Cold therapy may be worse than doing nothing for post-exercise recovery

Cold therapy is a popular intervention after rigorous exercise, like marathons, to relieve soreness and dampen the inflammation that can impair muscle recovery. But in a new study, adults who had ice baths after intense…

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Apple’s CEO presses Federighi to speed up AI, Bloomberg reports

Ternus wants Apple to move beyond improving Siri. According to the report, he held a closed-door meeting with Federighi in recent weeks. Ternus is frustrated by what he sees as Apple’s reluctance to match its rivals’…

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Google lets developers add Maps to AI Studio apps for free

Production apps still need a paid Cloud billing account, but the same key and code keep working. Developers can now add Google Maps to apps they build in Google AI Studio without leaving it, Google said on Monday . AI…

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Nominal raises $240M at $3B, tripling its value since March

That is triple its valuation in March. Back then, Nominal raised $80M at $1B in a round led by Founders Fund. Nominal told Paayal Zaveri at Bloomberg that its revenue has more than tripled so far this year. Bloomberg…

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How does Google Wallet's notification feed work and can you disable it?

If you've looked over the pros and cons of digital wallets and settled on Google's Wallet app, you'll be happy to know an update has dropped for the platform. This update, which began to roll out in October 2026…

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Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny

The revelation that he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy threatens to complicate that argument. The Financial Times reported Friday on Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive at Megaspeed, an…

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Workers feel pressure to use AI and show off to bosses — even when it slows them down

This comes as two in three (63%) workers say their employers now actively encourage or expect AI use for at least some tasks, with as many as 39% even highlighting their AI use to managers despite believing it didn't…

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RCS broke my Google Messages; these fixes got it working again

That's enough for me to label text messages ancient. Add Android Police on Google Add as Preferred Source I ditched text messaging a long time ago, and I haven't looked back since. I use RCS in Google Messages every day…

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Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

In its release, Meta said Ember was “designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing.” Meta particularly emphasized…

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A true paleo diet would include a lot more insects

In 2024, Sabrina Carpenter released Espresso and suddenly she was having a moment. Right now, the cast of Celebrity Traitors are all having a collective moment. For much of the 21st century, entomophagy – the eating of…

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