Yesterday's Top Technology News

1. Apple expands accessibility with braille note taker, Vision Pro upgrades and more

Apple AAPL.O said on Tuesday it is bringing a host of new features later this year that are geared towards making its devices more accessible, including a braille note taker and expanded 'zoom' for its mixed-reality headsets, Vision Pro.

2. NextSpace Testrig to derisk 3D-printing in space

Space manufacturing aims to transform how objects and materials are sent into orbit. Several experiments have already sent prototype 3D printers into orbit and metal parts have been 3D-printed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

3. Glasgow NextSpace facility to test 3D printed space materials

The NextSpace Testrig addresses critical safety concerns about space manufacturing technologies that could create dangerous debris if not properly tested. The basement facility at the University of Glasgow's ames ...

4. DOOM: The Dark Ages Accessibility Guide

This guide outlines accessibility and other gameplay customization options available, including combat difficulty presets, text size scaling options (for UI, HUD, and subtitles), extensive controls remapping, high contrast mode to help enemies stand out ...

5. What's New in Microsoft 365 — May 2025

Microsoft Teams now has a new feature that makes it easier to manage incoming calls without interrupting your work. When someone calls you in Teams, the notification appears in a small pop-up window instead of taking over your entire screen.

6. Australian polar adventurer turned astronaut Eric Philips takes part in historic SpaceX mission

Sitting under the night sky at Eric Philips' home in Victoria's high country, it is hard not to feel close to the cosmos. "The stars are always alluring and the place of dreams, right?" he said. "If anywhere you can let your imagination run wild it's ...

7. Apple probes next frontier with new brain implant standard. But what it really needs is to sell more iPhones

Apple CEO Tim Cook. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Apple showcased its latest sci-fi vision on Tuesday by announcing that ...

8. Google DeepMind's new AI uses large language models to crack real-world problems

“You can see it as a sort of super coding agent,” says Pushmeet Kohli, a vice president at Google DeepMind who leads its AI for Science teams. “It doesn't just propose a piece of code or an edit, it actually produces a result that maybe nobody was aware of ...

9. Call of Duty Got Your Six Event: Here's start and end date, timings, duration and leaked rewards

It ends on May 29, the same day Season 4 updates arrive for Black Ops 6 and Warzone. The event includes new rewards, and players can complete challenges or tasks to unlock them.

10. Microsoft U-turns on Windows 10 support

The company had already confirmed plans to continue updating Windows Defender malware definitions "at least" until October 2028. Despite the softening of Microsoft's stance on security updates and bug fixes, the updated article remains a ...

11. MediaTek Dimensity 9400e chip launched for flagship smartphones- What's new?

MediaTek Dimensity 9400e has been officially announced, with the OnePlus Ace 5 series to be the first smartphone with this new chip. MediaTek has launched a new flagship mobile processor, the Dimensity 9400e, which surpasses the capabilities of ...

12. Five Things You Can Do with DOOM: The Dark Ages' Saw Shield

A rounded shield studded with razor-sharp blades, the Shield Saw introduces new techniques that allow the Slayer to mow down massive battlefields of demons like never before. Sure, blocking oncoming damage is ...

13. All New Lenovo ThinkStation PGX — Big AI Innovation in a Small Form Factor

Lenovo today announced the ThinkStation PGX, a compact, personal AI developer workstation. The ThinkStation PGX is ideal for AI researchers and developers, data scientists, practitioners, students, and application engineers who need a purpose ...

14. Pokémon Fossil Museum to Debut in North America at Chicago's Field Museum

During your visit, you'll see vibrant Pokémon models side by side with extinct lifeforms from the Field Museum's collection—including scientific casts of Field Museum dinosaurs like SUE the T. rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx next to Fossil Pokémon like ...

15. Could AI Agents Be Coming for Chrome, Safari, and How We Surf the Web?

Several leading AI companies are developing next-generation AI systems and browser interfaces that challenge the dominance of Google-style web access by delivering direct, personalized answers instead of lists of links. Instead of clicking through tabs ...

16. Deploying a practical solution to space debris

A team co-led by MIT Associate Professor Danielle Wood's Space Enabled research group has developed and launched the Space Sustainability Rating (SSR), a system for scoring space mission operators on their launch and de-orbit plans, collision-avoidance ...

17. Q&A: A generative AI technique for designing RNA with improved function

In this Q&A, Dr. Alex Green, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at BU, discusses the power of sequence and structure of RNA molecules (SANDSTORM) and Generative Adversarial RNA Design Networks (GARDN) as new tools in developing diagnostic and ...

18. VIDEO: Australian astronaut didn't expect space to 'affect me so emotionally'

Space flight has been revolutionised by private companies rocketing amateur astronauts into outer space. Earlier this year Australian Eric Philips was gifted one of these out-of-this-world opportunities. 7.30's Mike Lorigan reports.