09 Jul 2026
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser
ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s standalone desktop browser, is being sunset in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app.
Zac Hall
2026
09 Jul 2026
iPhone Ultra Rumors: The Most Credible Leaks, Price And Expected Release Date
Apple's first foldable phone is looking more and more real. Reports of an iPhone Ultra have floated around for years, but momentum is building for 2026 to be the year the company launches a foldable iPhone with that name.
Sam Rutherford
2026
09 Jul 2026
Trump cheers Gwynne Shotwell as Musk's SpaceX No. 2 gives $325M in stock to Trump Accounts
President Donald Trump praised SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell on Thursday after she and her husband announced an undisclosed SpaceX stock gift to Trump accounts that the president said amounted to $325 million.
Mia Osmonbekov
2026
09 Jul 2026
Did you see it? Viewers in North Carolina get glimpse of SpaceX launch
by Dean Hensley Thu, July 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM Viewer Robert Allison sent in this photo to Chime In of the SpaceX launch on July 9. (Photo courtesy of Robert Allison via Chime In) HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Shortly after the SpaceX launch at 5:25 a.m. on July 9, people across western North Carolina started sending in their photos capturing the rocket and its vapor trail.
Dean Hensley
2026
09 Jul 2026
Humanoid robot with dynamic facial projection unveiled in Geneva
A new project in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics was unveiled at the "AI for Good Global Summit" held in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the Operative Information Center-OMM, the humanoid robot, developed by the startup "RB Labs" and dubbed "Robert the Robot," has garnered attention for its unique ability to project the faces of various well-known figures.
Afət Ziyadqızı
2026
09 Jul 2026
Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created
Long the leading light of the industry, Nvidia has had a bad couple of months. Bloomberg has the ugly details , but the upshot is that the company’s stock price has fallen 15% since its peak in May, even as projected revenue continues to grow.
Russell Brandom
2026
09 Jul 2026
Apple Ends Restores for iPhone 5c, iPad Mini, and Other Legacy Devices
A repair shop tech plugs a bricked iPhone 5c into a Mac and hits Restore. It fails — no useful error, no path forward, just a process that used to work and now doesn't. That's the new reality as of early July 2026: Apple has stopped signing the baseband firmware — the cellular modem component — for several legacy 32-bit devices, according to reports from 9to5Mac, and MacRumors, corroborated by…
News Desk
2026
09 Jul 2026
Apple Exploring Ways to Run Much Larger AI Models Directly on iPhones
Apple has held meetings with PrismML about ways it could use the startup's technology to run much larger AI models directly on iPhones, according to The Information.
Joe Rossignol
2026
09 Jul 2026
Humanoid robots just removed a gallbladder in a live surgery
Next time you go in for a surgery, will your doctor be a five-foot tall, 60 pound humanoid robot named Surgie? It very well could be! A team of surgeons and engineers at University of California San Diego just successfully completed the first ever pair of surgeries during a preclinical trial using teleoperated humanoid robots.
@mashable, Matt Binder
2026
