26 Jun 2026
The Morning After: Prices Rocket Up On Xboxes, MacBooks, iPads And More
The RAM crunch is crunching. Engadget As we were warned , that pesky AI boom and the resulting demand for memory-hungry data centers are hitting consumer tech. And it's hitting it hard.
Mat Smith
2026
26 Jun 2026
The Very Best Prime Day Deals We’ve Found (And Counting)
Here’s the dealNew deal for day 4: A slick, rugged beach tote Marki Williams/NYT WirecutterThis waterproof, tough-as-nails tote is ideal for wet gear. Its puncture-resistant shell withstands abuse from...
Nathan Burrow
2026
26 Jun 2026
BMW’s New Robot Is Sorting Car Parts in South Carolina
BMW Group is putting Figure AI’s next-generation humanoid robot, Figure 03, to work at Plant Spartanburg, where it will sort and sequence logistics parts after its predecessor spent nearly a year proving itself in the body shop.
@hboeriu, Horatiu Boeriu
2026
26 Jun 2026
In Loving Memory Of Om Malik, Friend, Writer, Venture Capitalist, And Ever The Believer
In Loving Memory Of Om Malik, Friend, Writer, Venture Capitalist, And Ever The Believer
Benjamin Clymer
2026
26 Jun 2026
'The cult of Elon': SpaceX investors grapple with volatility amid big swings
Rollercoaster. That's probably the most accurate word to describe SpaceX's opening two weeks as a public company. The stock surged for several successive days following a record-breaking IPO, briefly overtaking both Amazon and Microsoft in terms of market cap and rising more than 60% on the initial share offering price of $135. But the good times weren't set to last. Daily drops of 5% and 4% were…
Kai Nicol-schwarz
2026
26 Jun 2026
From bit to qubit. The future of computing is quantum
In 1968, when the film and the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey were released, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke imagined one of the most iconic machines of science fiction: HAL 9000, the supercomputer that governs the spaceship Discovery. Equipped with a very sophisticated artificial intelligence, HAL talks with the astronauts, understands language, makes autonomous decisions and shows emotions,…
INFN
2026
26 Jun 2026
Amazon's retail signals now optimize streaming TV ad deals through FreeWheel
Amazon Publisher Cloud on June 19, 2026 introduced Outcome Optimizer, a new capability that applies Amazon's shopping, browsing, and streaming signals to programmatic guaranteed deals running inside FreeWheel's ad server - giving streaming TV publishers a mechanism for demonstrating measurable advertiser outcomes without modifying existing workflows.
Luis Rijo
2026
26 Jun 2026
Interpretable abstractions of artificial neural networks predict behavior and neural activity during human information gathering
Main Decisions should be based on evidence. Once sufficient evidence has been sampled, the agent can decide which option to select (Fig. 1a , top). But in addition to guiding the choice, evidence should also simultaneously be used to evaluate whether there is sufficient information to warrant a decision or whether further information must be sampled (Fig. 1a , bottom) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . When…
Matthew F. S., Rushworth
2026
26 Jun 2026
Why SpaceX is the McDonald’s of AI
Have you seen “ The Founder ”? It’s the story of McDonald’s and how Ray Kroc (played by Michael Keaton) transformed the company from a local burger joint to a global landlord.
Mike Elgan
2026
