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Xiaomi Announces Foldable iPhone Rival — Xiaomi today officially announced the 18 Fold, its first wide-format foldable, at a product event in China, two days before Apple is expected to unveil its own first foldable iPhone. The Xiaomi 18 Fold uses a similar wide-folding design…

RTX's Pratt & Whitney Canada advances hybrid-electric technology development — Ground testing of flight-standard engine and propeller for RTX Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstrator begins in Quebec LONDON, July 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough International Airshow– Pratt &…

Airbus launches new flight test programme for Wing of Tomorrow — Airbus is launching a new flight-test campaign to evaluate the performance of high-span wings for next-generation single-aisle aircraft.

A New Day Announce New EP 'Held Under An Incandescent Sky', Share Single — The metalcore revival continues! Right now, we’re deep in a wave of very, very young bands like I Promised The World and Holder finding big audiences with a studied, sincere version of the heavy,…

A big win for Android interoperability – Open Home Foundation — Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming — Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem

Alexander Zverev beats Botic van de Zandschulp to reach US Open semis — Alexander Zverev's rocky road to start the US Open turned into smooth sailing to the semifinals.

Silent speech with ultrasound — Aleph — We trained a model to predict speech from ultrasound video of the tongue, no speaking required. It reads open text, generalizes across people, and reaches a 15.6% word error rate on open-vocabulary speech.

Meta AI launches Muse personal agent, including a new mobile app for iPhone - 9to5Mac — Meta AI just launched a brand-new iPhone app called Muse from Meta. Similar to Grok Bot in presentation, Muse is...

Anthropic users are taking the company to court over Max subscription terms — A new class-action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misleading advertising about Claude usage with its top-tier plan.

Steffen’s Polyhedron — Greg Egan — Steffen’s Polyhedron by Greg Egan

Pixelated 099: Should we be worried about the Pixel 11? — On this week's episode of Pixelated, Damien, Abner, and Will look at the latest Pixel 11 leaks and Google's new Fitbit Air.

GitHub - ttsiodras/3D-on-a-ZX-Spectrum-48K: Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K — Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K - ttsiodras/3D-on-a-ZX-Spectrum-48K

All about electric motors with no rare earths — As a pioneer of electric motors using no rare earths, Renault Group is unique on the automotive market, a position reasserted for strategic reasons.

PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity — Raising important questions about ownership

LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices — “It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”...

jank now has its own custom IR — The jank compiler has a new super power. With that, we push jank to the limits to see who has the fastest fibonacci in the west.

Christian Haschek's blog — Personal blog of Christian Haschek

Inside BYD: CT Scans of a Battery Cell, Switch Panel, Charger, and Key Fob from the EV Banned in America — BYD sold 4.6M vehicles in 2025, but Americans can't buy one. We CT scanned four components from its lineup to reveal what vertical integration looks like at the part level.

Google rolls out AI-powered voice capabilities for Gmail, Docs and Keep — Google makes its suite of voice tools available for Gmail, Docs and Live - at least if you're a paying customer.

4 new Ryobi tools coming this fall that you need to see — Capable new tools coming this fall.

Wall Street Week | Debt & Consequences, Defying Fiscal Gravity, Hollywood Gets Democratized — This week, Chrystia Freeland talks with the former finance ministers of the Netherlands and Germany about what it takes to bring spending under control. And, are US deficits now a…

My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI Cable — It turns out that a _very_ long HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2 and Bazzite on a second drive was all I needed to get a comfortable couch gaming experience.

‘Pervert glasses’: Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses grows — From clubs to courts, Meta's smart glasses are raising privacy concerns and facing backlash. Places like Seattle's 5 Point Cafe have banned them and even Meta has made changes.

OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again… — Get $500 in Hyperagent credits to build agents that can ship real work - https://hyperagent.com/invite/FIRESHIP500 OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit, this time at the hands of Apple. In today's video, we'll take a look at exactly…

TechAscent - DuckDB - Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure — A well-written, *FAST* data science database for your laptop.

