2026-08-18

The best U.S. lake towns to visit once summer crowds are gone, ranked

Fall foliage over the water, warm-enough temperatures without the July crowds — the lake towns that trade peak-season chaos for a quieter, often more beautiful version of the same trip [...]

2026-08-18

Peacock is raising streaming prices for the fourth time in four years

The NBCUniversal streaming service is hiking monthly plan prices by $1 to $3, effective Tuesday for new and returning subscribers [...]

2026-08-18

Google and the U.K. are using AI to reroute flights and reduce climate-warming contrails

The 30-month Operation Blue Skies program will test altitude adjustments of up to 2,000 feet over the North Atlantic to prevent heat-trapping clouds from forming [...]

2026-08-18

Nike stock sinks to a 12-year low as Wall Street turns bearish on the turnaround

JPMorgan cut Nike to Underweight on Monday as a disappointing sales report from rival On Holding added pressure to the athletic footwear sector [...]

2026-08-18

Canada is in talks to avoid 50% tariffs before a midnight Wednesday deadline

Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump spoke Monday as negotiators remain in Washington, with auto tariffs emerging as a key sticking point [...]

2026-08-18

Saulius Lazaravičius, VP of Product at Hostinger – Interview Series

Saulius Lazaravičius, VP of Product at Hostinger, is an experienced technology and product leader whose career spans more than two decades across software engineering, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and product development. He began as a software engineer before co-founding a B2B SaaS company, where he helped build a transportation management platform from the ground up. He later formed and led th [...]

2026-08-18

Etched Raises $700M Series D at $21B Valuation to Ramp Inference Hardware Production

Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in a round led by Jane Street, the AI chip startup announced on August 18, 2026. The quant trading firm took the lead after testing and then buying Etched's hardware, and it now has one of the startup's racks running in its own datacenter. The round roughly doubles Etched's valuation in about a month. The company closed a $30 [...]

2026-08-18

Baidu’s revenue falls for a fifth quarter as ads keep sliding

Baidu revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter. The advertising business kept shrinking faster than the AI business could grow. The Chinese search company reported its results on Tuesday, with second-quarter revenue of RMB31.3bn ($4.62bn). That is down 4 percent on a year earlier and 2 percent on the previous quarter. Net income attributable to […]<br /> This story continues at The Next W [...]

2026-08-18

Scrapping your petrol car for An EV pays back In three years

Research published in Science finds that scrapping a petrol car in its first year and replacing it with a battery electric vehicle cuts emissions by 58% over 16 years, with carbon payback in about three years. The benefit does not hold for efficient hybrids, very low-mileage vehicles or the dirtiest electricity grids. Retiring a petrol […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]