NASA Swift telescope rescue: a daring orbital first
Swift has watched the sky since 2004, catching some of the universe’s biggest explosions. Now it is sinking, and time is short. NASA is paying Katalyst Space Technologies about $30mn...
Reserve your WhatsApp username before it’s too late
Meta is finally preparing to roll out usernames on WhatsApp so users no longer have to share their phone number on the app. And users can reserve their preferred username...
Microsoft’s three-year .NET support window is too short for enterprises, developers say
TL;DRDevelopers say .NET’s three-year LTS support is too short, with half of deployed versions running unsupported and Java offering five years or more. A developer has reopened a long-standing complaint...
Leaker claims the PlayStation 6 costs Sony $960 to manufacture
A well-known leaker in the gaming hardware space claimed this week that it costs Sony nearly $1,000 to make its upcoming PlayStation 6 console. If true, the console's eventual retail...
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, just became a 100 million dollar business
TL;DRArena, the AI leaderboard born at UC Berkeley, hit 100 million dollars in annualized revenue eight months after launching its paid evaluation service. Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that started...
T-Mobile to auto-upgrade some legacy phone plans to higher-price plans
If you've been quietly riding out an old T-Mobile plan for the last decade or so, that ride is about to end.T-Mobile is automatically migrating thousands of customers on legacy...
AI made every individual stronger and every team more fragmented. Yimao Zhou is building the OS to reverse that
TL;DRYimao Zhou, 23-year-old founder of Emagen AI, believes today’s AI agent startups are accelerating individual productivity while ignoring the real bottleneck: team coordination. His product Cagen is an “OS Level...
How to buy Naomi Osaka’s Wimbledon dress
If you're dying to get your hands on Naomi Osaka's custom Wimbledon dress, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Nike has finally...
Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres
The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the...
Best Bose deal: Save $50 on Bose QuietComfort earbuds at Amazon
SAVE $50: As of June 29, Bose QuietComfort earbuds have returned to their lowest-ever price of $129 at Amazon. That's $50 off their list price of $179. $129 at Amazon...