Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected

There are four virus strains known to cause Ebola disease in humans, and three have caused large outbreaks (Zaire, Sudan, and Bundibugyo). The most common strain is Zaire, for which treatments and vaccines have been developed. The viruses spill over from animals, including non-human primates and bats, and cause severe hemorrhagic fever, marked by diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. Person-to-person spread occurs via contact with bodily fluids and symptoms can develop between two and 21 days—though most often eight to 10 days—after an exposure.

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Every Pokémon Is Someone’s Favorite And Now There’s Proof

There are over a thousand different Pokémon, and not all of them are bangers. Some of them have designs that might make you recoil, while others are just plain uninteresting. How often do you think about, say, Dewpider? or Seaking? Have you considered the humble Taillow lately? Well, let’s all stop being such judgmental snobs, because it turns out every…

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The iPhone 18 Pro is unlocking a privacy weapon your iPhone 17 Pro can’t touch

The iPhone 18 Pro was already shaping up to be a meaningful upgrade thanks to Apple's in-house C2 modem, which promises faster 5G, mmWave support, and better battery life. But a new report just surfaced another perk that nobody was really talking about, and it might be the most underrated reason to upgrade this fall. A privacy feature most iPhone users can't actually use yet…

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Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

Altman and Brockman were not present when the verdict came in, the NYT reported. However, there were “a few smiles from the OpenAI side of the room,” with OpenAI attorney William Savitt wearing “a wide grin,” the NYT reported. Savitt spent days grilling Musk on the stand, seemingly taking advantage of his prior experience as Musk’s lawyer to get under Musk’s skin.

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Everyone Should Get To Hear Chrono Trigger Music Played By A Symphony

On Saturday, I went to the Music of Square Enix orchestra concert in Seattle as a capper on an extremely good week-long vacation. The concert was pretty good, and it was mainly because they played “Megalomania” from Live A Live as the capper to the first half of it, and also because I got to get pretend-mad that there was no…

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Hidden text reveals that RCS video calls for Google Messages is in the works

Back in March, before the "madness" was over, we told you that RCS Universal Profile 4.0 had been introduced. RCS, as you probably know, stands for Rich Communication Services, and is the next generation of messaging that replaces SMS (Short Message Service). What RCS does that SMS doesn't RCS runs over cellular networks and Wi-Fi, and if you've ever noticed the poor quality of images and video that you've received via MMS and SMS, you will appreciate the higher quality of the photography sent using RCS.

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One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

“We were a relatively loud voice on MSR, because we just saw a program and a capability that could be solved,” Beck said in his recent interview with Ars. “The cost estimates for MSR, and all the rest of it, was just nuts. I think anybody knows that I have a bit of a soft spot for planetary sciences. So with MSR, I just saw a whole bunch of Nobel Prizes sitting on the surface there, and it was just criminal not to bring them home.

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This Upcoming Stealth Game Wants To Show You A Beautiful Palestine

When you imagine Palestine, what does it look like in your mind? Does it look like the photographs we see in the news all the time? Do you see abandoned buildings and piles of rubble? Rocky, barren land? Exhausted individuals standing in long lines for humanitarian aid? The injured, the sick? The dead?   Or could you imagine a different Palestine, one with lush gardens and flowering trees?

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RedMagic just dropped its anniversary phone with a battery you won’t see on any Galaxy or iPhone

Gaming phones were supposed to be dying out. Then RedMagic showed up with an 8,000 mAh battery, an overclocked Snapdragon, and a transparent back that makes every other flagship look boring. What RedMagic just announced The RedMagic 11S Pro series is now official in China, and the spec sheet is wild in the best way possible. The launch lands on the brand's eighth anniversary, and according to the official press release, it is a mid-gen refresh of last year's RedMagic 11 Pro, which we called one of the coolest phones we've ever tested, both literally and metaphorically.There are three variants in play.

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Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo’s grave for decades

A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the Barkindji language) in a mound of shells. Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what’s now New South Wales, Australia. They found that the Barkindji ancestors had buried the dingo with the same care and ceremony as any beloved human member of the community and looked after the grave for centuries.

