Marco Arment launched Unforgetful on August 14, 2026 — a $19.99/year iPhone, iPad, and Mac app that wraps Apple Reminders with persistent notifications that repeat until a task is completed or deleted, no ju...
Energy research firm Noreva warns that AI data center demand, slower supply growth, and rising LNG exports could push natural gas prices above $10 per MMBtu in some U.S.
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, at $0.75/M input tokens (half the price of 3.6 Flash) with significant benchmark improvements: DeepSWE v1.1 jumped from 49% to 65.3%, FrontierCode 1.1 ros...
SpaceX closed its $60 billion all stock acquisition of Cursor's parent company Anysphere on August 14, 2026, in what is widely considered the largest acquisition of a venture backed startup.
California's decade long ban on heavy duty autonomous trucks weighing over 10,001 pounds ended on April 28, 2026.
On August 14, 2026, Apple proposed a new commission structure for purchases made through external payment links in iOS apps, ranging from 5% for small developers to 15% for standard apps, as part of the ongo...
Anthropic began watermarking Claude text on August 2, 2026 using Google DeepMind's SynthID Text technique, which embeds an invisible statistical pattern in word choices that survives copy paste and light edi...
The video game industry has undergone a rapid, defensive restructuring around generative AI over the past year, driven by three converging forces: copyright unclarity that makes AI generated assets legally u...
A Netflix Portugal listing briefly showed three episodes for GTA 6: An Extended Look (23, 24, and 18 minutes), but the screenshot has been widely reported as tampered with—multiple outlets now call the leak...
The AI-driven memory chip shortage is one of the most consequential economic and geopolitical stories of 2026. It is pushing up consumer electronics prices worldwide, adding a measurable layer to UK inflatio...
A fire in a gunpowder compactor machine sparked a massive explosion at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant in Colleferro on August 13, 2026, but all 24 workers evacuated safely and no injuries were reported.
A 2026 study led by Vrije Universiteit Brussel and KU Leuven, published in Nature, finds that a software bug in a visualization library and incomplete reference data in older publications created a false imp...