(May 22, 2026) – AI, Science, and Tech Updates
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Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
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Last updated: May 22, 2026, 06:33 AM PHT
Last updated: May 22, 2026, 06:33 AM PHT
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1You can now add ChatGPT to PowerPoint
staff@engadget.com (Anna Washenko) — May 22, 2026, 06:27 AM PHT -
2When neighborhoods burn, the smoke carries more than soot
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT -
3Complexity isn't subjective—the right amount results in new material properties
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT -
4Gaze into the Crystal Ball Nebula and see the light emitted by a dying star 1,500 years ago
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT -
5Evolutionary arms race stretches hawkmoths and flowers to extremes
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT -
6Particle-by-particle tracking reveals uneven nanoparticle drug release
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 05:50 AM PHT -
7Widespread AI misuse forces higher education to rethink assessment
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 05:40 AM PHT -
8A new light-based sensor could help make ultrasensitive disease testing more portable
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 05:40 AM PHT -
9‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says
Maddy Varner — May 22, 2026, 05:35 AM PHT -
10Why promising CO₂-to-fuel catalysts keep falling short of copper
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 05:30 AM PHT -
11Waymo halts freeway rides after robotaxis struggle in construction zones
Sean O'Kane — May 22, 2026, 05:13 AM PHT -
12Multiplexed method reveals protein energy landscapes across 10 domain families
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 05:10 AM PHT -
13Starbucks abandons its AI inventory tool after only nine months
staff@engadget.com (Will Shanklin) — May 22, 2026, 05:06 AM PHT -
14Overpopulation can impair fertility. A new study explains why
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT -
15Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger — May 22, 2026, 04:44 AM PHT -
16Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World?
MIT Technology Review — May 22, 2026, 04:41 AM PHT -
17Financial inclusion not only results from economic growth, but may also drive it
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
18Faster gene screening method targets deadly fungus
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
19Q&A: The democracy lessons of Latin America's left
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT -
20Cell-by-cell sodium mapping reveals astrocytes are far less uniform than believed
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT -
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22Best Window Air Conditioners of 2026: Midea, Zafro, GE
Matthew Korfhage, Lisa Wood Shapiro — May 22, 2026, 04:17 AM PHT -
23All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI
The Verge — May 22, 2026, 04:15 AM PHT -
24Firefox is working on a rounded redesign with easy-to-find controls for privacy and AI
The Verge — May 22, 2026, 04:05 AM PHT -
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26In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
The Verge — May 22, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
27Study of Rwandan young adults highlights gaps in digital financial literacy
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
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29Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
Sarah Perez — May 22, 2026, 03:45 AM PHT -
30Coupled DNA nanopores control molecular traffic inside synthetic cell microreactors
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 03:40 AM PHT -
31Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — May 22, 2026, 03:33 AM PHT -
32Dual-atom fuel cell catalysts break single-peak rule, exposing two optima
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 03:20 AM PHT -
33Why digital literacy needs constant updates to help protect teens online
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 03:20 AM PHT -
34Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore
Amanda Silberling — May 22, 2026, 03:19 AM PHT -
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36A 0.12% parameter add-on gives AI agents the working memory RAG can't
bendee983@gmail.com (Ben Dickson) — May 22, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
37Why some antibiotics fail in the body—pH conditions can dramatically change how bacteria respond
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
38Polarized elections do not erode support for the basic principles of democracy, study suggests
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
39One of Meta’s big legal reckonings just ended in a settlement
The Verge — May 22, 2026, 02:54 AM PHT -
40Enterprise AI agents keep failing because they forget what they learned
taryn.plumb@venturebeat.com (Taryn Plumb) — May 22, 2026, 02:43 AM PHT -
41Central Asia's record-breaking ice loss in 2025 raises water risks for millions
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 02:40 AM PHT -
42Playing the entrepreneurial game can turn job loss into opportunity
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 02:40 AM PHT -
43Fertilizer: The forgotten history linking the agricultural commodity and empire in wartime
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 02:20 AM PHT -
44Musk's SpaceX bonus comes with unique condition: Colonize Mars
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — May 22, 2026, 02:05 AM PHT -
45This exoplanet weather forecast by the James Webb Space Telescope calls for sandy skies and a clear (alien) sunset
Keith Cooper — May 22, 2026, 02:01 AM PHT -
46Convective Capital raises an $85 million fund to build disaster resilience
Tim Fernholz — May 22, 2026, 01:41 AM PHT -
47Trump delays AI security executive order, saying language ‘could have been a blocker’
Rebecca Bellan — May 22, 2026, 01:30 AM PHT -
48Sonos’s pint-sized Roam 2 speaker is 25 percent off for Memorial Day
The Verge — May 22, 2026, 01:27 AM PHT -
49Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis
The Verge — May 22, 2026, 01:18 AM PHT -
50'Stop lying!' Conspiracy theorist confronts Artemis 2 astronauts, accuses them of faking their moon mission
mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) — May 22, 2026, 01:07 AM PHT -
51MFA verifies who logged in. It has no idea what they do next.
louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — May 22, 2026, 12:30 AM PHT -
52Americans can’t spot a deepfake, and that’s a business crisis, not just a consumer problem
VentureBeat — May 22, 2026, 12:30 AM PHT -
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54This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century
Dominic-Madori Davis — May 22, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT -
55Who is Embo, the enigmatic villain in 'The Mandalorian & Grogu'?
Fran Ruiz — May 22, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT -
56I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
Reece Rogers — May 21, 2026, 11:48 PM PHT -
57Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
Ivan Mehta — May 21, 2026, 11:27 PM PHT -
58Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement
Ivan Mehta — May 21, 2026, 11:26 PM PHT -
59Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not
Will Douglas Heaven — May 21, 2026, 10:30 PM PHT -
60Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
Sean O'Kane — May 21, 2026, 10:27 PM PHT -
61The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy
Julie Bort — May 21, 2026, 10:00 PM PHT -
62Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive ‘universal’ AI interface
Tim Fernholz — May 21, 2026, 10:00 PM PHT -
63Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app optimized for well-being, not engagement
Aisha Malik — May 21, 2026, 10:00 PM PHT -
64Google is pitching an AI agent ecosystem to consumers who may not buy it
Sarah Perez — May 21, 2026, 09:52 PM PHT -
65US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms
Joe Miller and Michael Peel, Financial Times — May 21, 2026, 09:48 PM PHT -
66Childhood junk food may rewire the brain for life
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 09:31 PM PHT -
67Popular GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic slash heart attack and stroke risk
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 09:02 PM PHT -
68Resolve AI says the AI coding boom is breaking production systems. It wants to fix that.
michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — May 21, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
69Kore.ai launches Artemis AI agent platform, takes on Salesforce and ServiceNow
michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — May 21, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
70Are you really going to talk to Gemini like that?
staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell) — May 21, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
71AI didn’t kill brand consistency — it made it mission-critical
VentureBeat — May 21, 2026, 08:48 PM PHT -
72Common pesticide linked to hidden brain damage, scientists warn
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 08:27 PM PHT -
73The Download: online safety’s future and climate tech’s big pivot
Thomas Macaulay — May 21, 2026, 08:10 PM PHT -
74NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS reveals its most complete look at the night sky yet
Robert Lea — May 21, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
755 Best Android Tablets in 2026: OnePlus, Lenovo, and Pixel Compared
Scott Gilbertson — May 21, 2026, 07:33 PM PHT -
76Scientists discover strange “narwhal” waves that trap light beyond known limits
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 07:22 PM PHT -
77The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces
Wetour Robotics — May 21, 2026, 06:00 PM PHT -
78SEM-Guided Low-kV FIB Finishing for Leading-Edge Semiconductor Failure Analysis
Zeiss — May 21, 2026, 06:00 PM PHT -
79The Department of Labor’s Faith Leader Is Now Also in Charge of Its Civil Rights Enforcement
Vittoria Elliott — May 21, 2026, 05:30 PM PHT -
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81A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman — May 21, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
82Jupiter’s lightning may be 100x more powerful than Earth’s
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 02:46 PM PHT -
83Scientists discover the nutrient that can supercharge cellular energy
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 01:34 PM PHT -
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85MIT scientists discover amino acid that helps the gut heal itself
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 12:40 PM PHT -
86UNESCO warns a tsunami in the Mediterranean is inevitable
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 11:14 AM PHT -
87Scientists solve 320-million-year mystery of reptile bone armor
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 10:48 AM PHT -
88New quantum sensor could count individual photons and hunt dark matter
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — May 21, 2026, 10:42 AM PHT -
89SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave — May 21, 2026, 08:43 AM PHT -
90SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
Paresh Dave — May 21, 2026, 07:30 AM PHT