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The White House Ships a Tetris Clone. Tetris Would Like It Deleted.•Tesla Ships the Cybercab Without Pedals or Mirrors, and Washington Notices Fast•Apple Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' Bowing to Trump's Executive Order•TikTok Pays $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case — One of the Largest COPPA Recoveries Ever•Ford Names Its Sub-$30K Electric Truck 'Fathom' and Bets the UEV Platform on It•Spider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $360 Million, the Biggest Domestic Weekend in Box Office History•Google keeps AdX, and the DOJ's antitrust win shrinks to a redline memo•Apple TV Hits $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Price Hike in Four Years•DHS Wants $103,265 Per H-1B Visa — and This Time It's Going Through the Rulebook•Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word AI Manifesto and Calls the Doom Crowd's Bluff•The White House Ships a Tetris Clone. Tetris Would Like It Deleted.•Tesla Ships the Cybercab Without Pedals or Mirrors, and Washington Notices Fast•Apple Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' Bowing to Trump's Executive Order•TikTok Pays $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case — One of the Largest COPPA Recoveries Ever•Ford Names Its Sub-$30K Electric Truck 'Fathom' and Bets the UEV Platform on It•Spider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $360 Million, the Biggest Domestic Weekend in Box Office History•Google keeps AdX, and the DOJ's antitrust win shrinks to a redline memo•Apple TV Hits $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Price Hike in Four Years•DHS Wants $103,265 Per H-1B Visa — and This Time It's Going Through the Rulebook•Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word AI Manifesto and Calls the Doom Crowd's Bluff•

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The White House Ships a Tetris Clone. Tetris Would Like It Deleted.

A taxpayer-funded arcade of Trump-branded browser games rips the mechanics straight from Tetris, and the company says nobody asked its permission. Property rights, it turns out, apply to government websites too.

By Marcus Oyelaran

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/ SEP 4

2:11 PM EDTTech

Tesla Ships the Cybercab Without Pedals or Mirrors, and Washington Notices Fast

9:03 AM EDTTech

Aqara unveils a full smart lighting lineup at IFA 2026 — no price tag attached

/ SEP 3

11:09 PM EDTTesla's Cybercab Launch Skips the Livestream, Keeps the NDAs

6:04 PM EDTTech

Lenovo's Rollable Laptop Stretches From 14 to 17 Inches, Price Not Included

At IFA 2026, Lenovo showed off the ThinkBook Project Swan, a business laptop whose screen unrolls on demand — proof the format is nearly ready for retail, even if Lenovo won't say what it would cost you.

By Iggy Malone

Anker Wants Your Security Footage to Stay Home, Not in Someone Else's Cloud

Nvidia ships free software that turns your spare laptop into a data center rack

/ SEP 2

Amazon Ships an AI Fraud-Checker Because Its Own Emails Look Like Phishing

Alexa for Shopping will now tell you if that 'your order shipped' text is real, addressing a scam problem that reportedly drives 360,000 support calls a year — no new law required.

By Naomi Feld

3:48 PM EDTTech

Google keeps AdX, and the DOJ's antitrust win shrinks to a redline memo

10:44 AM EDTTech

Acer unveils a gaming handheld that folds into a laptop nobody can actually buy

/ SEP 1

9:36 PM EDTApple Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' Bowing to Trump's Executive Order

5:54 AM EDTTech

Google Quietly Hikes the TV Streamer's Price by 50 Percent

No press release, no keynote — just a new sticker price. The device that replaced Chromecast now costs $149, and Google isn't explaining why.

By Iggy Malone

/ AUG 30

11:31 PM EDTTech

Valve Left an API Wide Open, and 12TB of PC Gaming History Walked Out the Door

/ AUG 29

12:48 PM EDTTech

Xbox Says Its Next Console Is Actually Several Consoles

/ AUG 28

11:46 AM EDTTech

Apple TV Hits $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Price Hike in Four Years

The subscription jumps $2 to $14.99 monthly and $20 to $119 annually, with Apple One climbing to $21.95 — the latest markup in a streaming industry that keeps finding new numbers to charge.

