Eating too much sugar on antibiotics could squash helpful gut bacteria
While a spoonful of sugar might help us gulp down a bitter-tasting antibiotic, it also may increase the damage that...
Year: 2026
Google Pixel Watch 5 Sale: Its Lowest Price Yet (2026)
If you’ve been waiting for a good deal on Google’s latest smartwatch before you commit, you're in luck. The Google...
Introducing Fast and Reliable Wireless Debugging with Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi 2.0
Posted by Steven Jenkins, Product Manager, Sherif Eid, Senior Software Engineer, and Fabien Sanglard, Staff Software Engineer, Android StudioWireless debugging...
A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices
The AI software-development platform Cursor, which is owned by SpaceX, had a malicious Anthropic Claude Code extension for Windows, macOS,...
Why did humans’ brains surpass chimps’? A tiny foe might help explain it
Viruses may be minuscule, but one could have influenced major differences between human and chimpanzee brains. Millions of years ago,...
How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO...
Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks
When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how large language models (LLMs) assist developers...
Liquid Glass Finally Makes Sense on the iPhone Duo
Flexibility matters when resizing windows across any device. But while announcing its updates, Apple also dropped major hints that all...
The human voice
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the power of the human voice, hopeful advances in treating stiff person syndrome and...
Law Firm Linked to Elon Musk Started an ‘Election Integrity’ Organization
The law firm that helped set up Elon Musk’s America PAC has created a new, nationwide “election integrity” organization aligned...
