Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features Salesforce, the cloud software giant, has been remaking its business around AI, and at a small gathering in San Francisco on Tuesday, CEO Marc Benioff and his team unveiled the latest results of those efforts: an updated version of Slack, with a plethora of new AI features. The most significant of these is a serious...

Watch: Football fans in Gaza watch World Cup match from rubbleHundreds of football fans across parts of Gaza watched Tuesday's Argentina v Egypt World Cup game amongst the ruins of shattered buildings. Many waved flags for Egypt, which shares a border with the war-torn enclave and has been one of the mediators in ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel. The game ended 3-2 with Argentina...

4 Kitchen Tools That May Be Adding Microplastics to Every Meal You CookMicroplastics have turned up in places that would have seemed implausible just a decade ago: deep ocean water, Arctic ice, human blood, lung tissue and, as a 2026 study confirmed, the placenta. The picture that research is assembling, while still incomplete, is one of pervasive, low-level plastic exposure with health...

Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems In Brief Posted: 1:02 PM PDT · May 8, 2026 Image Credits:Intel (opens in a new window) Bloomberg has a deep dive this week into how Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is trying to rescue one of Silicon Valley’s most storied, and stumbling, chipmakers. It’s worth a read, but it actually undersells the...

Roborock's First Robot Lawn Mower Is HereRoborock is best known for its impressive lineup of robot vacuums, many of which have earned a spot on CNET's best list for their excellent performance and features. The company is new to the robot lawn mower market, at least in the US, launching the new RockNeo Q110H this week. With wire-free navigation, the RockNeo Q110H features full-band...