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As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, a vital network of research centers has been unable to help on the ground. The reason: The Trump administration slashed its funding last year, in part due to conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19.Established in 2020 by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network was conducting research into viruses that emerge from wildlife and spill over to people, including the family of viruses that Ebola belongs to. The network operated 10 sites…
There are so many phones that offer great performance and even excellent battery life for a lower price than a traditional flagship, but very few give you the flagship camera experience.That’s why I was particularly excited to test out the new Xiaomi 17T Pro, which now gets a flagship-grade telephoto camera and much of the Leica Authentic color magic from the premium Xiaomi Ultra models, but at a much lower price.And I pit it against the popular iPhone 17 Pro, the default smartphone for so many people out there.The Xiaomi claims to be a “telephoto master” with careful tuning of…
We got a big update on Dragon Quest 12 yesterday, and it wasn’t exactly a happy one. Apparently the game has been rebooted “from scratch” after some developmental difficulties, and we still have no idea when it’s coming. It’s even got a new subtitle, changing from The Flames of Fate to Beyond Dreams. On the bright side, we did get our first real trailer for 12. And it looks mostly gorgeous, populated with an interesting cast of silly fellas in Akira Toriyama’s signature style, including a lizard guy. Except, uh, what’s this guy’s deal? ©Square Enix This is the main…
There’s a new autonomous vehicle in town, or at least in the towns of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. Starting today, Alphabet self-driving vehicle developer Waymo will start picking up members of the public in its new Ojai vehicles (pronounced “oh hai”)—pale blue boxy minivans studded with sensors and complete with steering wheels, even though they’re designed to travel without drivers. For now, the rides in these new cars, which can be summoned through Waymo’s app, will be free.It’s been a long road for the vehicle, first announced by Waymo in 2021 and tested on public streets since 2024.…
As such, you’d probably expect a Moto fanboy like me to do a celebratory dance whenever a market report like the one compiled by Omdia yesterday comes out. But while my initial reaction to seeing my favorite smartphone vendor pull off a year-on-year improvement in US sales in Q1 2026 that Apple, Samsung, and Google couldn’t even dream of was an admittedly euphoric one, the more I looked at those latest regional numbers, the sadder I got.The lack of competition is clearly the biggest problem hereLook, I don’t mean to minimize Motorola’s achievement, as it obviously can’t be easy to…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the next major installment in the yearly, globally popular FPS franchise. MW4 is set to launch on October 23rd on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and for the first time ever, Nintendo Switch 2. Ahead of today’s big reveal, I attended a digital preview of the next Call of Duty sequel and came away impressed by some of the changes developer Infinity Ward is making to the series, but still unsure if Modern Warfare 4 is truly, as Activision claims, “a new chapter” for the franchise. At that digital media briefing I attended…
Over time, the tech industry has developed and deployed variations on the fat-tree architecture. But the design has room for improvement. It’s generally reliable, but also rigid, inefficient, and requires complex cabling. As in, actual physical cables.If you’ve ever been in a data center or an office building’s server room, you’ve likely seen nests of colorful cables spilling out of metal racks. Cabling is one of the greatest costs in networking, Rehder says, and Amazon’s global data centers are currently connected with 20 million kilometers of fiber optic cables. That’s roughly the distance it would take to travel from Earth…
YouTube Music is very popular worldwide, but sometimes Google leaves us scratching our heads over some basic features missing from the platform. Playlist sorting is one example, or should I say “was”? Up until now, organizing your favorite tracks on the platform has been a bit of a nightmare.Thankfully, YouTube is finally doing something about it. The company is starting to roll out a key update that introduces three essential sorting options – Title, Artist, and Album, Android Headlines reports.The rollout is happening server-side The new sorting feature in action | Image by Android Headlines The new feature isn’t widely…
Canon has, however, missed the opportunity to add a mode dial lock while redesigning. Inadvertently knocking the mode into the wrong settings is one of my biggest pet peeves with my Mark II, and the same is true with the Mark III. It’s probably not a big issue for general shooters, but when the Mark II (or III) is in a dual-camera harness, it has a tendency to knock against my waist and slip into the wrong mode. Now imagine quickly reaching for your camera to grab that split-second moment at a wedding, whether it’s a first kiss, confetti throw,…
Long-time Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies had a very acrimonious split with Rockstar Games back in 2016. It resulted in a legal fight, filled with competing allegations, that eventually ended in a confidential agreement in 2019. Last year, his new studio launched a third-person shooter with open-world driving called MindsEye that ended up being the worst-reviewed game of 2025. And yesterday, the CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two appeared to take a subtle shot at the failed enterprise. “Making hits seems to get harder and harder and harder as entertainment industries mature,” Strauss Zelnick said during remarks at the…