TL;DR: Stuff Your Kindle Day is live on July 17-18. Summer Solstice, hosted by Stuff with Fantasy, is offering fantasy books for $0.99 or less. Stop what you’re doing — Stuff Your Kindle Day is back. Once upon a time it felt like we were shouting about these free giveaways every week, but between Prime…
You never know when you’re going to have to bug out on short notice. The politics of the moment are less than predictable. Disasters never strike on schedule, and few stores stay open for a wildfire or an insurrection. As of early 2026, wildfires and the resulting chaos look especially likely in the American West…
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm. It might be the first deal to put up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips built to run already-trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models in…
Google Play will open catalog access to third-party US Android app stores on July 22, following a court order tied to Epic Games’ antitrust case. The post Google’s Android App Store Shake-Up Starts July 22 appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link
Big day for insider trading in the White House, with a staff teleprompter investigated for allegedly making nearly $100,000 betting on Donald Trump’s speeches. Gabriel Perez is accused of using prediction market platform Kalshi to place bets on the words the president would use in his addresses. The scandal headlined late night shows on Thursday,…
Some companies want their humanoid robots to fold your clothes. Others want them in the workplace. Sankaet Pathak and his startup Foundation Future Industries have a slightly different goal: produce an all-American robot supersoldier. Pathak, Foundation’s CEO, says his company plans to start giving its humanoids lethal capabilities soon, although he declined to share specifics….
U.S. beverage maker Coca-Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and that it’s shutting down its operations for the foreseeable future. The multinational giant said in a disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Fairlife dairy company was hit by ransomware and that its production systems are affected. The company…
Meta’s AI glasses are arriving faster than regulators can respond. New York’s courtroom ban highlights the growing privacy concerns that countries like Singapore may soon have to address. The post Singapore’s AI Glasses Boom Meets a Privacy Reckoning appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you watched 2000s basketball. As we’ve shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.”…
The brand iRobot launched the first Roomba robot vacuum back in 2002, and popularity for the handy devices skyrocketed from there. Countless competitors have emerged, but Roomba is still going strong. Its latest models have all the new features we love, from doubling as a vacuum and a mop to fantastic navigation and suction. The…
