Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
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Last updated: April 17, 2026, 06:58 AM PHT
Last updated: April 17, 2026, 06:58 AM PHT
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#1Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is officially leaving the company
The Verge — April 17, 2026, 06:44 AM PHT
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#2Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises
Marina Temkin — April 17, 2026, 06:55 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#3Chatbots show political bias and steer voters toward some parties, analysis finds
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#4Novel technique drills more detail into ice core records
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 06:30 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#5Quantum bottleneck breaks wide open as one light beam carries 23 secure channels at the same time
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 06:30 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#6Gene discovery opens new path for disease-resistant rice breeding
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 06:10 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#7Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#8Automated AI system flags qubit drift and instability, speeding quantum calibration
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#9Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project
Rebecca Bellan — April 17, 2026, 05:58 AM PHT
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#10Landing astronauts on the moon 'is absolutely doable, and it's doable soon,' NASA's Artemis 2 commander says
jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner) — April 17, 2026, 05:53 AM PHT
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#11Confirming altermagnetism in an abundant mineral
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 05:50 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#12Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board
Lucas Ropek — April 17, 2026, 05:22 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#13Extensive faults beneath Nevada nuclear lab raise unanswered earthquake risks
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT
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#14OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
John Timmer — April 17, 2026, 05:17 AM PHT
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#15Closing the carbon cycle: Unraveling the roles of light and heat in CO₂ photocatalysis
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT
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#16LiDAR maps medieval castle terrain and flags landslide-prone slopes in Japan
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#17Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its entire platform into infrastructure for AI agents
michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — April 17, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#18eROSITA disentangles the solar system's X-ray glow from deep-space signals
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 04:50 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#19Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
Kyle Orland — April 17, 2026, 04:43 AM PHT
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#20Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report
Dominic-Madori Davis — April 17, 2026, 04:41 AM PHT
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#21Sex pheromone of a sandgrain-sized insect deciphered
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#22Gucci-branded Google smart glasses are coming next year
The Verge — April 17, 2026, 04:31 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#23Netflix embraces vertical video with major mobile app update
The Verge — April 17, 2026, 04:29 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#24Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught
Connie Loizos — April 17, 2026, 04:26 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#25Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac
Igor Bonifacic — April 17, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#26Laser method unlocks 3,000-Kelvin thin-film synthesis for quantum materials
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#27Call of Duty movie arrives on June 30, 2028
Anna Washenko — April 17, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT
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#28Are we getting what we paid for? How to turn AI momentum into measurable value
VentureBeat — April 17, 2026, 03:55 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#29Global warming causes Colombian glacier to disappear
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 03:50 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#30Blackmagic Camera for iOS now has a companion Watch app
Steve Dent — April 17, 2026, 03:45 AM PHT
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#31Elite MBAs still influence who reaches the top of corporate America, study shows
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 17, 2026, 03:40 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#32Meta is giving Threads on web a redesign that finally adds direct messages
Karissa Bell — April 17, 2026, 03:29 AM PHT
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#33The European Commission wants Google to share search engine data with competitors
Anna Washenko — April 17, 2026, 03:27 AM PHT
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#34Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation
Julie Bort — April 17, 2026, 03:20 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#35OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
Lucas Ropek — April 17, 2026, 03:18 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#36Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media
Jon Brodkin — April 17, 2026, 03:08 AM PHT
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#37OpenAI debuts GPT-Rosalind, a new limited access model for life sciences, and broader Codex plugin on Github
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — April 17, 2026, 03:02 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#38Live Nation says it will fight monopoly suit loss
The Verge — April 17, 2026, 03:02 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#39Fantasy RPG 'Crimson Desert' lets you stab your way up to space, showcasing a remarkably detailed cosmos
Alan Bradley — April 17, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT
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#40Europe’s Online Age Verification App Is Here
Valentina Neri — April 17, 2026, 02:54 AM PHT
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#41European police email 75,000 people asking them to stop DDoS attacks
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — April 17, 2026, 02:53 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#42Blizzard just made Overwatch’s best mode much worse
Kris Holt — April 17, 2026, 02:51 AM PHT
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#43The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
The Verge — April 17, 2026, 02:44 AM PHT
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#44OpenAI drastically updates Codex desktop app to use all other apps on your computer, generate images, preview webpages
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — April 17, 2026, 02:36 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#45Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product
Tim Fernholz — April 17, 2026, 02:28 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#46Playdate Season 3 is coming later this year
Cheyenne MacDonald — April 17, 2026, 02:13 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#47Ozlo’s comfy Sleepbuds are nearly 30 percent off in the run-up to Mother’s Day
The Verge — April 17, 2026, 02:10 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#48IEEE Entrepreneurship Connects Hardware Startups With Investors
Joanna Goodrich — April 17, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#49The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave — April 17, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#50The nine best ways to protect, customize, and accessorize your MacBook Neo
The Verge — April 17, 2026, 01:57 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#51The Ukraine war's deep impact on Metro 2039’s development, story
Kyle Orland — April 17, 2026, 01:50 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#52New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone
Jeremy Hsu — April 17, 2026, 01:32 AM PHT
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