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Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new AI-powered speech-to-speech translation model designed to enable near real-time conversations between people speaking different languages. The technology marks a significant advancement in live translation, offering more natural and fluid communication while preserving key elements of a speaker’s voice, including tone, pacing, and pitch. The launch represents the latest milestone in Google’s decades-long effort to improve language translation through artificial intelligence. According to the company, Gemini 3.5 Live Translate can automatically detect more than 70 languages and generate translated speech just seconds behind the original speaker, creating a smoother experience than traditional…
Portable monitors have become the Swiss Army knives of modern tech. They travel with remote workers, expand cramped laptop screens, and occasionally double as gaming displays in hotel rooms. Most of them also follow a familiar formula: a basic Full HD panel, a foldable cover, and a price that stays comfortably under $250. Ugreen clearly looked at that formula and decided to ignore it. The company’s new AP16 portable monitor has officially landed in the U.S., bringing a feature list that feels more like a premium desktop display than something designed to slip into a backpack. The catch is that…
Ravie LakshmananJun 12, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer machines. Called Agentjacking by Tenet Security, the attack can be triggered by means of a fake error report crafted using Sentry, an open-source error-tracking and performance-monitoring platform. “The attack exploits a critical architectural flaw at the intersection of Sentry’s event ingestion (which accepts arbitrary payloads from anyone with the DSN) and the Sentry MCP server (which returns this data to AI agents as trusted system output),”…
Tod Higinbotham, CEO of ZincFive. (LinkedIn Photo) ZincFive, an Oregon company providing nickel-zinc batteries for data centers, announced Thursday that it’s partnering with SparkLabs Group to go public through a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company). The deal is valued at $600 million before additional investments. ZincFive has nearly 2 gigawatts of battery systems either sold or under contract, and reports that its revenue more than doubled from 2024 to approximately $66.9 million last year. It ended the year with a backlog of orders totaling $81 million. The new capital will allow ZincFive to scale manufacturing at two plants in China,…
On a blustery March day, the artist Jim Sanborn received visitors at his studio on an isolated island in the Chesapeake Bay. The visitors sat him down in front of a laptop, and he typed in a secret message. They compressed the message using a unique hash function, sent that to the cloud, and wiped the laptop clean. Sanborn hoped that this action would set him free. But did it?That’s the latest twist in the story of Kryptos, the famous Sanborn sculpture that’s been sitting outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, since 1990. The artwork is a copper S-curve that…
Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), effective July 1. Zhao is the Class of 1941 Professor of Cities and Transportation at MIT.In making the announcement, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning Hashim Sarkis noted that Zhao is a renowned transportation planner, educator, and scholar, and a world leader in imagining and shaping better futures for mobility.“Jinhua is one of those rare scholars who moves seamlessly between cutting-edge research and real-world policy,” says Sarkis. “His work with governments and transportation agencies around the world is a model…
Nick Sadler and his wife had different ideas of what a chill Saturday looked like. He considered the weekend a blank slate — no set plans, the family’s moment to reset and chill. She was under the impression that time was up for grabs and put a short hangout on their calendar, which Sadler saw as his wife not taking his schedule into account. To settle the argument, he opened up ChatGPT, specifically the group chat function, which allows more than one human to interact with the technology. Sadler prompted the chatbot to act as a neutral mediator and to…
A bad day for the creative software company Adobe Inc. was made even worse after it revealed another top executive is departing, as the news overshadowed a solid earnings and revenue beat. The company said today that Chief Financial Officer Dan Durn is going to leave on June 15, having served in the role for almost five years, to seek a new “professional opportunity.” He will be replaced by Steve Day, senior vice president of corporate finance and the CFO of the Customer Experience Orchestration business, on an interim basis. The market reacted negatively to the news, which came just…
We had a campaign we wanted to get in front of the right people. The problem was familiar: We had a targeted list of business leaders we genuinely thought would benefit from what we were promoting, but no clean process for actually reaching them at scale. And we didn’t have enough time to do it the slow way [read: without AI].
Jeffrey Morgan/Getty Images There are existing methods to collect water from the ambient air, but most of them are large or cumbersome. Recent research by the University of Texas at Austin is taking that concept and transforming it something you could have on hand at all times. Or more literally, on your back at all times. In a study published in Scientific Advances, the team used a special textile to create a jacket capable of atmospheric water harvesting. “We wanted to rethink the form of the technology,” said UT Austin’s Guihua Yu, one of the authors…