You may remember Abidur Chowdhury as the industrial designer who introduced the iPhone Air during Apple’s September 2025 keynote and then left Apple two months later, only to resurface as the head of ...

Anthropic is merging its front end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks. The unified interface lets users access chat, Cowork, ...

Minecraft Bedrock has released a new beta and preview for the 26.60 update, which is planned to release after the third game drop of 2026.

using standardised low-code components. The implementation phase for EasyGov 2.0 was approved in the summer of 2026. Existing government services will be gradually integrated into the new platform.

Minecraft Bedrock update 26.40 is live on all platforms on August 4, and this shows up as console update 1.055. While this doesn’t bring any new content, it does add new accessibility features, bug ...

The number of people with electrodes in their brains is believed to have more than doubled in the last couple of years. This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first ...

It might soon be “game over” for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

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As you’ve probably noticed, the Windows 11 user interface is a patchwork of different solutions, some of which have been around since the introduction of Windows 3.1 in 1992. It’s anything but ...

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A GUI is essentially the "face" of your software. It’s the visual layer that allows us mere mortals to interact with a computer using buttons, menus, and icons rather than typing cryptic commands into ...