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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 FastApple Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' Bowing to Trump's Executive OrderTikTok Pays $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case — One of the Largest COPPA Recoveries EverFord Names Its Sub-$30K Electric Truck 'Fathom' and Bets the UEV Platform on ItSpider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $360 Million, the Biggest Domestic Weekend in Box Office HistoryGoogle keeps AdX, and the DOJ's antitrust win shrinks to a redline memoApple TV Hits $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Price Hike in Four YearsDHS Wants $103,265 Per H-1B Visa — and This Time It's Going Through the RulebookZuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word AI Manifesto and Calls the Doom Crowd's BluffThe White House Ships a Tetris Clone. Tetris Would Like It Deleted.Tesla Ships the Cybercab Without Pedals or Mirrors, and Washington Notices FastApple Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' Bowing to Trump's Executive OrderTikTok Pays $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case — One of the Largest COPPA Recoveries EverFord Names Its Sub-$30K Electric Truck 'Fathom' and Bets the UEV Platform on ItSpider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $360 Million, the Biggest Domestic Weekend in Box Office HistoryGoogle keeps AdX, and the DOJ's antitrust win shrinks to a redline memoApple TV Hits $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Price Hike in Four YearsDHS Wants $103,265 Per H-1B Visa — and This Time It's Going Through the RulebookZuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word AI Manifesto and Calls the Doom Crowd's Bluff
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/ SEP 4
2:11 PM EDTTech

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

NHTSA opened a federal audit into Tesla's driverless Cybercab days after launch, questioning whether the company skipped required safety exemptions instead of asking for them.
9:03 AM EDTTech

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

/ SEP 3
11:09 PM EDTTech

Tesla's Cybercab Launch Skips the Livestream, Keeps the NDAs

6:04 PM EDTLenovo's Rollable Laptop Stretches From 14 to 17 Inches, Price Not Included
/ SEP 2
3:48 PM EDTTech

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

A federal judge ruled Google illegally monopolized two ad-tech markets, then declined to force a breakup, leaving the DOJ with sealed behavioral remedies nobody has read yet.
10:44 AM EDTTech

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

/ SEP 1
9:36 PM EDTTech

Apple 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.
/ 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 EDTApple TV Hits $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Price Hike in Four Years
2:06 AM EDTTech

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

A firmware fix finally stops the camera from recording once you cover the LED mid-clip, but the billboard campaign is doing more of the messaging than the code is.
/ AUG 26
2:03 PM EDTTech

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

/ AUG 25
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

At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds. The finish line, however, is a padded crash barrier.
/ AUG 23
9:52 AM EDTTech

The green-card process now sends push notifications

/ 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

The updated 12-inch convertible starts at $699 pre-built — $100 less than before — and ships with Fedora by default because nearly 80 percent of owners were already running Linux anyway.
/ AUG 18
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.
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
5:39 PM EDTTech

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

Co-CEO Peters praised Unhinged's 'really solid numbers' on a July earnings call. The studio that made it no longer exists.
/ AUG 10
4:23 PM EDTTech

Zuckerberg'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

12:11 PM EDTTech

Google Opens the Play Store to a Rival App Store — And It Won't Be the Last

Aptoide Games is now downloadable directly from Google Play in the US, the first third-party storefront to land there after years of Epic v. Google litigation finally forced the door open.
/ AUG 7
11:31 PM EDTTech

One Night Only cut 'so much nudity' because theater audiences now flinch at on-screen sex

10:38 AM EDTTech

New Mexico hits Meta with $942 million in child safety rulings — and the platform is still appealing

/ AUG 6
5:41 PM EDTFCC kills the 39% broadcast ownership cap, opening the door to national TV consolidation
1:26 PM EDTTech

Ford Names Its Sub-$30K Electric Truck 'Fathom' and Bets the UEV Platform on It

The Fathom starts at $28,350, ships from Louisville in fall 2027, and is Ford's first ground-up EV design — built by a skunkworks team stacked with Tesla and Rivian talent to undercut a market where the average new car costs $50,000.
/ AUG 5
11:54 AM EDTTech

Disney+ pipes TikTok fan videos into its app and calls it a content strategy

/ AUG 4
7:10 PM EDTTech

Apple Pulled Telegram From the App Store Without a Phone Call — Durov Says That's the Real Bug

7:10 PM EDTTech

BMW Pushes Spider-Man Ads to Dashboards It Promised Would Stay Ad-Free

Owners who paid up to six figures for a BMW are now getting movie banner ads on their Control Display — less than three years after a senior VP swore the company would never sell that screen.
2:21 AM EDTTech

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $360 Million, the Biggest Domestic Weekend in Box Office History

