Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. The tech giant is also bringing Personal Intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing the AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a user’s Gmail and Google Calendar.
The…
The customer support industry has seen a massive influx of startups like Sierra, Decagon, and Parloa trying to infuse AI into automating customer calls, chat, and messages so companies can handle more queries at scale.
But according to Athens-based Omilia, which has been…
Scientists capture highest-resolution photos of the Sun’s surface ever, revealing “tiny engines” driving solar activity
August 7, 2026
Scientists have captured the highest-ever-resolution images of the surface of the Sun, with the pictures revealing a solar process that could be key to solving the “puzzle” of how the surface of the star generates heat.
Astrophysicists based at the National Science…
“Street photography begins with honesty. It doesn’t wait for perfection or performance. It asks us to notice what everyone else walked past,” explains Dimpy Bhalotia, Co-founder and Creative Director, Pure Street Photography.
Since its launch in 2020, the Pure Street Photography Awards have quickly become one of the world’s leading competitions dedicated exclusively to street photography.
If you’re an astrophotographer looking for an exciting and unique project, go get a calendar and put a ring around Wednesday, August 12, 2026. On that day — after lunch in North America and just before sunset in Western Europe — the sun will be eclipsed by the moon.
The FCC added foreign-made connected power inverters to its Covered List on July 28, cutting off the federal authorization new models need to be imported, marketed, or sold in the US.
It’s aimed at the radios inside modern inverters, not the power electronics. And it lands…
Toyota’s larger electric SUV starts at $45,380 and comes standard with a dual-motor all-wheel drive (AWD) system delivering a combined 375 hp.
2027 Toyota bZ Woodland prices and range by trim
Toyota announced prices for the 2027 Toyota bZ Woodland start at $45,380, or $80 more than last year’s model.
The bZ Woodland adds a rugged, more outdoorsy design compared to the standard bZ SUV. It’s…
BYD announced that prices for the Denza D9 will start at £75,000 ($101,000) in the UK, undercutting other luxury MPVs on the market.
BYD Denza D9 MPV prices and specs in the UK
The D9 is now on sale in the UK as Denza’s fourth vehicle, BYD’s luxury sub-brand, following…
The U.S. Air Force has committed $75 million to an initial production run of a jet-powered guided bomb that can fly more than 300 nautical miles, Boeing said Wednesday.
Boeing’s BSU-111/B Payload Delivery Unit is a wing-and-turbojet engine kit that converts a 500-pound…
Iran has made a concerted diplomatic push with Gulf states, warning them explicitly that Tehran will hit their oil, power and water plants unless they persuade Donald Trump to end U.S. strikes on Iran and instead seek a negotiated end to the war.
The warning envisaged attacks on the energy facilities, oil fields, refineries, electricity grids, water infrastructure, transport networks and other…
