2026-07-15

Lucid shares plunged 40% on a bankruptcy rumour from an EV blog. The denial came hours later.

Lucid Motors stock fell more than 40% at one point on Tuesday and was halted for volatility multiple times after an EV-focused publication reported the company was considering going private or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The stock recovered some losses and closed down 16% at $4.62 a share. The report said Lucid asked […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-15

Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

The notice read like housekeeping. Take screenshots while you still can, ByteDance told Doubao users, or export the text. On 15 July the custom agents they had built stopped working, and what is left is a read-only archive with a closing date attached: 15 October, after which the company says the data will be handled […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-15

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light." [...]

2026-07-15

Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. [...]

2026-07-15

New Windows 11 update is a big one — these are my top 4 features, including the ability to pause updates indefinitely

Pausing updates for longer is a vital ability in certain situations, and I'm glad to see Microsoft finally acknowledging this. [...]

2026-07-15

'Ineffective and useless': the UK government is proposing a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, but there's an easy loophole

On top of the complete ban on social media for under-16s, older teens will have restrictions put on their apps. [...]

2026-07-15

Hold up, Mint Mobile is currently selling the Google Pixel 10 for just $150 — and you don't even need to trade in

Mint Mobile's just listed yet another record-breaking deal on an Android flagship — this time it's the Google Pixel 10. [...]

2026-07-15

"The difference between launching now and launching never": How vibe coding is turning small business ideas into functional apps in record time

Could vibe coding help small businesses overcome bottlenecks in app development? [...]

2026-07-15

The Apple FaceID Co-Inventor Building a Frontier AI Model for the Human Brain

Gidi Littwin's new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as a blood test. [...]