After trundling around the Jezero crater for 550 Martian days, NASA’s Perseverance rover has amassed nearly half its planned rock collection—including some containing organic molecules, a possible sign that life could have thrived there more than 3 billion years ago. These are compounds that contain carbon, and often hydrogen... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Microsoft Teams is perhaps the biggest enterprise communication platform in the world. It rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as a key space for enterprise users to... Read more

Researchers believe hackers with connections to the North Korean government have been pushing a Trojanized version of the PuTTY networking utility in an attempt to backdoor the network of organizations they want to spy on. Researchers from security firm Mandiant said on Thursday that at least one customer it... Read more

Prime Video‘s list of fantasy movies is relatively sparse — but it does have arguably the biggest name in the genre, Lord of the Rings. That means you can catch up on Peter Jackson’s classic Middle-earth movies in time for Amazon’s new megabucks prequel TV series The Rings of Power.... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Closing deals and signing agreements in a face-to-face meeting seem almost quaint. Soon, they will likely be a thing of the past, replaced by digital agreements and document... Read more

Enlarge / An image of the “Have I Been Trained?” website featuring a search for one of its creators, Holly Herndon. In response to controversy over image synthesis models learning from artists’ images scraped from the Internet without consent—and potentially replicating their artistic styles—a group of artists has released... Read more

Smart locks might not have made any substantial advancements to the actual mechanics of a deadbolt, but they’ve certainly changed the way we interact with them. With motorized deadbolts and built-in connectivity with your home network or phone, smart locks allow you to lock and unlock your door remotely using... Read more

Almost 10 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain has been affected by the Russian invasion, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery. One in six of Ukraine’s grain storage facilities— which have a total capacity of 58 million metric tons—have been impacted by the conflict, either through damage,... Read more

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Register today. Mythical Games launched its Blankos Block Party on the Epic Games Store, making it the first Web3 game to launch on the... Read more

Enlarge / Still from a demo video showing ACT-1 performing a search on Redfin.com in a browser when asked to “find me a house.” Adept Yesterday, California-based AI firm Adept announced Action Transformer (ACT-1), an AI model that can perform actions in software like a human assistant when given... Read more