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‘It Was Nuts’: The Extreme Tests that Show Why Hail Is a Multibillion-Dollar Problem

The costs of a hail damage have ballooned over the past two decades, prompting researchers to resort to extreme measures to understand how these storms destroy buildings.

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

Business

Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic.

How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak

Computing

Tech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations

IT spending bonanza biggest in 30 years

Computing

Artificial intelligence is driving purchases of IT products and services at a level not seen since the web went mainstream

Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID

Computing

Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions

Intel Takes Major Step in Plan to Acquire Chip Startup SambaNova

Business

The two chip companies have signed a term sheet, according to sources with direct knowledge of the agreement.

Three in ten U.S. teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing

While teenagers may start out using AI chatbots for basic questions, their relationship with chatbot platforms has the potential to turn addictive.

Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer

OpenAI says that Dresser will be responsible for the company's revenue strategy in enterprise and customer success.

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn't used to train AI models.

Truecaller now lets users protect households from scam calls

Apps

Truecaller's Family Protection will be rolled out widely in the first quarter of 2026. The new feature lets up to five people join a family group overseen by one member who acts as the administrator and manages scam-blocking settings for the others.

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