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Uber shows how your first air taxi ride could be booked
Uber is positioning itself as the booking layer. Joby supplies the aircraft and, eventually, the operations. The preview suggests that the companies believe they’re close enough to a working air service to start showing off the booking system. If air taxis are going to work at scale, the first challenge…
New Android app alerts you when someone nearby is wearing smart glasses
The Android app, Nearby Glasses, comes from Swiss sociologist and hobbyist coder Yves Jeanrenaud. It scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) activity associated with manufacturers such as Meta, Luxottica Group, and Snap – companies behind the most recognizable smart glasses on the market – and issues an alert if it…
OpenClaw creator says "vibe coding" is a slur against AI-assisted development
The term vibe coding is often used when developers rely heavily on AI tools to generate, modify, and refine code. The name comes from steering development by vibes while AI does much of the coding.
This Quake-style shooter fits in just 64KB
At first glance, QUOD is a typical Quake-inspired boomer shooter. Its four levels exhibit low-poly graphics from the mid-1990s, a handful of enemy and weapon types, id Software-style level design, and moody lighting. However, the entire game is contained within a single 64KB executable. The uncompressed version expands to a…
Washington tells Silicon Valley the Taiwan chip risk is no longer theoretical
The warnings, reinforced by recent Chinese live-fire drills around Taiwan and a classified industry report projecting an economic shock on the scale of the Great Depression if Taiwan’s chip supply is cut, have turned a once-abstract geopolitical worry into a direct threat to US growth. Yet for years, major US…
Apple set to launch touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro with Dynamic Island in late 2026
Apple has long taken the stance that touchscreens and laptops don’t go together – Cupertino will happily point you toward its iPad line for that sort of thing. But it seems that the company has finally changed its tune.
Death Stranding 2 on PC adds Guerrilla's Pico upscaler alongside DLSS and FSR
At minimum, the sequel to Hideo Kojima’s post-apocalyptic open-world delivery simulator requires a GeForce GTX 1660 or an AMD RX 5500 XT, but achieving 60fps at 1080p necessitates at least an RTX 3060 or an RX 6800. Death Stranding 2’s options menu will include a handheld graphics preset, optimized for…
Farmers are rejecting massive offers as AI data centers hunt for land
The scale of the new AI-driven demand helps explain the size of the offers. To support rapid growth in AI and cloud computing, tech firms are racing to secure what the industry calls “powered land”: large parcels with access to ample electricity, water and favorable zoning.
Watch Samsung Unpacked 2026: Galaxy S26 reveal starts at 10am PT / 1pm ET
Samsung is expected to reveal at least three phones in San Francisco today: the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. It seems that reports the company dropped plans for a Galaxy S26 Edge (and likely any future Edge models) following weak S25 Edge sales may have been accurate…
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