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Around the Corner
The same LiDAR sensor that helps your iPhone autofocus, powers depth on your Vision Pro, or guides your robot vacuum across the living room floor can now do something far more surprising: see around corners. In a paper published today in Nature, a team led by MIT Media Lab researcher Siddharth Somasundaram demonstrates that consumer-grade smartphone LiDAR can be used for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging.
Mars
An artistic representation of the Zwan-Wolf effect at Mars, as observed by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. While this effect typically helps to deflect the solar wind at Earth, at Mars it is shown to “squeeze” the atmosphere and have implications on how space weather interacts with the planet. The yellow arrows represent the movement of the effect in the Martian atmosphere.
Fold
Google and Samsung are facing a major test to their foldable phone supremacy this year with the upcoming iPhone Fold. The Apple device's very existence has forced rivals into getting ahead of it with their own wider designs. For Samsung and Google, they're betting a major free Android update will be the difference between the devices.
Co-Pilot
Microsoft is retiring Copilot Mode on Edge, because its features are now built directly into the browser for both desktop and mobile. If you'll recall, Microsoft started testing Copilot Mode on Edge in July last year, allowing you to use it to search for information across multiple open browser tabs and to analyze the details on each page. Now, the feature is available not just on desktop, but also on Edge for mobile.
Privacy
A man using smartglasses recorded a conversation with a woman without her consent and posted it online, where it was viewed more than 40,000 times, but that’s not the worst part of the latest problem affecting the tech. When the woman discovered the video and contacted the person who posted it, asking for it to be removed, the creator told her he would only do so if she paid. The email response was published by the BBC, but no figure was disclosed.
Glasses
Samsung is poised to redefine the augmented reality (AR) landscape with the upcoming release of its first-generation Galaxy Glasses, codenamed “Jinju.” Scheduled to launch in July 2026, these AI-powered smart glasses will debut alongside the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Wide and Z Flip 8. With an estimated price of $400, the Galaxy Glasses aim to merge advanced technology with modern design.
NASA
A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first time in years and at power levels exceeding any previous test in the United States, a team fired up an electromagnetic thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor. This prototype achieved power levels beyond the highest-power electric thrusters on any of the agency's current spacecraft. Valuable data from the first firing of this thruster will help inform an upcoming series of tests.
iPhone Ultra
Apple reportedly plans to unveil its first foldable iPhone in September this year- it may be named "iPhone Ultra"- and expectations are high. In his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the foldable iPhone will be "the most significant overhaul in the iPhone's history. iPhone 4, iPhone 6 and iPhone X were clearly a big deal, but this is a whole new design," he said. Like Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7, the foldable iPhone will reportedly open up like a book, providing users with a large inner screen for watching videos, playing games, and multitasking.
Ban
Over the past several months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely watching. Australia’s regulations, along with other countries’ proposals, aim to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, which include cyberbullying, addiction, mental health issues, and exposure to predators.
Apple
Tim Cook, the executive who led Apple to become a $4 trillion company and defined its identity in the post-Steve Jobs era, is stepping down as CEO, Apple said on Monday. John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will take over as CEO effective September 1. Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and will remain as CEO through the summer to ensure a smooth transition, the company said.
AI Smell
Philip Maughan, writing in Noema Magazine, pushes back against breathless headlines that claim AI can now 'smell.' He notes that many stories conflate pattern recognition in language models with genuine olfactory sensing. The most dramatic claims come from media summaries, while careful reading of outlets like BBC Future shows the underlying behavior is an LLM repeating human associations about colors, shapes, and tastes captured in text corpora, not detecting volatile compounds.
Age
Age verification is coming for the internet- and it’s already raising red flags. Legislative efforts to age-gate parts of the internet are gaining traction. Some experts warn of compliance complications and data security breaches. What began as an effort to bolster kids’ safety online has morphed in recent months into a broader debate over privacy and anonymity on the internet. Mandatory age verification, which requires websites and apps to confirm or estimate users’ ages before they grant access to certain content, has continued to gain traction nationwide, as more states pass laws mandating some form of it.
Windows
This has never happened before. After 15 years, Microsoft is expiring Secure Boot certificates for the first time. These are based on an issue in 2011. Unless your PC is under two-years old, you’re still reliant on them now. They expire in June, by which time you need to have installed the 2023 Secure Boot certificates to stay safe. This is timely now, because the update status check and the new certificates are integrated into this latest security update. If you are not eligible for this update, you don’t get the alert or the new certificates either.
Phone
So, is your phone listening to you? "It is not," said Ari Paparo, an ad industry veteran, consultant and author. "I've been asked about this a million times. And I can guarantee you that your phone is not passively listening to you for advertising purposes." Paparo has been asked this before. "Oh, my whole family thinks it's true!" he laughed.
Gmail
Did your McLovin!1976!@gmail.com email address seem funny at the time but less so now you are applying for dozens of jobs? Google has said it is giving US users a chance to appear more professional by letting them change their Google account username- whatever appears before @gmail.com in an email address- without losing access to their account.
Tech
The time for tech has arrived. Start your sentence here, then you need to use the rest of the article by clicking to get it here.
Mars
Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may have potentially been made by ancient life, NASA announced Wednesday. The team has also published a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature about the new analysis, though they say further study is needed. “After a year of review, they have come back and they said, listen, we can’t find another explanation,” said Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy. “So this very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting.”
Sora
OpenAI is winding down Sora, the video generation app it launched to much fanfare last year that signaled a bigger push into creative tools and social media. OpenAI is shuttering the standalone app to focus on other priorities, the company said on Tuesday. “As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement.
iPhone
Apple has released iOS 26.4, along with a bunch of new iPhone features and eight new emoji. But the iOS 26.4 upgrade also comes with a warning to update your iPhone now, because it contains a whopping 37 fixes for security holes in the iOS software. Apple doesn’t provide much detail about what’s fixed in iOS 26.4, to allow as many users as possible to upgrade before attackers can get hold of the details.
Meta Lawsuit
A jury in Santa Fe on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties after finding the company misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangered children... The verdict, reached after a six-week trial, found Meta liable on both claims brought by the state under its Unfair Practices Act. At $5,000 per violation- the maximum allowed under the law- the penalty may seem paltry for a company valued at $1.5 trillion by public market investors. But the dollar amount isn’t as important as the fact that this is the first jury verdict of its kind against Meta over harm to young people.
Deaflympics
New technologies tested at the Deaflympics in Tokyo are creating new ways of experience the atmosphere at sporting events. Filming recently for BBC TechXplore, I learned that, at the Deaflympics, sound doesn't have to just be something you hear. It can be something you see. Something you feel. Sometimes, something you hold. For more than a century, the Deaflympics has been the pinnacle of elite competition for deaf athletes. Now, it is also one of the world's most important testing grounds for inclusive technology, where engineers, designers and deaf users collaborate to redefine how sport is experienced.
iPhone update
Amid reports of powerful spyware targeting iPhones, Apple is urging users to update their devices as soon as possible. On Wednesday, researchers said they had found malware that can get into and take information from iPhones. Reuters reported that researchers determined the malware, dubbed “DarkSword,” was impacting iPhone users with iOS versions 18.4 to 18.6.2 who had visited one of dozens of Ukrainian websites.
Tik Tok
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it. TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you, but some easy steps can keep you safe. TikTok keeps track of everything you do on its app- no surprises there. What's less obvious is how the company follows you around other parts of the internet that have nothing to do with TikTok. In fact, TikTok collects sensitive and potentially embarrassing information about you even if you've never used the app.
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