Google I/O 2026 schedule hints at where the company is focusing next

The Google I/O 2026 schedule is now live, with keynote times, overviews of each session, and a whole lot of AI.
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Sappers - The Viet Cong commandos who cut through US bases at night

North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sapper units were trained to infiltrate fortified positions, cut wire, plant explosives, and ...
Forbes

Akai Professional’s MPC Sample Is A New Way To Make Beats Almost Anywhere

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. You shall have music wherever you go. The new MPC Sample is a fully portable devices for ...
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Google announces it is shutting down Firebase Studio, less than a year after its launch; read the message to users

Google has announced to shut down its Firebase Studio on March 22, 2027. The decision to pull the plug on the platform comes almost a year after its launch. To recall, the tech giant introduced ...
Ars Technica

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...
Scientific American

Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.
Vogue

Are Sample Sales Good for Brands?

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...
Wall Street Journal

The Charlie Kirk Example

The sickest aspect of Wednesday’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is that it was everything he always warned about, the very thing that motivated his many debates and catapulted ...
ZDNet

I tried Google's new agentic IDE, and it blows away the popular VS Code - here's how

For the longest time, Microsoft's VS Code has been one of the most popular IDEs (Integrated Developer Environment) on the market. It's free to use and includes all the features developers need to get ...
TechCrunch

Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers

Google has suspended the account of phone surveillance operator Catwatchful, which was using the tech giant’s servers to host and operate the monitoring software. Google’s move to shut down the ...
Business Wire

Most Companies Unprepared for Google’s Eminent Firebase Dynamic Link Shutdown, New Study Finds

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new industry survey released today by URLgenius reveals a critical disconnect: while awareness of Google’s impending shutdown of Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) is high, ...