2026-08-19

The 8 best fall foliage road trips in New England, ranked

The Kancamagus Highway, the Mohawk Trail — the specific routes, exact peak-timing windows, and roads worth the drive across all six New England states [...]

2026-08-19

Pokémon and Polaroid are collaborating on three new adorable cameras

The new cameras are prettier versions of Polaroid Now and Polaroid Go. [...]

2026-08-19

A robot could eventually conduct your blood draw at the doctor's office

The FDA has approved a first-of-its-kind automated blood draw device for outpatient settings. [...]

2026-08-19

Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops

Framework says it's replacing some out-of-warranty AMD mainboards. [...]

2026-08-19

Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google. [...]

2026-08-19

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be "technologically neutral." [...]

2026-08-19

The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket

"We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible." [...]

2026-08-19

Stripe declares we're living in the singularity and uses it as a reason not to IPO

In a letter to investors, Stripe declares January 1 the "beginning of the singularity" and uses that as a reason to stay private. Not that it needs one: revenue grew 41 percent in the first half of the year, and the company confirmed its $8 billion-plus acquisition of OpenRouter. Declaring the singularity is in vogue right now. Hassabis, Altman, and Musk all say it's already here.&l [...]

2026-08-19

Public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center after its cloud storage vendor goes out of business, losing over 70 years of archival materials and programming

A St. Louis PBS station bought cloud storage from a vendor that has now gone defunct and is now in a legal battle with its landlord for access to its own data [...]