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Tom Kane, Star Wars And Voice Acting Legend, Has Died At 64

Tom Kane, a prolific voice actor in video games and animation, has died at 64. Galactic Productions, a talent agency that helps book actors and more for convention appearances, posted about Kane’s passing on its Facebook page with a tribute to his work, though it doesn’t get into specifics about his passing. Kane was publicly dealing with health troubles following a stroke in 2020, which left him unable to speak, leading to his retirement from voice acting.

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Apple just locked in WWDC 2026 with media invites and schedule now official

Apple just made it official. The Cupertino company sent media invites today, formally confirming that WWDC 2026 kicks off Monday, June 8, with the keynote streaming at 10 a.m. PDT. Based on everything leaking out of Cupertino lately, this is the most loaded WWDC in years. What Apple just confirmed According to Apple's official press release, the event runs June 8 through 12, with the keynote and Platforms State of the Union happening on day one.

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BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive

BMW M’s next major work will be next year’s all-electric quad-motor M3, derived from the Neue Klasse i3. And we can’t imagine there’s a three-pedal version of that one in the works, sadly. The M3 I really want In BMW’s briefing materials for the M3 CS Handschalter, it notes that the 3.0 L S58 engine is also used, in modified form, in the BMW M4 GT3 Evo that won the Rolex 24 at Daytona this year.

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D4vd’s Arcane Song Is Disappearing From Streaming After Arrest

David “D4vd” Burke was arrested in April in the investigation of the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a California teen whose body was found in an impounded Tesla belonging to the pop singer back in September. Burke’s music has been featured in projects like Fortnite, and as the case goes to trial in June, companies that collaborated with the singer are figuring out how to handle having his music in said projects.

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Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Elon Musk suffered the worst defeat possible in his legal battle against OpenAI as a federal jury and a judge ruled he waited too long to bring his claims against the AI startup and its top executives, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. The jury’s decision was a nonbinding recommendation sent to US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, though she immediately accepted it on Monday as her own, making it final.

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The aluminum iPhone 17 Pro dents easily, so Apple has another replacement in mind

Titanium, though it felt great, led to overheating problems for the iPhone. Apple had to switch to aluminum with the iPhone 17 to mitigate that problem, but that meant that the phones now dented very easily from the smallest of drops. A solution is in the works Fortunately, the company is reportedly actively looking for a solution instead of ignoring the issue.

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Sony Raising Monthly PS Price To $11 For First Time In Years

The monthly price of PS Plus Essential has been $10 for a long time, but no longer. Sony announced it’s going up to $11 a month due to “ongoing market conditions.” The price hikes follow recent increases to PS5 console prices as AI-fueled part shortages drive up costs. “Starting May 20, PlayStation Plus prices for new customers will increase in select regions.

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Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)

When Windows 11 launched in 2021, we mostly liked its refreshed look—the rounded corners and menus with just a hint of translucency were a nice change from the flat colors and hard corners of the Windows 8/10 era. But its reformulated taskbar and Start menu came with a number of functional regressions from the versions in Windows 10. Some of these were addressed quickly; others continue to linger.

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Amazon’s $150 discount makes the Galaxy S25 FE the hottest flagship-killer on the block

The Galaxy S FE series is the perfect choice if you want flagship specs at a way more budget-friendly price. And right now, you can score a brand-new Galaxy S25 FE at an even lower cost—if you hurry up, that is.Amazon is offering a hefty $150 discount on the model with 128GB of storage, dropping the one in Navy to just under $500.

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Players Sue Sony Over PS5 Tariff ‘Windfall’

It’s starting to feel like a new Sony lawsuit is dropping every other week. The latest is a class action complaint filed against PlayStation 5 maker Sony in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. It accuses the company of “retention of a substantial windfall generated by unlawful tariffs imposed by the federal government under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.”