/ AUG 3
5:25 PM EDTTech

Russia's Sanctioned Ghost Ship Runs Military Hardware to Mali Through the English Channel

5:10 PM EDTUCLA marmot researchers open an OnlyFans account because the NSF said no
12:58 PM EDTTech

Microsoft Names a Russian Hacking Campaign Targeting Hotel Wi-Fi — and the Malware Is Already on Windows PCs

Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, has been running CaptiveCrunch since early May, using compromised hotel networks to steal credentials and drop a remote-access trojan called CornFlake. Microsoft's advice: treat every guest network like a trap.
12:58 PM EDTTech

Ariana Grande Skips the Press Tour and Ships 'petal' Anyway

8:27 AM EDTTech

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Turns the Multiplex Into a $309 Million Billboard

8:25 AM EDTTech

Amazon Prime Video's August 2026 lineup includes Reacher Season 4, a Maia Reficco romance, and a Colson Whitehead adaptation

The platform is stacking its August catalog with a Jack Reacher return, a Mallorca-set romantic drama based on an Anna Todd novel, and 'Nickel Boys' — the film adaptation of Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning book.
8:24 AM EDTTech

Crypto data CEO allegedly drained $5M from his own startup, then deleted 194 expense records on the way out

8:22 AM EDTTech

The White House Is Using Bad Bunny and Drake to Soundtrack Its Deportation Videos on TikTok

4:09 AM EDTKCAL 96.7 fires its entire on-air staff and hands the mic to an algorithm
4:02 AM EDTTech

Mexico City's Air Quality Hits 'Bad' With 'High' Health Risk, August 1 Report Shows

The Dirección de Monitoreo Atmosférico's latest reading puts the entire Mexico City metro area in the red — and the numbers behind it are worse than the alert alone suggests.
12:03 AM EDTTech

Iranian Hackers Hit Water Systems in Michigan and Minnesota — and the FBI Is Investigating

12:02 AM EDTTech

A 42-Year-Old Childhood Obesity Theory Is Probably Just Wrong

12:01 AM EDTTech

Calvin Ridley lost 15 pounds in 24 hours and Chipotle is taking the blame

The Titans wide receiver opened up about a brutal offseason stomach bug. The fast-casual burrito chain has not been linked to any Cyclospora outbreak, but here we are.
12:01 AM EDTTech

Samsung Slaps a 7% Discount on the Galaxy S24 Ultra in Mexico and Calls It a Deal

/ AUG 2
7:52 PM EDTTech

Americans Are Having Less Sex, and the Data Says That's Mostly Fine

7:52 PM EDTThis source is about watering cacti, not technology
3:28 PM EDTTech

A Parasite From Mexico Wipes Out Demand for American Lettuce — and Nobody's Crop Was Even Infected

A cyclospora outbreak traced to iceberg lettuce from central Mexico has tanked lettuce demand by 30%, forcing U.S. farmers to plow perfectly clean crops back into the soil.
11:05 AM EDTTech

A Dallas startup rents humanoid robots by the hour — and Trump's China tariffs are already complicating the roadmap

2:53 AM EDTTech

Schools Stopped Teaching Heroes. TikTok Filled the Gap.

/ AUG 1
10:36 PM EDTTech

Disney+ Cancels Wonder Man After Promising a Second Season It Never Made

The show earned strong reviews, an Emmy nomination, and 618 million minutes of viewing in its debut week. Disney+ greenlit a second season in March and then quietly walked away.
7:29 PM EDTTech

26 Armed Groups Now Run 95% of Venezuela's Southern Mining Territory, NGO Finds

7:27 PM EDTTech

Amazon México puts ASUS TUF Gaming laptops on sale at up to 37% off

7:26 PM EDTTech

Miami's University of Miami Runs a $5M Accelerator That's Quietly Becoming the On-Ramp for Latin American Founders

7:26 PM EDTTech

Iran-Linked Hackers Hit Water Systems in at Least Seven U.S. States

The FBI and EPA confirm intrusions into industrial control systems at water treatment plants — no contamination yet, but CISA is already telling operators to pull the plug on internet-connected controllers.
7:25 PM EDTTech

Amazon México Is Selling Back-to-School Notebooks and Calling It News

7:24 PM EDTTech

Truth Social Launches a $100,000-a-Month API and Wall Street Is Already Paying

7:22 PM EDTTech

Suspected Iranian Hackers Hit Water Systems in Minnesota and Michigan — and the Feds Still Won't Say Who Did It

Cyberattacks on more than 30 Minnesota water utilities have spread to nine Michigan systems. Iran is the working theory. Nobody is saying so officially.