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Starlink has started charging a $10 monthly rental fee for hardware in a shift away from its longtime practice of selling hardware to customers for a one-time charge. Starlink residential ordering pages now show an upfront hardware cost of $0 and a monthly kit fee of $10, similar to the
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* Scientists fear AI dependence could slowly weaken independent astrophysics reasoning and mathematical intuition * Graduate researchers increasingly rely upon AI systems for difficult coding and analytical scientific work * Astronomy journals are struggling with rising volumes of machine-assisted scientific paper submissions AI systems are rapidly transforming astrophysics research, leaving many scientists uncertain
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The startup touted a production-ready breakthrough in solid-state battery tech, but the claims collapsed under scrutiny. In January, there was a lot of hype around an announcement from Finnish company Donut Lab: It claimed to have created the world's first production-ready solid-state battery. The Donut battery, marketed as
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TL;DR Sony announced the Crystal LED UNIFY, a 135-inch all-in-one dvLED for boardrooms, installable in one hour by two people, shipping early 2027. Sony Electronics announced the Crystal LED UNIFY, a 135-inch all-in-one direct-view LED display designed for corporate boardrooms and university lecture halls. The display, model ZRL-135SG, ships
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TL;DR FCC filing patterns suggest Valve’s Steam Machine could launch on or before June 29, matching the Steam Controller’s regulatory timeline. Valve’s Steam Machine, the compact gaming PC announced in November 2025, could launch on or before June 29 based on a pattern in the company’
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TL;DR GM partnered with Peak Energy on sodium-ion batteries and expanded into grid storage with Redwood Materials and LG Energy Solution. General Motors is pushing into energy storage for data centres and the electrical grid, announcing a sodium-ion battery development partnership with Peak Energy, a lithium iron phosphate supply
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The state of New York could be about to set a precedent in the US as it passes a temporary ban on the construction of data centers with an energy demand of 20 megawatts or more for one year. Numerous other states, cities, and counties across the US have proposed
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Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere's North Mini Code, which launched Tuesday, generated three times the output tokens of comparable models in independent testing, a
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Apple’s new Siri AI, unveiled yesterday at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2026), may look like a consumer product story on the surface. But for enterprise developers and IT leaders, the bigger news from WWDC26 is that Apple is turning Siri into a systemwide AI interface
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Barista Kajetan Grzelczak prepares pastries at the Andon Café in Stockholm on April 27, 2026. It looks like any other coffee shop, but this Stockholm cafe is entirely run by an AI chatbot - with a human barista following orders. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP via Getty Images ByCamille Tuutti, Freelance Tech
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An encounter with a great white shark is undoubtedly a “thrilling” experience, considered especially rare in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The latest sighting, which has attracted media attention and made headlines around the world, occurred during a dive in the Strait of Sicily carried out by volunteers from
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Salesforce cuts staff amid acquisition spree and $50 billion share buyback The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago Salesforce is undergoing another round of layoffs, its second this year, according to a filing with California’s Worker Adjustment