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A Danish Couple’s Maverick African Research Finds Its Moment in RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy

In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane named Peter Aaby, had spent nearly two decades collecting data on 100,000 people living in the mud brick homes of the West African country’s capital. Aaby and his partner, Christine Stabell Benn, believed that the years of research in the impoverished country had yielded a major discovery about vaccines—and what they described as “non-specific effects”: The measles and tuberculosis vaccines, which were derived from live, weakened viruses and bacteria, they said, boosted child survival beyond protecting against those particular pathogens.

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Sony Xperia 1 VIII vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: Sample Photos Comparison

The new Galaxy S26 Ultra aims to take the top spot in the camera space with faster apertures for the main and telephoto cameras. However, Samsung has not made any upgrades to the hardware beyond that, and most importantly, it hasn't upgraded the sensor sizes, probably the most decisive factor for image quality. In comparison, we have camera masters Sony with the latest Xperia 1 VIII.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi Approves Of Viral AI FF6 Remake Video

High-fidelity fan videos gesturing at what a Final Fantasy VI remake could look like are nothing new. What is new is that generative AI has made it easier than ever to bring those fever dreams to life and make them spread like wildfire across people’s feeds. The latest example imagines the classic SNES RPG in the style of the recent…

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I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

What my mom lacks in healthy legs, she makes up for in a Claude Pro subscription. Having needled her repeatedly over the past couple years about AI’s environmental, political, and economic implications, I brushed all that aside on a recent Sunday and drove to her house. After a little tibia talk, I opened her computer and began emitting vibes. I’d like to create a communally shared app that gathers and shares information related to how much time and energy we devote to fighting burdensome administrative tasks, bureaucratic sludge, Kafka-esque unsubscribe mazes, byzantine insurance portals, wrongful charges, denied claims, confusing membership plans, and the like.

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Remember when the iPhone and MacBook were laughably outdated? Apple Intelligence reminds me of that

Apple is still struggling to get Apple Intelligence up to the levels that were promised back in 2024. We’re finally going to see some progress next month with the announcement of the new Siri app for iPhone, but even then Siri will be in Beta according to one report.Apple insider Mark Gurman believes that Apple Intelligence is two or three years behind its competitors.

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Ex-Google CEO Glazes AI In Graduation Speech To Crowd Of Boos

We’ve already had at least one college graduation speaker’s comments about the AI revolution be met with roaring boos from the crowd this month. Now famous ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has done it as well, getting drowned out by recent college graduates as he tries to lecture them on the promise of artificial intelligence.  The gist of Schmidt’s speech, delivered at the University of Arizona’s spring semester graduation on Sunday, was that while the fear of AI replacing jobs and threatening the environment is “rational,” if you get on board with it and help “shape” it, you’ll be one of the winners and set yourself up for success in the future. 

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The Catastrophic Swatch x Audemars Piguet Launch Was Entirely Predictable and Utterly Avoidable

The note from the communications team then, quite remarkably, lists some stats in an attempt to paint the launch in a positive light, as opposed the retail bin-fire it seemingly was: “We have received millions of clicks on our website. This new collaboration is literally making social media explode, with over 6 billion views within one week; by now, it is already 11 billion.

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Galaxy S27 Ultra, iPhone 18 Pro sigh in relief as this phone camera monster is apparently cancelled

Last year, we traveled to the future with the Xiaomi concept phone that you see in the thumbnail picture above. It is what it appears to be – a huge camera system that's attached to a phone and offers physically larger sensors and optics. Software tricks like computational photography are great but can only do so much. Big sensors and big elements in a lens are still unsurpassed in terms of sheer quality.

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GTA 6 Was Supposed To Be Out As Early As May 2025

There’s another world where Grand Theft Auto 6 has already been out for nearly a year. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick referenced that alternate timeline in a recent interview looking back at his career, in which he confirmed that Rockstar Games’ latest sequel was at one point supposed to come out 18 months before its current release date. “I think we’re about 18 months behind the original date,” he told podcaster David Senra in a video published over the weekend.

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How to Watch Google I/O

Google I/O is imminent. This is the annual developer event and product showcase where Google shows off all the shiny new updates to its Android operating system and other platforms, as well as new features and improvements to its artificial intelligence models. The big announcements at Google I/O usually come in the form of a livestreamed keynote event at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, hosted by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

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