The little creature staring back from Meta’s new artificial-intelligence product looks as if it belongs in a children’s cartoon. That is part of the point. Muse, Meta’s new personal AI agent, is desig...

So when a country with no reported Ebola cases finds itself debating whether to host a foreign quarantine facility for an outbreak elsewhere

A new artificial intelligence system designed to detect extremely rare sperm cells in laboratory samples is offering renewed possibilities for men previously diagnosed with severe infertility, while also raising questions about how far algorithm-driven diagnostics can go in reproductive medicine and how quickly such tools can be scaled beyond specialist clinics. The technology, developed by researchers at Columbia University, is built to address one of the most difficult challenges in fertility treatment: azoospermia, a condition in which no sperm is detectable in a man’s ejaculate using conventional laboratory methods. In many cases, sperm may still be present in extremely small numbers, but scattered so sparsely that they are effectively invisible under standard microscopic examination.

A man exhuming his sister’s body and carrying her skeletal remains to a rural bank in eastern India has set off a national outcry, exposing the brittle intersection of bureaucracy and poverty that shapes access to money for millions. The man, Jitu Munda, 52, arrived at a branch of Odisha Grameen Bank in Keonjhar district this week with a sack containing the remains of his sister, Kalara, who had died months earlier. A video of the moment, widely shared across India, shows him placing the bundle outside the bank’s entrance, an act he later described as born of mounting frustration.

According to complaints submitted to the FBI's Internet crime complaint center (IC3), victims across the San Francisco Division’s territory have lost more than $40 million to romance scams. Bitdefender data shows between early January and early February 2026, 4 in 10 spam emails were tied to love scams. The U.S is the most targeted country, accounting for 55% of all detected Valentine’s themed spam.

Using AI to craft love messages may save time, but it comes at a cost. A new study finds that even perfectly written AI notes are judged as lazy and less sincere, signaling to recipients that the sender didn’t invest effort or thought into the gesture. People notice when shortcuts are taken, and using AI for personal communications like love letters, apologies, or wedding vows can make senders appear less caring, less trustworthy, and emotionally distant, no matter how polished the words seem…

A skin-worn sensor that detects toxic ammonia could transform workplace safety and environmental monitoring, offering real-time alerts and noninvasive health screening while remaining reliable under real-world conditions In a development that could reshape industrial safety and environmental monitoring, researchers at Hanbat National University in South Korea have unveiled a wearable sensor capable of detecting dangerous levels of ammonia gas both visually and electronically.