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  • SpaceX is significantly expanding its revenue streams, reportedly making more from its AI ventures than space exploration and striking major deals with AI companies like Anthropic and Google, alongside continued Starlink growth.
  • The AI landscape is rapidly evolving, with open-weight models showing significant progress in catching up to frontier models, though concerns about safety gaps persist; meanwhile, Nvidia is demonstrating swift progress in industry collaborations.
  • Android app developers might be inadvertently leaking user location data to advertisers, highlighting ongoing privacy concerns within the mobile ecosystem.
  • Waymo is expanding its fully autonomous robotaxi service, opening it up to the general public in Dallas, signaling broader adoption of self-driving technology.
  • The burgeoning demand for AI and advanced computing is straining infrastructure, leading to significant investments in hardware like Tesla Megapacks and prompting regulatory actions, such as Texas halting new data centers due to energy concerns.

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  • Ted Lasso returns at an important time for Apple TV an hour ago by Andrew Webster
    Analysis, Apple, Entertainment, Report, Streaming, Tech, TV Shows

    2026 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Apple TV . Apple's streaming service has built out an impressive slate that spans returning favorites like Silo and Sugar to all-new hits including OnlyFans-inspired dramedies , terrifying comedies , and paranoid tech thrillers . But the most important release might be a feel-good sports sitcom. After what seemed like a definitive finale , Ted Lasso is back with a fourth season that doubles as a soft reboot for the show, mixing up familiar characters with a substantially new cast. And as Apple TV continues its push for a bigger

  • SpaceX is coming for T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon an hour ago by Thomas Ricker
    AT&T, Business, Mobile, Science, Space, SpaceX, T-Mobile, Tech, Verizon

    SpaceX is preparing to build a terrestrial mobile network to "acquire quite a few" of the customers now subscribed to T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. The message to compete head-to-head with the US carriers was delivered by SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and CEO Elon Musk during the Q&A section of the company's first earnings call. "The spectrum that we purchased from EchoStar does have terrestrial components, so we definitely intend to build out the terrestrial component," said Shotwell. "You will have not only the capacity from the satellites themselves, but you will have a buildout of the terrestrial, basically the hardware

  • Don’t screw this up, Marvel 8 hours ago by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Analysis, Comics, Entertainment, Film, Marvel, Report

    In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening weekend in Hollywood history . The feature has been a reminder of why Sony is probably never going to give up the Spider-Man film rights, and highlighted how Marvel Studios was smart to strike a deal to bring the character into its own films . But as successful as Brand New Day has been, the larger MCU has been stuck in a confounding slump for the past few years. And while this latest Spider-Man movie was truly excellent, it's

  • Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account 10 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    Apps, News, Privacy, Tech

    You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads , but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your linked devices. You can also choose whether or not to transfer an end-to-end encrypted copy of your previous messages to each newly linked device to mitigate the risk of devices that might be shared, lost, or compromised. The update is rolling out now with Signal version 8.20 on Android and version

  • AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat 11 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    AI, AMD, Business, News, Tech

    Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report , reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1 , and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday's earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company expects "data center segment revenue to more than double year-over-year in 2027," as well. At the same time, AMD's gaming revenue fell 31 percent compared to last year, to $779 million, as price hikes and component shortages slowed sales for the


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  • The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings an hour ago by Reece Rogers
    Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Say, What

    Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a growing wave of AI notetakers for the workplace.

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    Gear, Gear / Deals, Coupons

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    Gear, Gear / Deals, Coupons

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    Gear, Gear / Deals, Coupons

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