Technology News for Tuesday 3rd June 2025

1. How AI deepens and bridges the digital divide

AI is becoming further embedded into our daily lives and shaping the way charities interact digitally. With AI developing at such speed, there's a risk that those people who are already digitally excluded, will be even more so.

2. ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover

RESILIENCE is the spacecraft element of ispace Mission 2 "SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon", the latest step in the company's lunar exploration programme. It launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral ...

3. Call of Duty Warzone's June patch introduces multiple fixes

For example, various crashes and stuttering issues were making fans' lives miserable. As a battle royale title, smooth gameplay is non-negotiable. But that wasn't the case with Warzone. There was even a bug that was allowing players to exploit even under ...

4. Wireless e-tattoos help manage mental workload

Tracking mental workload The e-tattoo combines adhesive electrodes with a flexible printed circuit module to provide stable and high-fidelity EEG/EOG measurements. (Courtesy: Device/Huh et al.).

5. Epigenetic editing expands the reach of gene therapy

Gene editing therapies are designed to be a one-and-done fix that cure a genetic disease and last a lifetime. Yet, they have some safety risks — chief among them the potential for off-target effects that permanently alter unrelated genes.

6. Immersive Virtual Reality-Biofeedback Shows Promise for Fibromyalgia Care in Pilot Study

TOPLINE: Immersive virtual reality combined with multisensor biofeedback (IVR-BF) demonstrated significant potential for alleviating chronic pain and improving quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia after five treatment sessions. METHODOLOGY:.

7. What to Know About the Nintendo Switch 2

Those not lucky enough to snag a preorder may be waiting in long lines this week if they want to play Mario Kart World.

8. Forecasting the future: How AI could help predict the next big hurricane

Noujoud Nader is a machine learning research scientist at LSU. She's part of a team working on a powerful forecasting tool known as the Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment, or CERA. It's an online, interactive platform that helps predict where flooding ...

9. Eptinezumab Shows Promise for Chronic Cluster Headache in Open-Label Trial

Eptinezumab, an intravenous monoclonal antibody approved for migraine prevention, was generally well tolerated in people with chronic cluster headache, according to a new open-label safety trial. Findings demonstrated a similar safety profile to prior ...

10. Apple and Google clash with police and MPs over phone thefts

Senior figures at Apple and Google have clashed with the police over its recommendations for how best to deal with phone theft in the UK. The Met's James Conway told the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - which is considering the ...

11. Game Studio Emptyvessel Raises Series A, Plans to Scale Team

Backed by a fresh injection of Series A funding, emptyvessel, an independent gaming studio based in Austin, has secured a total of $11 million in venture capital. The latest round's investors included NCSOFT and 1AM Gaming.

12. Deal of the Day: Apple's iPad Air (M3) is back at its lowest price ever

While I mostly use my iPad for relaxing and watching shows and videos on the couch, others use it as a total laptop replacement — NBC Select reporter Zoe Malin carried an iPad Pro, Apple Magic keyboard case and Apple Pencil to class back in her college ...

13. Bizarre Quantum Universe

In 2022 three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving something astonishing: the universe is not locally real. In other words, particles don't have fixed properties until they are measured. Although it seems to counter everything we ...

14. 3 Health Care Takeaways from Google I/O 2025

Could AGI Really Be Here in Five Years? Google's co-founder Sergey Brin and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared slightly different projections about whether artificial general intelligence (AGI) would arrive by 2030 or ...

15. Audio Publishers Association: US Audiobook Sales Reach $2.22 Billion

Digital audio accounted for 99 percent of 2024's US audiobook revenues, per newly released survey results. Image – Getty: Yuliia Kaveshnikova. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ...