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GitHub Copilot Just Got Expensive, and That's the Point
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The Search Box Is Dead. Long Live the AI Prompt.
After 25 years, Google's iconic text box is gone. It has been replaced by a multimodal AI prompt in a defensive move to keep you from ever needing to leave Google for an answer.
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A Famous Accident, Now Available as Firmware
William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops were the sound of tape turning to dust. A new Eurorack module proceduralizes that decay, bottling an analog ghost for anyone with a soldering iron.
The Sub-$20,000 Used EV Is Here, and It's a Gamble
First-generation electric cars have hit bargain-bin prices. A Volkswagen ID.4 for under $20,000 looks like a steal, until you see the battery recall notice and the 15% degradation report after one year.
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The Robot Isn't the Point. The Controller Is.
We're obsessed with robot autonomy. The real money is in building better remote controls that let a human do the hard thinking from a thousand miles away. The interface is the actual story.
The Market That Never Sleeps Just Got a Hall Pass
The U.S. futures regulator says 24/7 trading is a feature for crypto, not a bug. It's also a privilege the old guard of finance might not get to share.
California Wants to Stop Publishers From Killing the Games You Buy
You bought the game. The publisher turned off the servers. A proposed California law says they now either have to patch it to work forever, or give you your money back.
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Pfizer's Drug Pipeline Now Flows Through China
Big Pharma's labs are running dry. To fill a pipeline worth billions, Pfizer is shopping for novel cancer drugs not in Boston or San Diego, but in Beijing.
China's War On EV Gimmicks Is Just Getting Started
The yoke steering and giant touch screens of China's EV boom are now under regulatory fire. This isn't a design trend; it's a safety correction with global consequences for every automaker.
Open Source Brains for Robot Bodies
Building a robot brain used to be a PhD-level project. Now it's closer to downloading an app. The hardware is still hard, but the soul of the machine is becoming a commodity.
France's Zombie Copyright Law Cost €82 Million and Caught Nobody
France spent €82 million on a copyright system that collected €87,000 in fines. The automated system failed, but the mass surveillance powers it created are very much alive.
Colossal's Artificial Egg Is a Great Demo, Not De-Extinction
Colossal Biosciences says it solved the chicken-or-the-egg riddle. What they actually built is a better Tupperware for bird embryos, backed by $620 million and a very good marketing department.
Signal Trace: Xreal Stabilizes Wearable Optics Matrix Through Google Ecosystem Alignment
Xreal secures strategic positioning within the Google hardware stack to solve the persistent power-to-weight friction impeding mainstream augmented reality deployments.