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SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and is raising enough money to likely make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He’ll have more wealth, on paper at least, than the economies of nations like Ireland, Sweden, or his home country of South Africa (CNN cites the International Monetary Fund saying only 20 countries have economies larger than $1.1 trillion), now largely based on the promise of a business based on launching AI datacenters into space. Follow along here for the latest updates. SpaceX is…
Want to add more natural light to a gloomy room without the expense and faff of major building work? The new Philips fake Skylight is here to save the day. A ceiling-mounted LED panel designed to recreate the appearance and feel of natural daylight indoors, it uses Signify’s NatureConnect technology to simulate the brightness, colour, and gradual changes of daylight throughout the day, while also creating the impression of looking up at a real skylight. The idea isn’t simply to make a room brighter, given that lightbulbs seem to have that particular segment covered quite well already. Instead, the system…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup will work toward developing an “artificial general engineer,” according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup, called Prometheus, aims to develop AI-powered engineering tools to aid in the design of physical products.The tools Prometheus intends to build could help develop physical products across several industries, including robotics, drug design, and manufacturing, the NYT reports. “Blue Origin is a perfect example of a company that could benefit from the tools that Prometheus is building,” Bezos tells the NYT. “Any company that is building sophisticated devices — like rocket…
It’s intended for camping, but BougeRV’s T1 light is so versatile that it also makes for a great summer travel companion that’ll continue to light the dark corners of your life long after you return. I used it for a few months during a recent road trip in my camper van, and it’s the light I keep reaching for again and again now that I’m home.The telescoping light features three articulating LED arms that together direct up to 3,000 lumens of white, warm, or red light in any direction you want. It can illuminate an area over 1,000 square feet…
The sun is out, the sky is clear. It’s time to get outside and disconnect — from work, at least. This summer, we’re looking at all the ways to upgrade our free time indoors and out, from smart lights for the backyard to great gadgets to bring camping to ways to wind down at the local library. Read the full article here
Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that’s very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human spotted by MacRumors, Craig Federighi said Apple’s new Siri won’t act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others.“As you may know, if you use many of the existing chatbots, they’re really focused on engagement to a large degree,” said Federighi who is responsible for software at Apple. “And sycophancy, right? They kind of want to pull you in. They might encourage you to reveal things about yourself, and then use that…
The luxury EV market has become one of the most surprising and exciting areas in motoring. And while Tesla may have kickstarted the electric car revolution, the traditional automotive establishment has been busy building some of the most extraordinary electric cars ever made. This year feels like a tipping point, with Ferrari unveiling its first ever electric car, designed with Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson, Rolls-Royce has refined its flagship electric super-coupé into something even more special, and Lucid is embarrassing hypercars with a saloon that hits 62mph in two seconds and still does over 400 miles on a…
Apple CarPlay Ultra has been a long time coming. Announced years before it actually landed in a production car, it finally made its debut in 2025 – exclusively in Aston Martin vehicles. Frustratingly, that exclusivity still stands as of June 2026, but the commitment from other brands is growing, and if you’re shopping for a new car with an eye on the infotainment experience, this is an important list. Here’s everything you need to know… What is CarPlay Ultra, exactly? Think of it as CarPlay, but turned up to eleven. The original CarPlay was already transformative – it replaced your…
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Following a knife attack in the city on Monday, Musk declared support for Restore Britain, a hard-right populist political party that advocates for large-scale migrant deportation in the UK. He reposted statements from party leader Rupert Lowe calling for “a vast number of people” to be forced out of the country, as well as a promise from Lowe to “prosecute officials and politicians who knowingly placed dangerous third world savages in our communities.” “This is the way,”…
Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED TV, or a laptop just to find out that you could have gotten it for cheaper somewhere else just a few days or weeks later. That’s why, in order to keep customers happy and prevent them from shopping elsewhere, some retailers offer price-matching policies in which they promise to match a lower price found elsewhere. That kind of information comes in handy no matter the time of year, but it’s especially helpful during shopping events like Amazon’s Prime Day 2026 sale, which kicks off June 23rd and…
Amazon’s rolling out a free software update for Echo Hub devices that gives the home screen a much-needed update to the interface it launched with in 2024. It had already added Alex Plus AI support, but the new interface has a cleaner, fully customizable layout that fits more smart home info and controls on the screen than the previous version. The Echo Hub is also getting access to Ring AI’s Video Search feature that lets you use natural language to search through your smart home camera footage, as well as Alexa Plus summaries of detected camera events. These are the…
Three years ago, when the women’s World Cup kicked off in Australia and New Zealand, my social feeds were in a strange place. Twitter had just transformed into X, newcomer Threads was seemingly ascendant, and places like Bluesky had yet to garner much momentum. It left me with an odd, and admittedly silly, dilemma: I had nowhere good to post dumb jokes during games. And now, as the next World Cup is set to begin across Canada, the US, and Mexico, not much has changed.There were a lot of problems with Twitter even when it was at its most popular,…