By Iggy Malone

2:06 AM EDTTech

Meta Patches The Loophole Behind Its 'Pervert Glasses' Problem, Ships A Billboard Too

/ AUG 27

Plaud's AI earbuds record your meetings, summarize them, and ship in September

/ AUG 26

2:03 PM EDTTech

Apple sets September 9 for 'Surprise and Shine' — and the foldable iPhone might finally be real

/ AUG 25

Instagram's First Draft Trims Your Reels Without Calling It AI

Meta's new auto-editing feature cuts pauses and silences from your clips — and the company is notably careful about the word 'artificial intelligence.'

By Naomi Feld

8:31 PM EDTTech

DHS Wants $103,265 Per H-1B Visa — and This Time It's Going Through the Rulebook

/ AUG 24

9:46 AM EDTTech

Chinese humanoid robots beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter record — then crash into a wall

/ AUG 23

9:52 AM EDTTech

The green-card process now sends push notifications

URPE Integral Services shipped an app that lets immigrants watch their own case move through the system in real time — a first for an industry that still runs on manila folders and unreturned calls.

By Iggy Malone

/ AUG 21

8:49 PM EDTTech

TikTok Pays $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case — One of the Largest COPPA Recoveries Ever

/ AUG 20

6:54 PM EDTTech

Roblox Signs Court-Enforceable Deal After Australia Finds Adults Still Reaching Kids on the Platform

/ AUG 19

11:41 AM EDTTech

Framework refreshes the Laptop 12 with new Intel chips, Linux out of the box, and a lower starting price

/ AUG 18

Robin Williams' kids reactivate his Instagram to fight the AI slop machine

Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams are turning their late father's dormant account into a verified archive of authentic clips and photos — a direct counter to unauthorized deepfakes flooding the platform.

By Naomi Feld

6:28 PM EDTTech

Apple rewrites its EU App Store fees — again — and this time it actually simplifies the math

9:22 AM EDTTech

Apple Leaks Its Own Camera AirPods Inside a macOS Beta

/ AUG 17

4:21 PM EDTTech

Sonos Ships iPhone Lockscreen Controls Two Years After Breaking Them

Live Activities support lands in the latest iOS app update — a feature Sonos quietly killed in 2023 and has been promising to restore ever since the 2024 app disaster.

By Iggy Malone

4:20 PM EDTTech

Germany's Cartel Office Catches Apple Tilting Its Own Privacy Pop-Ups in Its Favor

4:20 PM EDTTech

YouTube Rewrites Its View Counter to Match TikTok — and the Numbers Will Never Look the Same

4:19 PM EDTUber bets on Zipline drones to hit 1 million daily Eats deliveries by 2029

/ AUG 14

Google lets you strip the sparkle off AI content — the invisible watermark stays, whether you like it or not

A new toggle in Gemini and Flow makes visible AI watermarks optional. SynthID and C2PA metadata remain embedded and cannot be turned off.

By Naomi Feld

5:39 PM EDTTech

Netflix Shuts Down Night School Studio Six Weeks After Calling Its Game a Top Performer

/ AUG 13

Microsoft Merges Its Two Copilot Apps and Kills Podcasts, Group Chat, and Deep Research Along the Way

/ AUG 12

Amazon turns Twitch into a training dataset — opt out or you're in

Twitch quietly defaulted every streamer's content into Amazon's generative AI pipeline. The chief product officer's explanation for why it isn't opt-in is at least honest, which is more than you can say for the framing.

By Naomi Feld

/ AUG 11

ChatGPT and Gemini Both Cross 1 Billion Users — But the Numbers Are Not the Same

Anthropic Embeds Invisible Watermarks in Claude Text — and the Fine Print Is Already Complicated

/ AUG 10

4:23 PM EDTZuckerberg's $300M Yacht Was Closer — A Replica Steamship Did the Job Anyway

4:22 PM EDTTech

Boeing Sells Its eVTOL Bets to Archer Aviation, Takes a 16.5% Stake in Return

Wisk Aero, SkyGrid, and Insitu are all heading to Archer in a deal that lets Boeing refocus on its 6,200-plane backlog — and still keep a seat at the autonomous-flight table.

By Iggy Malone

Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word AI Manifesto and Calls the Doom Crowd's Bluff

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