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Rockstar Games just did something no game studio has ever done: it sold the premiere of the decade’s biggest reveal to a streaming service. The GTA 6 Extended Look premieres on Netflix on August 27, a full six hours before anyone can watch it free on YouTube. Fans are hyped, annoyed, and confused, sometimes all…
A smartphone just grew an arm. On 12 August 2026, Honor launched the Honor Robot Phone, the first handset with a motorized camera arm that folds out of the back, looks around, and films you on its own. It sounds like a render. It isn’t. In fact, the phone went on open sale in China…
Somewhere along the way, parenting picked up an unwritten equation. Every hour your child spends on a screen subtracts something from their brain. Cut the hours, save the mind. Then an eight-year screen time study from Finland tested whether that equation holds. It didn’t. Researchers at the Universities of Jyväskylä and Eastern Finland followed 260…
Jeff Bezos sat across from Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes in December 2013 and promised packages falling from the sky within five years. People laughed. Regulators didn’t budge. But thirteen years, two drone generations, and one federal air-carrier certification later, Amazon drone delivery is actually happening. On August 19, Amazon announced that Prime Air, its…
Picture the scene: a federal courtroom in downtown Oakland, an eight-person jury, and lawyers for four states telling them that one of the most valuable companies on Earth built its apps to prey on “the vulnerability of young brains.” That’s how the Meta child safety trial opened on Tuesday, August 18, 2026. The coverage since…
A SpaceX rocket hit the Moon at 2:35 a.m. Eastern on August 5, 2026. The impactor was a piece of hardware the height of a five-story building, and it arrived at 5,400 mph. Nobody fired it there. Nobody steered it. Instead, physics did the flying quietly, over eighteen months, one gravitational nudge at a time….
Google’s AI empire changed hands in a single Wednesday morning and the Google DeepMind shakeup moved so fast that most people found out from a falling stock chart. On 5 August 2026, Sir Demis Hassabis, the Nobel laureate who has fronted Google’s AI effort for more than a decade, stepped down as CEO of Google…
AI security bugs are rewriting the rules of staying safe online, and the change fits into one number worth pausing on: 31 minutes. That’s how long it took an AI model to turn a freshly released security patch into a working weapon in a controlled 2026 test. Not 31 days. Thirty-one minutes. Welcome to the…
Your electricity bill has quietly become a data center electricity bill. But you never opened ChatGPT. You never trained a model. Yet the cost of the compute behind those things now arrives, in small increments, on the same statement as your fridge and your kettle. That’s the strange part of 2026. In fact, AI stopped…
Swipe down from the middle of your iPhone screen. For fifteen years, that gave you Notification Center. But in iOS 27, it gives you Siri instead and it is one of the iOS 27 features Apple never showed on a keynote slide. So the iOS 27 features that got stage time were all about Siri…