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“The 7.6-inch foldable screen arrives with a 4:3 aspect ratio, which minimises the black bars from the top and bottom of video. Hold the Galaxy Z Fold 8 upright, and that becomes a 3:4 aspect ratio, which is better for scrolling through web…”
“prices are now at an incredible 448% more costly than a year ago (before the memory crisis kicked off).”
“We are aware there have been some issues raised regarding the kiosk functionality in some limited cases, and we are working with Aramark to review these situations.”
“MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, is the biggest YouTuber in the world with more than 500m subscribers.”
“French football sensation Kylian Mbappe has been confirmed as the cover athlete for EA FC 27's Ultimate Edition and mobile version, continuing his reign as the face of EA's premier football franchise after his Golden Boot win at the 2026 W…”
“U.S.-based Google searches for 'reflecting pool' are up more than 5,000% from a year ago.”
“According to Samsung, this beefier battery can endure 26 hours of continuous video playback, although we'll need to put the handset through its paces ourselves to see if that's accurate.”
“TSMC which is going to raise the cost of its chip production by up to 10% next year... in these cases there could be up to a 15% hike.”
“Korean semiconductor exports nearly tripled during the first few weeks of July”
“It follows contestants as they play a series of games in the hope of winning a $5m (£3.7m) prize pot.”
“Mbappe takes the Ultimate Edition cover and the EA Sports FC Mobile cover. EA confirmed it across its official channels Tuesday morning.”
“When it's time to recharge, Galaxy Z Fold 8 supports 45W wired fast-charging, which should refill the foldable from 0% to roughly 50% in around 20 minutes. A full recharge promises to be finished in some 60 minutes.”
“Samsung has introduced new tandem OLED panels for Lenovo, Asus, MSI, and Dell laptops, with claims of up to 1,600-nit peak brightness in small windows. This will apply to laptops that have the latest DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certificatio…”
“Nvidia added 1.3% after disclosing it had acquired a 9% stake in Dutch cloud computing company Nebius”
“Booysen, originally from South Africa, also has her own channel on the site, TheaBeasty, with nearly 140,000 subscribers.”
“Jeff Sharma, EA Sports' VP of Franchise Strategy and Marketing, told IGN Middle East that Mbappe's club and country work has established him as one of the defining players of his generation.”
“Maximum brightness has been boosted to 3,000 nits, which should also improve visibility on the brightest days.”
“Notably, the push up to 1,400 nits certification is a '40% higher' brightness requirement compared to older single-layer OLED panels, which is ideal for bright rooms and environments.”
“In light of these developments, and in recognition of the important role employees have played in ASML’s success to date and will continue to play in the future, the Board of Management has decided to grant all eligible employees worldwide…”
“Earlier this month, India said it believed usernames might increase online fraud, impersonation and other crimes by allowing criminals to contact potential victims without disclosing their phone numbers. It also asked the company 'not to r…”
“FC 26 launched September 26, 2025, with early access a week out. A late-September Friday is where this franchise always lands.”
“This titanium-alloy film is under 30% of the width of a single human hair.”
“Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas, for 'Port Alpha', a planned shipyard designed to produce autonomous vessels at unprecedented industrial scale. The project is expected to attract more than $3 billion in private investment and begin…”
“Samsung offered nearly 75% of its employees a bonus of around $370,000 as the company benefited from the growing demand for AI infrastructure”
“Axon says it’s now in use by 600 police departments across the country and has helped write 600,000 police reports, saving an estimated 300,000 hours, according to its customer surveys.”
“Freely is already watched by over 1 million people across the UK, having doubled its growth from 500,000 viewers in roughly three months between September and December 2025.”
“Saronic is investing $300 million there to add 300,000 square feet of production capacity for its 180-foot Marauder autonomous vessel.”
“Its rival, SK Hynix, gave employees bonuses of about $477,000 this year and is reported to pay nearly $900,000 next year”
“Even though it was the first agency to test Axon’s Draft One, Manchester ditched it in 2024.”
“During the tournament, the platform grew to more than two million monthly active users and recorded its biggest viewing day since launch, highlighting its progress towards becoming the UK's largest TV device platform by 2030.”
“Currently available in early access, Waterpark Simulator has already been downloaded more than a million times on Steam, where it has an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' user rating thanks to hundreds of glowing reviews from players.”
“Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei announced in May this year that the company's employee profit-sharing payouts would increase by more than 30% on average this year”
“The same year, the Anchorage Police Department in Alaska also decided to stop using it, citing zero time savings.”
