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Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-focused smartphone, but the Fire Phone's $170M flop, market saturation, and lack of clear differentiation make it hard to be optimistic about its chances.

Iran-Israel strikes on oil facilities push global energy markets toward worst-case scenario, with analysts warning of the largest supply disruption since the 1973 oil embargo.

A Nevada judge temporarily banned Kalshi from offering sports and election contracts, escalating the regulatory war over prediction markets between states, federal agencies, and the betting platform.

Tinder is rolling out 12+ new features including AI photo curation, astrology matching, and Double Date mode to win back Gen Z — trying to fix the dating burnout its own swipe design helped create.

A cyberattack on a car breathalyzer provider left thousands of DUI offenders unable to drive legally — a Kafkaesque situation where hackers imposed an indefinite driving ban through cloud dependency.

DoorDash's Tasks app pays gig workers to record videos of everyday activities to train AI robotics models — a micro-economy where human labor is reduced to training data for the machines that may repl

China approved the world's first commercial brain chip (Neuracle's NEO implant) for treating paralysis, racing ahead of US and European competitors with a comprehensive plan to dominate the neurotechn

Robert Malone, RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine advisor, claimed the entire ACIP panel would be dissolved — then retracted hours later as a 'miscommunication,' highlighting vaccine policy chaos under HHS.

NHTSA rejected a petition to recall 2.3M Teslas over one-pedal driving, ruling 200 incidents were driver error, while simultaneously escalating its investigation into Tesla's FSD system.

The US faces a chaotic weather year as a record-breaking West heat wave combines with forecasts for a strong El Niño later in 2026, compounding long-term climate change effects.

NASA is studying the explosive properties of methalox rocket fuel as SpaceX's Raptor and Blue Origin's BE-4 engines drive an industry-wide shift away from kerosene and hydrogen toward methane.

Halide's co-founder sued a former partner for allegedly taking the acclaimed iPhone camera app's source code to Apple, raising questions about Apple's relationship with independent developers.

As online age verification expands globally, lawmakers are targeting VPNs that circumvent restrictions, potentially creating a convergence of age verification and anti-VPN regulation that reshapes int

NASA's Perseverance rover used ground-penetrating radar to discover an ancient buried river delta in Jezero Crater, confirming the site as a prime location for finding signs of ancient Martian microbi

Deep-sea mining for EV battery minerals is gaining momentum despite scientific warnings about irreversible damage to poorly understood deep ocean ecosystems.

WordPress.com now supports MCP integration allowing Claude and ChatGPT to draft and publish blog posts via AI agents, with a draft-first workflow requiring human approval before publishing.

Microsoft is removing 'unnecessary' Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps (Snipping Tool, Photos, Notepad, Widgets) after user backlash against forced AI integration, part of a broader quality initiati

Google's AI Overviews are rewriting The Verge's headlines in search results, raising concerns about editorial integrity, attribution, and AI intermediaries displacing publisher content.

BYD unveiled EV charging tech achieving 10-80% in ~7-8 minutes, approaching gas pump convenience, but infrastructure rarity and grid capacity challenges may limit widespread adoption.

Prediction markets faced their worst week yet with Nevada banning Kalshi, manipulation allegations, and accuracy failures, as critics call them 'rigged and dangerous products.'