Meet the 9 new emoji to help sum up 2026
Internet, meet the nine brand new emoji that will be coming to your keyboards.The Emoji Standard and Research Working Group at the Unicode Consortium will soon introduce nine new emoji,...
Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services
TL;DRApple raised AppleCare+ monthly prices by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, extending the wave of memory shortage price increases to services. Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+...
UK’s Ofcom releases report about age-verification law
Close to a year after the enactment of the UK's age assurance law, the Online Safety Act, Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, has released a report on its progress. The...
Thinking Machines Inkling: Murati’s first open-weight model
“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking...
Lego unveils SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom set
Firmly grasp it — your wallet, that is. Lego unveiled two new SpongeBob Squarepants-themed building sets this week, its first in nearly 15 years. The new Lego Icons SpongeBob SquarePants:...
Neko Health raises $700M and heads to New York
Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova,...
A standalone Xbox Ally X20 OLED is coming soon
Asus will sell a standalone version of its upcoming OLED Xbox Ally X20, according to a report from The Verge, walking back earlier plans that would have required buyers to...
Chai Discovery raises $400M as AI drug discovery booms
Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery...
Gunnar marks ‘Tomb Raider’ 30th anniversary with Lara Croft-inspired blue light glasses
Tomb Raider is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, marking three decades since Lara Croft first strapped on her thigh holsters and went searching for ancient artefacts around the world.To...
Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site
Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, money it will spend putting more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first...