“forecasts from 3 Reasons, independent analysts who specialise in research about TV platform dynamics, suggest that Freely's popularity will continue to skyrocket, reaching 10.5 million UK households by 2034.”
“Now, it's finally coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S consoles with its 1.0 release on July 31, which also introduces a huge number of highly-requested features.”
“a long white banner carrying the names of more than 4,500 employees who had signed a petition demanding stronger protection against layoffs—a document the Alphabet Workers Union describes as the largest single piece of employee feedback Go…”
“Meanwhile "Hot Ones," the show where celebrities answer questions while eating progressively spicier chicken wings, has racked up more than 5.8 billion views and 3,000 videos.”
“rather than falling a predicted 10% between 2023 and 2025, the number of homes without broadband actually fell a whopping 30% and stands at 1.2 million today.”
“The tool is currently in beta, and pulls information from third-party sources to create AI-generated summaries of individual songs offering context and background.”
“Google cut 12,000 jobs in 2023 and has run several smaller rounds since, leaving employees bracing for the next notice.”
“The numbers back him up. Alex Cooper’s "Call Her Daddy" averaged 148 million watch minutes a month on YouTube between April 2025 and April 2026, per Tubular Labs data, also reported by The Wrap.”
“Freely has also seen a rise in the proportion of users returning to the platform daily, reflecting increasing loyalty to the platform, Everyone TV has confirmed to GB News.”
“According to The Hollywood Reporter, the song summary has been removed.”
“Since the campaign began, Google has offered voluntary exit packages to more than 70,000 employees—a program Pichai has publicly credited to listening to staff, saying it gives people agency.”
“Hisense has launched its PX4 Pro ultra short throw projector, initially demoed at CES 2026, for $3,999.99.”
““We built ‘About the Song’ because fans want to dig into the stories behind the music. It’s still in beta. The info comes from articles across the internet, and when something’s off, we move fast to fix it, like we did here. Getting it rig…”
“AWU, currently a minority union of around 1,400 members, says the pressure won't let up.”
“This premium device utilizes TriChroma RGB laser technology, projecting vibrant 80-200 inch images with 3,500 ANSI lumens and 118% BT.2020 color coverage.”
“A reveal later this year has been planned,”
“Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion in funding and announced a $12 billion round this week, valuing the company at $41 billion.”
“while pumping out 3,500 ANSI lumens, combined with a 7-level adjustable Iris lens and 6500:1 contrast ratio”
“Saber Interactive sources said the game's "best-case scenario" was a mid-to-late 2027 launch to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Star Wars, but a 2028 release window would align with the original 2003 game's 25th anniversary.”
“Bezos said the startup now takes up the bulk of his time, alongside work at Blue Origin and involvement in AI initiatives at Amazon.”
“Hisense calling the PX4 Pro the world’s first ultra short throw laser projector to get FreeSync Premium certification”
“The KOTOR remake was announced in 2021 and was originally being developed by Aspyr Media. However, development was paused for some time before the project was eventually handed over to Saber Interactive in August 2022.”
“Bezos said he initially joined Prometheus as an investor in late 2024. But as he watched the company’s early progress, he realized he didn’t want to remain on the sidelines... marks Bezos’ first formal operating role since leaving Amazon’s…”
“Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of 'The Odyssey' that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer”
“Yes, it is still in development. That's all I can say.”
“Fable CEO Edward Saatchi sees London's official audience across YouTube and Instagram exceeds 600 million views, rising to nearly one billion including reposts.”
“a new turn-based single-player game, Star Wars: Zero Company, from Bit Reactor will also launch this year on August 27”
“‘Gods Don’t Give Gifts,’ an AI-assisted anthology feature from Fable and director Zack London, better known as Gossip Goblin, opens in U.S. theaters on October 30.”
“as well as Fuse Games' Star Wars: Galactic Racer, which arrives on October 6.”
“He spent three years building an audience through hundreds of short films before attempting a feature, developing an interconnected world in which the stories share characters, settings and lore.”
“Two PlayStation video games sold more than 10,000 physical units in the US during the week ending July 11, 2026.”
“While I was in Bangalore for the conference a private Indian company, called Skyroot successfully launched its Vikram I rocket and delivered a satellite into low earth orbit”
“Seven have sold more than 100,000 physical units year-to-date.”
“It is for these reasons that the IEEE SpaceTech initiative was started this year. [...] IEEE can help with international consensus standards for space communications, traffic control and debris management in space, and on the use of AI and…”
“It's estimated for Requiem specifically that 27.8% of its 3.5 million copies sold came from physical discs.”
