• Motorola's new Signature 27 has it all if you can stomach the $1,600 price tag
• Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
• 2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini
• Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
• Nintendo's biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business
• Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
• Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
• VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
• AMD's record quarter: Data center business doubles, while gaming craters
• Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
• After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
• Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control
• People say they want small smartphones—the Enough Phone will put that to the test
• Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
• What I learned driving the Slate electric truck prototype
• The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
• California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
• Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
• NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
• Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors
| • Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
• Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
• ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Sources: Apple plans to raise ~$7B from its first investment-grade bond offering in more than a year to fund share buybacks, dividends, and capital expenditures (Bloomberg)
• Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
• The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touching it is not very ergonomic and lack of Apple Pencil support is weird (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)
• MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)
• United Airlines is rolling out a custom native Spotify seatback app across its fleet, letting users log into their accounts, powered by Starlink's Wi-Fi (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
• Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers show personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are trying to cancel their subscription (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
• Agility Robotics begins trading on the Nasdaq under AGLT after a SPAC merger, the first dedicated humanoid robotics company to go public in the US (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and "rationalism", and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman (New York Times)
• Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Sources: Micron suspends construction of its $3B to $4.5B Fab 11E facility in Taiwan, set for 2028, due to mounting uncertainties over a local labor dispute (Bloomberg)
• Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the "official" US restaurant delivery partner for Amazon Prime subscribers, after previously partnering with Grubhub (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
• Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually, with 5.1% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026; Claude is rapidly catching up to ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
| • WhatsApp is taking on Partiful with expanded Events feature
• 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 First Drive: Big displays meet big V8s
• Apple iMac M6 review: Faster, more expensive and deeply in need of a refresh
• MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: Lighter, brighter, but the touchscreen doesn't add much
• MacBook Pro M6 review: A slight upgrade, but still the most accessible MacBook Pro
• Spotify is coming to United's seatback screens
• OpenAI says it will protect local resources and report on the impact of its data centers
• Amazon teams with Uber Eats for new Prime perks
• Switch 2 sales fell by almost 40 percent after Nintendo increased prices
• Sony is selling more PS5 games but still struggling to meet console demand
• Snap has more than 30 million paid subscribers across Snapchat+ and other plans
• Pangram expands its AI detection tools to video and images
• Xbox is testing two new controller options for Cloud Gaming
• Nintendo's main Switch cartridge supplier is leaving the ROM business
• God of War Laufey is delayed until May 20
• Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV
• Bluetooth is going to get a lot faster in 2027
• Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million on the midterms and lost big-time
• Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms
• Apple Music's upcoming feature will let you record yourself doing karaoke
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