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Google is rolling out a beta version that lets you listen to real-time translations on your headphones, the company announced Friday. The tech giant is also introducing advanced Gemini features to Google Translate, expanding the translation app’s language learning tools. Google says its new real-time headphone translation experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and rhythm intact, making it easier to understand conversations and know who’s saying what. This new feature essentially turns any headphone into a real-time, one-way translation device. “Whether you’re having a conversation in another language, listening to a speech or lecture abroad, or watching a TV show…
Step aside, the Bermuda Triangle: The North Atlantic’s newest mystery lies beneath this enigmatic archipelago. Scientists have discovered a strange rock formation 20 kilometers thick beneath the oceanic crust of Bermuda. This level of thickness has never been seen in other similar formations around the world.”Normally, you would expect the bottom of the ocean to be oceanic crust, and then the mantle,” said study lead author William Fraser, a seismologist at Carnegie Science in Washington, D.C. “But in Bermuda, there is another layer that lies below the crust within the tectonic plate that Bermuda sits on.”The origin of this layer…
Retro, the friend-centric photo-sharing app with nearly 1 million users, is adding a new feature that lets you time-travel through old photo memories from your phone’s camera roll. The app currently offers a way to share photos of what happened during your week with a private group of friends and create shared albums, but this latest addition, dubbed “Rewind,” will keep your photos visible only to you unless you choose to share them with others. Retro co-founder Nathan Sharp explains that the idea for Rewind was inspired by the popular features the app already offered. Today, at the end of…
Scientists have photographed a never-before-seen deep-sea squid burying itself upside down on the ocean floor. This behavior has never been recorded in cephalopods. They captured the strange sight while surveying the depths of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a deep-sea plain in the Pacific Ocean that is targeted for deep-sea mining.The researchers describe the encounter in a study published Nov. 25 in the journal Ecology, writing that the animal appears to be a species of undescribed whiplash squid. At a depth of approximately 13,450 feet (4,100 meters), the squid was almost entirely buried in sediment, hanging upside down with its siphon…
A company that makes photo booths is putting customers’ photos and videos online because of a simple flaw in the website where the files are stored, according to a security researcher. The researcher, known as Zeacer, alerted TechCrunch about the security issue in late November after reporting the vulnerability to Hama Film, a photo booth maker with franchises in Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, in October, but received no response. Zeacer shared with TechCrunch a sample photo taken from Hama Film’s servers that shows a group of apparently young people posing in a photo booth. In…
Self-driving cars are no longer confined to the realm of science fiction, thanks to companies like Waymo rolling out commercial robo-taxi services in multiple cities. And many automakers, large and small, are looking to bring the same level of self-driving capabilities to privately owned vehicles over the next few years. If this happens, what can personal AV do? Maybe you can send them to buy food or run errands — that’s what the company Autolane hopes to do. Or, if you’re Tesla CEO Elon Musk, owners might want to deploy their cars around the world, offering rides to others and…
More than 350,000 companies across Europe are expected to improve their energy efficiency. This year, the organizers of European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) are proud to introduce a new award category: the Small and Medium Enterprises Promoting Energy Efficiency Award. This award aims to celebrate the creativity and impact of small and medium-sized enterprises that develop business or financing models that accelerate the adoption of energy efficiency solutions in the EU. Through this award, EUUSEW aims to recognize small and medium-sized enterprises that are pioneering new approaches to making energy upgrades more accessible, affordable and scalable. The perfect finalist will…
Cybersecurity researchers have documented four new phishing kits named BlackForce, GhostFrame, InboxPrime AI, and Spiderman that can facilitate large-scale credential theft. First detected in August 2025, BlackForce is designed to steal credentials and perform Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) attacks to capture one-time passwords (OTPs) and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The kit is being sold on Telegram forums for between 200 euros ($234) and 300 euros ($351). According to Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Gladis Brinda R and Ashwathi Sasi, the kit has been used to impersonate more than 11 brands, including Disney, Netflix, DHL, and UPS. It is currently under active development. “BlackForce features…
In a move worthy of a post on its subreddit ‘Not Like The Other Girls’, Reddit, one of the world’s largest social platforms, claims it is different from other real social media sites as it seeks to overturn an Australian law that bans children under 16 from using social media. In a lawsuit filed in Australia’s Supreme Court, Reddit argues that the law, which came into effect on December 10, restricts free political discussion by banning children from expressing their opinions online and should be overturned. They argue that if the bill is not overturned, the company should be exempted…
Running out of space on your phone? Don’t upgrade your cloud storage subscription yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files, and other digital data can be stored on DNA strands fused to a 330-foot-long (100-meter) plastic strip that can hold the equivalent of 3 billion songs.This is a far cry from the device Microsoft developed in 2016, which managed to pack 200 megabytes of data into a small amount of DNA “much smaller than the tip of a pencil.”The new “tape” can also be fed into a cassette player-like reader that can scan the strip, identify selected…