“Kodiak announced a multi-year partnership with energy tech provider Baker Hughes to target AI power demand with 1.8 gigawatts of behind-the-meter power.”
“an image posted by Kutkov claimed that the Starlink Mini 2 will come with a built-in battery. The original Mini uses an external battery, but by incorporating this into the body of the Mini 2, Starlink will be able to reduce the clutter as…”
“the company now owns an estimated 80% of the AI GPU market by revenue.”
“Kutkov says this cycle is dropping from the Starlink Mini’s 75% to a mere 11%, which could “result in lower uplink speeds,” the leaker believes.”
“U.S. community water systems could need $10 billion to $58 billion in new infrastructure by 2030”
“According to Kutkov, the Starlink Mini 2 will clock in at a slightly smaller size, with its measurements dropping from 236 x 276mm to 225 x 273mm.”
“daily demand from evaporative cooling can rise to six to 10 times the annual average during hot weather. For some planned facilities, the multiple can exceed 30”
“That's over 90,000 new tracks, all of which weren't made by people.”
“Large projects can draw more than one million gallons on a hot day, and some facilities under construction have received allocations of up to eight million gallons per day”
“as we heard in April that 44% of tracks were AI-made, and in December 30% of tracks were AI.”
“Without new efficiencies, the researchers estimate that U.S. water systems could need another 697 million to 1.45 billion gallons of peak capacity per day by 2030”
“Moving forward, Deezer will systematically take down AI-tracks used for streaming fraud, and those that haven’t been streamed for at least 6 months”
“A 2024 Berkeley Lab report estimated that all U.S. data centers, not AI facilities alone, directly consumed about 17.4 billion gallons of water in 2023”
“It projected direct consumption from hyperscale data centers could reach 16 billion to 33 billion gallons a year by 2028”
“Shaolei Ren of UC Riverside, who produced the 2024 estimate with the Post, now puts the figure closer to 15 milliliters for a GPT-4 prompt, including about five milliliters for on-site cooling”
“Sam Altman wrote that an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons, or roughly 0.32 milliliters”
“A 2025 benchmarking study, “How Hungry is AI?,” estimated less than two milliliters for efficient models across its test lengths, while some reasoning models exceeded 150 milliliters per query”
“Their model produced a water estimate of 519 milliliters, including both cooling and the water associated with electricity generation”
“It’s now valued at $1.2 billion with $168 in total funding, less than a year after Forbes first reported it was coming out of stealth with backing from the CIA’s investment arm In-Q-Tel.”
“Twenty’s software uses AI to run hacking campaigns simultaneously, automating the gruntwork of cyberwarfare. That includes identifying targets and carrying out reconnaissance, or deciding what to do once that target has been compromised.”
“Before next-generation AI was available, a cyber campaign against a single target could take months or years, Lin says. Now it’s much faster.”
“We’re trying to industrialize cyber warfare,” Lin says. “We're going from current processes that are highly artisanal to ones that can scale out industrially, where you're able to simultaneously prosecute hundreds of targets versus one at …”
“AI changes what is now possible on the offensive side, collapsing the time and effort it takes to run complex cyber operations,” he said in an emailed statement. “What once required weeks of specialized human work can run at software speed…”
“Lin says his firm uses whatever commercially-available model suits a given task, as well as any that its U.S. military and intelligence customers already operate. Khosla Ventures partner Chu says that the company should be able to weather …”
“Plus, thanks to Khosla’s investment in OpenAI, Twenty can now benefit from closer ties with Sam Altman’s $852 billion AI giant.”
“London-based Humanoid has become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, raising a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion valuation.”
“Humanoid has hired more than 50 veterans from Boston Dynamics, Sanctuary AI, Apptronik and 1X, Humanoid’s chief product officer Sotirios Stasinopoulos told me last month in London.”
“Humanoid says it has already run nine proof-of-concept projects across logistics, manufacturing and retail in the past year, with a tenth underway and plans to begin longer three-to-six-month commercial pilots at customer sites starting la…”
“More than 85 or 90% of the use cases can be covered by a wheel-based platform,”
“Stasinopoulos says Humanoid can achieve CE certification by next year with HMND 01, its wheeled platform.”
“Production is limited to 2,112 pieces. Hamilton says the number references the importance of 12 throughout Homer's Odyssey, which contains approximately 12,000 lines. In the epic, 12 ships sail to Troy, and Odysseus proves his identity by …”
“For Interstellar (2014), Hamilton created a prop watch that played a pivotal role in the story, allowing protagonist Cooper to transmit data to his daughter in Morse code from another dimension. The prop became so popular that Hamilton lat…”
