microsoft announces the arrival of the first production Vera Rubin AI accelerators at its datacenters, developed in partnership with NVIDIA, marking a shift toward infrastructure-driven AI competitiveness.
AWS released Neuron 2.32.0 with expanded NKI programming, MXFP8 training kernels, and variable-size collectives for Trn2 and Trn3 instances, enhancing model training efficiency.
AWS announced Amazon Connect Customer, enabling managers to query contact-center data in plain language and receive instant insights, evidence, and recommended actions across 150 metrics.
Creator Kareem Rahma’s YouTube show SubwayTakes, filmed on moving subway cars with cinema equipment, earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Short Form Series, highlighting the rise of creator-led vertical...
NASA documented the August 12 total solar eclipse from ground, air, and space, capturing the Sun’s corona and studying its effects on Earth’s atmosphere using aircraft, balloons, and the International Space Station.
UC Berkeley researchers identified a compound, TOFA, that helps burn fat without reducing food intake or muscle mass, unlike GLP-1 drugs. The discovery, published in *Science Advances*, shows promise in mouse models for...
AWS Deadline Cloud Monitor now tracks automatic download status at job and task levels, improving output file verification for render pipelines.
NASA has modernized its Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) code, transitioning from the legacy CEA2 to CEA v3 with improved interfaces, updated thermochemical data, and enhanced maintainability while...