A Nature study extracts 11 proteins from six Homo erectus teeth found in China, revealing a shared amino acid variant with Denisovans now present in some Southeast Asian and Oceanian populations.
Locus Robotics buys Vancouver-based Nexera Robotics, adding NeuraGrasp's patented soft-membrane gripper to its Locus Array autonomous fulfillment system.
Overnight lobbying by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks persuaded President Trump to cancel a planned executive order that would have let federal agencies preview frontier AI models up to 90 days before release.
Einride and EASE Logistics will deploy two SAE Level 4 driverless electric trucks in Marysville, Ohio this summer, while the company pursues a $1.35 billion Nasdaq listing via SPAC and scales an Amazon electric fleet.
AWS released ExtendDB v0.1 on May 20, an Apache 2.0 adapter implementing the DynamoDB wire protocol on pluggable backends including PostgreSQL and Apache Cassandra, targeting local dev, CI/CD, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
After a six-month community process and unanimous vote, the PHP Group has retired the PHP License 3.01 and Zend Engine License in favor of the widely recognized BSD 3-Clause.
Google announced a downloadable edition of Cloud Spanner that runs on-premises, on rival clouds, or on a laptop, dismantling a dependency on proprietary infrastructure that its engineers once thought impossible to remove.
Scribe's ELXR platform silences PCSK9 in the liver without cutting DNA; a single low dose sustained LDL reductions for roughly 18 months in primates.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 22-0 to advance the GUARD Act, which would ban AI companion chatbots for users under 18 and impose penalties of up to $250,000 per violation.
Multikernel Technologies releases KernelScript, an Apache 2.0-licensed DSL that generates eBPF, userspace, and kernel module code from a single source file.
The CDC logged 1,952 measles cases through May 21, 2026 — on pace to surpass last year's high not seen since 1992 — as a Lancet study concludes four of seven elimination indicators have already been missed.
Modular ships Mojo v1.0.0b1 on May 7, 2026, deprecating the fn keyword, enabling default CPU bounds checking, and expanding GPU support to AMD MI250X and NVIDIA B300.