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Computing

Samsung's Q2 Earnings Guidance Points to a Chip Recovery That Is Actually Happening

Samsung Electronics has released its earnings guidance for the second quarter of 2026, and the figures are worth paying attention to even before the ...

7 July 2026 · 3 min read
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Phones

Samsung's July 22 Unpacked event: what's actually landing

Samsung confirmed its next Galaxy Unpacked for 22 July 2026, expected to bring the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8, plus new Galaxy ...

7 July 2026 · 2 min read
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Policy

Cloudflare just gave every website a switch to cut AI off from its content

Cloudflare's new AI crawler policy blocks training and agent bots on ad-funded pages by default from September 15, 2026, unless site owners opt out.

7 July 2026 · 4 min read
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AI

AI Schools for Rich Kids: Inside the Tutoring Trend Splitting Education

There's a new status symbol among a certain set of American parents, and it's not a particular school or a tutor with Ivy League credentials.

6 July 2026 · 4 min read
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AI

Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk to New Users — and It's About AI

Amazon has announced it will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, its long-running crowdsourced labour platform.

6 July 2026 · 4 min read
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News

Astronomers Found a Third Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter

A third galaxy with little to no dark matter has been confirmed with the Keck Observatory, sitting in a strange linear chain that standard models ...

6 July 2026 · 3 min read
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EVs

Google's Fitbit Air Is a Screenless, 12-Gram Band With a Week of Battery

Google's Fitbit Air ditches the screen for a 12-gram band with about a week of battery life.

6 July 2026 · 2 min read
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News

GTA VI Pre-Orders Are Live and the Hype Machine Is in Full Effect

It's finally happening. Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders are now live, and the gaming world has responded with the kind of collective enthusiasm that ...

6 July 2026 · 4 min read
Featured image for: How AR Glasses Like the Xreal R1 Fake a 171-Inch Screen Without a Headset
News

How AR Glasses Like the Xreal R1 Fake a 171-Inch Screen Without a Headset

How do AR glasses work? Xreal's R1 projects a 171-inch virtual display at 240Hz from lenses the size of normal spectacles. Here's the optics behind ...

6 July 2026 · 3 min read
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News

Trump Memecoin Investors Lost 3.8 Billion Dollars. Here's the Full Picture.

The numbers are in, and they are stark. An analysis published this week found that investors in the Trump memecoin collectively lost 3.8 billion ...

6 July 2026 · 4 min read
Featured image for: How AR Glasses Like the Xreal R1 Fake a 171-Inch Screen Without a Headset
News

How AR Glasses Like the Xreal R1 Fake a 171-Inch Screen Without a Headset

How do AR glasses work? Xreal's R1 projects a 171-inch virtual display at 240Hz from lenses the size of normal spectacles. Here's the optics behind ...

6 July 2026 · 3 min read
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AI

Alibaba Has Banned Employees From Using Claude Code, and the Timing Tells a Story

Alibaba has reportedly told its employees they are no longer allowed to use Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant.

5 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Cybersecurity

A Linux Kernel Bug Called Bad Epoll Lets Any User Become Root

CVE-2026-46242, nicknamed Bad Epoll, lets an unprivileged Linux user jump straight to root. No malicious click needed. Here is what to patch.

8 September 2026 · 3 min read
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Buyer's Guide

The Best Budget 4K Monitors in 2026

The best cheap 4K monitors in 2026, from a 250 pound 144Hz value pick to a big 32 inch curved screen. Honest picks for every desk.

10 September 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now the Default Model for Every Free and Pro User
AI

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now the Default Model for Every Free and Pro User

Claude Sonnet 5 became Anthropic's default model for Free and Pro users on July 1, running agentic tasks near Opus 4.8 at a lower price.

5 July 2026 · 3 min read
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AI

Google Made a Fourth of July Ad About AI Helping Write the Declaration of Independence

Google released a Fourth of July commercial this week that depicts an AI assistant helping someone draft what appears to be an early version of the.

5 July 2026 · 3 min read
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AI

Google's AI Buildout Drove a 37 Percent Jump in Its Electricity Use Last Year

Google consumed 37 percent more electricity in 2025 than it did in 2024. That is not a number that appears buried in a footnote.

5 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Science

The Largest Gravitational Wave Catalog Ever Just Added 161 Black Hole Collisions

Astronomers released the biggest gravitational wave catalogue yet on 1 July, adding 161 black hole collisions and reviving the primordial black hole ...

10 September 2026 · 2 min read
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AI

Midjourney Is Asking Hollywood to Come Clean About How It Uses AI

Midjourney has made an unusual move: the AI image generation company is asking Hollywood studios to publicly disclose how they are using AI in their.

5 July 2026 · 3 min read
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Storage

NAS vs Cloud Storage in 2026: What Changes When You Own the Box

NAS gives you speed and control, cloud gives you convenience. Here is the real 2026 tradeoff and the setup most privacy conscious people land on.

10 September 2026 · 2 min read
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Space

NASA Launched an Emergency Mission to Save the Swift Observatory From Crashing to Earth

The Swift Observatory has been one of NASA's most productive space telescopes since its launch in 2004.

5 July 2026 · 4 min read
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News

The White House Quietly Deleted Thousands of Energy Conservation Pages During a Heatwave

The timing is the kind of thing that would seem heavy-handed in a political thriller, but it happened in reality.

5 July 2026 · 3 min read
Featured image for: Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now the Default Model for Every Free and Pro User
AI

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now the Default Model for Every Free and Pro User

Claude Sonnet 5 became Anthropic's default model for Free and Pro users on July 1, running agentic tasks near Opus 4.8 at a lower price.

5 July 2026 · 3 min read
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AI

AI is quietly gutting entry-level tech jobs, and this week's jobs report shows the strain

Tech layoffs have hit 142,000 in 2026, with roughly 88,000 US cuts tied to AI. The roles vanishing first are the entry-level rungs, and that is a ...

4 July 2026 · 1 min read
Featured image for: AirDrop and Quick Share both have unpatched flaws that let strangers push files at your phone
Gadgets

AirDrop and Quick Share both have unpatched flaws that let strangers push files at your phone

Six issues were disclosed across Apple AirDrop and Android Quick Share that could let a nearby attacker drop files on a device. Here is the simple fix ...

4 July 2026 · 1 min read