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Google is pairing up two of its research products: NotebookLM and Gemini’s agentic AI tool Deep Research. On Thursday, the company announced that all users will have access to Deep Research in NotebookLM within a week.Now, NotebookLM users will be able to direct a question to Deep Research and choose between two research styles: fast or deep. The fast research style will “rapidly” look for information, while the deep style will do “in-depth analysis to find high-quality sources,” Google says. Users will get a research plan before the research begins using either style.If you choose to go deep with Deep Research, you’ll be able to add more sources as the report generates in the background. Google’s blog says this will help “you assemble a rich knowledge base on any topic without leaving you...

Mars-Bound Science Satellites Launched On New Glenn | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content Irene Klotz November 13, 2025 ...

When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve’s new Steam Frame VR headset, I was blown away; thanks to the Frame’s dedicated wireless adapter and a cool trick Valve calls “foveated streaming,” I didn’t detect any latency as I explored an industrial building and fought some head crabs.But the Frame also has an Arm chip inside, meaning it can run games locally. While I didn’t get to test playing Half-Life: Alyx that way, based on comments Valve gave to other publications, it seems like Valve is optimistic that it might be able to make the game run well when played standalone.“Half-Life: Alyx is a great experience when streamed from a PC to Steam Frame, and we are looking into making it a good standalone experience as well,” Valve told Digital Foundry. And according to UploadVR, ...

Mike Gordon, photo by Rene Huemer Yesterday, Phish bassist Mike Gordon appeared on WNYC’s Science Friday podcast to discuss flow state and the research into it that he’s funding with Dr. Greg Appelbaum. In conversation with host Flora Lichtman, the artist and his collaborator delve into their understanding of the mythicized level of clarity and the work they’ve done to approach it. With 40 years of musical experience guiding his reflections, Gordon speaks with confidence and candor on the feeling he chases night after night on stage. A significant portion of the episode is devoted to the bassist’s attempts to describe the intangible flow state, which offers some enlightening insight into his thought process while performing. He finds that the phrase he generally uses with his Phish b...

Google recently decided that the freedom afforded by Android was a bit too much and announced developer verification, a system that will require developers outside the Google Play platform to register with Google. Users and developers didn’t accept Google’s rationale and have been complaining loudly. As Google begins early access testing, it has conceded that “experienced users” should have an escape hatch. According to Google, online scam and malware campaigns are getting more aggressive, and there’s real harm being done in spite of the platform’s sideloading scare screens. Google says it’s common for scammers to use social engineering to create a false sense of urgency, prompting users to bypass Android’s built-in protections to install malicious apps. Google’s solution to this problem, ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) twin spacecraft have deployed from the Blue Origin New Glenn second stage. The spacecraft will go into a kidney bean-shaped Earth-proximity phase lasting roughly a year, before initiating a trans-Mars Injection engine burn sometime in November 2026. The speed gained ahead of the burn will allow the spacecraft to take advantage of the Oberth Effect — a phenomenon describing how a rocket engine is more efficient when fired at high speeds — to send the spacecraft on their way to Mars.  The ESCAPADE spacecraft will arrive at Mars in September 2027 and be placed in a large capture orbit. Mission teams will then reduce and synchronize the spacecrafts’ orbits ahead of beginning the science mission, which will start in Sprin...

While it’s still not widely available, the Google TV homescreen redesign is rolling out to more users. Here’s a closer look at what’s changed. We first reported on a redesign to the Google TV homescreen in September, with the update primarily being focused on new navigation and some reorganization. The update was officially acknowledged by Google, but it’s yet to be widely rolled out. There have been reports here or there, but it did just appear on two of our Google TV Streamers. The Google TV homescreen redesign, as mentioned, is mainly a reorganization. The top bar now shows fewer tabs, limiting itself ot just “Home,” “Live,” and “Apps.” The navigation bar also has icons for search, screensaver, and quick settings. ...

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Even though the iPhone 17 Pro just recently launched, Apple is already finalizing many of the key details of next year’s iPhone 18 Pro, and recent leaks highlight two user wishes that might be addressed by the new model. #1: Fixing the two-tone rear color design Among the flurry of recent iPhone 18 Pro-related rumors, one I’ve personally been very excited by is news of a design change coming to the back of the device. iPhone 17 Pro uses a two-tone color scheme, with the aluminum finish differing from the glass cutout. Some users seem to like the unique look, and I suspect plenty are indifferent. But I’m in the camp of those who find it off-putting. When early leaks of the 17 Pro showed similar two-tone designs, I instantly wrote it off as ugly and in no way reflective o...

The Department of Energy is in the planning stages for a public-private consortium that will pull together scientific data across its national laboratories to train “self-improving” artificial intelligence models. In a request for information published Thursday, the DOE said these models — to be used for science and engineering — will be made available through the consortium, via cloud technologies, to the U.S. government, academia and private-sector programs. “This historic mobilization of DOE, the National Laboratories, and private partners will serve as a force multiplier in executing America’s AI Action Plan to achieve global dominance in AI, and to advance scientific discovery, energy, and national security,” the RFI stated. Released in July, the Trump administration’s AI Act...