Ben Sandofsky built one of the most respected camera apps on the iPhone. Now he’s in a courtroom battle that pits him against the person who helped him create it — and, indirectly, against the most powerful company in consumer technology. The co-founder of Halide, the premium manual camera app beloved by photography enthusiasts and […]

A team of astronomers has found something that shouldn’t exist — at least not according to prevailing models of how stars die. Deep inside a well-studied supernova remnant, researchers have identified a neutron star whose properties defy decades of theoretical predictions about post-explosion stellar evolution. The discovery, published in March 2026, is forcing astrophysicists to

Birds are weaving discarded cigarette butts into their nests. Not by accident. Not out of desperation. They’re doing it because the nicotine works. What began as an odd observation by field biologists over a decade ago has matured into one of the more fascinating case studies in urban animal behavior — a story about parasites,

Somewhere between the genuine desire to protect children online and the legislative text now moving through statehouses across America, something went badly wrong. A wave of age verification bills — in California, Illinois, Colorado, and beyond — has reframed child safety as an access control problem. The fix, according to lawmakers, is to force every

Somewhere in a British laboratory, a strain of ryegrass is being engineered to produce higher levels of lipids — fats, essentially — that could one day make beef cattle grow faster, produce more milk, and yield marbled steaks without any changes to the animals themselves. The UK government has just approved the first outdoor trial

Reddit is testing a feature that would use the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera — the same hardware that powers Face ID — to verify that a real human being is scrolling through its app. Not a bot. Not a script. A person, sitting there, actually looking at the screen. The feature, spotted in Reddit’s iOS app

Samsung is preparing to let you use your next Galaxy phone as a webcam. Not through some clunky workaround or third-party app, but natively — built right into the operating system. It’s the kind of feature that sounds minor until you think about what it actually means for the 200-million-plus people who carry a Galaxy

The Internet Archive, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has spent a quarter century preserving the web’s sprawling, chaotic history, is caught in a vise. On one side: publishers who’ve won legal victories restricting the organization’s lending practices. On the other: the very artificial intelligence companies those publishers claim to fear most. Caught in between is

The irony is almost too perfect. Trivy, the open-source vulnerability scanner built by Aqua Security and trusted by thousands of organizations to detect security flaws in their software supply chains, became the vector for a supply chain attack of its own. The compromise didn’t just plant malicious code in one place — it triggered a