Do Retention Ponds Actually Work? — An overview of the engineering behind stormwater ponds ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering Errata: 5 acres is about 2 hectares. Sorry for the conversion error! Part p

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis | Anubis — After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I…

Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence | Coming Fall 2026 — Meet Googlebook: A new kind of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Built with heavyweight power and perfectly in sync with your Android Phone. Sign up for updates and stay in the know.

Luke Benstead / picophysics · GitLab — GitLab.com

Your September 2026 Horoscope: This Month's Thorny Emotions Will Be Hard to Escape—Here's How to Navigate Accordingly — Professional astrologer Steph Koyfman reads your monthly horoscope—and spells out how it may shape your travels.

732 bytes of Python just borked every Linux machine on earth… — CodeRabbit's new Slack Agent lets you manage your team's agentic workflow right in Slack - https://coderabbit.link/fireship-agent A 100% reliable logic flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel and an AI tool wrote an

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for EasyPrint and PrusaSlicer - Original Prusa 3D Printers — For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the color

Alcaraz is back -- and a threat to repeat as US Open champ — On Monday, Carlos Alcaraz returned from injury after fourth months away -- and looked like he could defend his US Open title.

Disruption with some GitHub services — GitHub's Status Page - Disruption with some GitHub services.

Cursor ditches VS Code, but not everyone is happy... — Try Blacksmith for free to run your GitHub Actions 2x faster - https://www.blacksmith.sh/ Cursor 3 just introduced its own frontier model that's been suspiciously dominating all the trust me bro benchmarks. But it turns out

Inside Nokia’s Race to Catch the iPhone and Android Wave — How the iPhone and then Android killed the feature phone

The Frame that we never chose | Cleo El Rahi | TEDxSSCC Kfarhbab Youth — At 16, we're expected to make choices that shape our future while living in a world that keeps changing. This speech explores the pressure of expectations, the fear of choosing wrong, and the courage to red

At least 5 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as US envoys visit Moscow — Ukrainian armed forces were ordered to follow a three-day ceasefire as US envoys visit Moscow, before trip to Kyiv.

How To Crush an Egg with Your Bare Hand — New CrunchLabs toys are available in stores now!

Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in

Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge — The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed.

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground — I love geocells ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering Sometimes it’s not all about more massive concrete slabs or the brute strength of steel, but just…

China wants more robots but not fewer workers — A human-first approach to automation

How to compromise your system with a job interview — The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at…

Robot demos have a dirty little secret... — Omnigent is an open source meta-harness to run all your AI agents in one place. Try it free - https://bit.ly/4fXzeo8 I spent last week at MIT's CSAIL lab learning where the frontier of robotics actually is. Here's my…

From Yeti to Igloo, These 15 Coolers Are Seriously on Sale Right Now — Hunting for a cooler? Check out these 15 radical bargains and make the most of end-of-summer sales.

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 | DARPA — Historic VENOM milestone demonstrates scalable AI development capabilities for the operational fleet.

AEW 'All In' 2026: Livestream details, storyline guide — Everything you need to know before one of the biggest pro wrestling events of the year.

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling — 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

Securing services with Rootless Containers — Some tips to improve security in applications deployed as containers.

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“Chicken Shop Date” Ends a Legendary Run — Plus reduced beef regulations, the future of food startup Wonder, and more

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page — i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird

Can AI design circuit boards yet? — A look at what current models can build, where they fail, and how EEBench tests the electronics in simulation.

How We Could Reach Proxima Centauri B in 20 Years — Help us continue to turn down crappy sponsors: https://www.patreon.com/c/realengineering Thank you to my patreon supporters: Eric Lyness Claire Han C. Tran Casper Kroon Sasha Reid Javier Soto Ciarán Eric S. John…

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones — A startup, together with activists, has launched an open-source drone detection system that links data from participatin...

MouthPad: the hands-free touchpad — A trackpad worn on the roof of the mouth: hands-free control of your devices, driven by the tongue. From Augmental.

Iceland summons US ambassador over Trump's stars and stripes map — Trump's territorial ambitions have repeatedly strained relations with neighbouring countries.

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